New Video! Fallout gameplay mode and 3 Items!

Thanks for patiently waiting, (well most of you) we have reached another milestone in the development of the game. This video was from an online playtest we held to test out a fresh gameplay mode called "Fallout" (where the object is not to fall out of the level) along with our very first implementations of 3 different items. There are also a few new characters thrown in and some other things we have added along the way. You might also notice another new thing for Zero Gear, sounds! We have been working with a mysterious character from the icy north to provide Zero Gear with sounds. We will reveal all about him in another post soon! Enjoy the video!


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Hikari - In Game Flash GUI

It seems lately the Holy Grail of game GUIs has been Flash. Scaleform is an example of a commercial GUI based on Flash. This does not work for indies because of the cost.

Hikari is a great option for Ogre users. It was just released yesterday and I already have it integrated into Zero Gear. It is still new and needs a little work but thanks to it being open source (LGPL), we should start seeing a lot of support from the community.

P.S. One thing to mention is Hikari only works on Windows.

I like turtles

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Join our Steam Group!

We want Zero Gear to be available on Steam when it is ready to be unleashed on the world. Until that happens, you can show your support and desire to see a game like Zero Gear on Steam by joining our Steam Group! Brian and I are usually in the group chat room as well, so stop by and say hello!

everybody <3's pandas!

At least that is what I gathered becuase when people would suggest characters for the game, a panda was always one of the first blurted out. So I made a panda character! Here it is!

icon a go go

Today I was working on a design for an icon for the game executable, this is much larger version of the design but I think it scales down pretty well

Zero Gear forums launched!

While moving the Zero Gear site to it's own server (no more piggybacking off DevBump!), I also have set up a forum for Zero Gear supporters and fans to talk as well as a place to organize future tests and events. Go register!

First big internet test a grand ole party!

We had our first big (8 people) internet test last night. There were a few issues that we were able to fix while the test was going on thanks to a Subversion build deployment system. The biggest issue was the lack of bandwidth on our home internet connections which caused lag.

So we are shopping for a service to host game servers for future tests. Amazon EC2 seems perfect for us. Does anyone have any other suggestions? (We need full access to the server to configure the game server and other services). If you do, post a comment please!

And now for something completely different...



This little guy wants you to join our Steam Zero Gear group.

P.S. If you like music I recommend Grand Ole Party!