I'm hosting a game on the US East coast since I can't find Superku's server. Anybody who wants to join me is welcome.

Doesn't work, port-forwarding?

Yeah, it's probably my firewall. Let me take a look.

EDIT: Ok, I turned off one of the firewalls on my gateway. You're free to give it another try.

EDIT 2: Still not working. Maybe you'd better just try another server.

No, same error, sorry

Server is back online.

Good Distinct rounds and online game modes are definitely on their way -- I just wanted to get out a working online version as fast as possible. Next version won't have those changes, but they're important and I'm looking forward to getting those working relatively soon.

I'm maintaining a to-do list here, btw, for the next version (0.2.2). It's mostly minor fixes and improvements to the kind of things that should be standard, with a couple of extras in there.
I'm glad multiplayer's going smoothly! Yes, bots should be an option in multiplayer. And yes, I need to get the icon to work in the taskbar. I think it has to do with my starter-file. Thanks for the great feedback
I'm afraid those won't come until 0.3. It will have a level-editor and a bunch of standard levels that would all be created with that level-editor. I'm hoping to have "premium" accounts have online profiles where they can store custom-made levels online.

I've been having the same problem I'm sure I've set up port-forwarding correctly, but I can't seem to host a game that people can join

Extra thanks to Superku for so much time hosting KarBOOM today and yesterday!!

Now I have to study for a physics test tomorrow And a maths and computers test the next day (computers will be fine -- just programming stuff). Then I'll be back onto preparing KarBOOM 0.2.2

Jibb

i want to play online, but no ones hosting

I noticed that when I get disconnected because the server's gone offline, the game menu appears AND the server-list appears again. So they're above each other, and I can never touch the one that's behind the other one.

To reproduce the bug: join a server, create a car (dunno if this part is important) and then wait until the server quits.

Thank you. Noted to be fixed in the next update

Jibb

G'day! Over the weekend I worked on a new explosion effect in KarBOOM. It's a shader applied to a perlin noise sprite that takes a whole bunch of parameters I can change whenever I want to make all sorts of cool explosions. Currently, it's used for a car blowing up, as seen in this video:
[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A45P1T80peU[/video]
Before the next version is released it'll also be used for the boost effect. By using different parameters, the boost effect will be more fiery, less smoky, smaller, briefer, and we'll see what else.

Here's a screenshot:


Jibb

PS: It would be really lovely if embedding youtube videos worked again