KarBOOM

Updated to KarBOOM Preview 6:

=Preview 6=

Features:
- Boost meter displayed below kars. You can switch it off, or make it more transparent. The boost bar shows you how much “boost juice” you have. It glows along with your wheels when you charge it, and it refuels automatically when you’re not boosting.

Tweaks:
- Increased gamepad deadzone to avoid kars turning and cursors drifting when players aren’t touching the left analogue stick.
- Tumbling physics when upside-down changed to accommodate moving level in the full version.
- Menu options that end the round or the game (restart, end round and quit) or make important in-game commitments (placing a bid or passing in Gamble) now prompt the user to confirm their decision, so as to avoid mistakes on the player’s part.
- Upon placing a bid or passing, gamepad cursors are moved away from the bidding buttons, to avoid accidental interference from other players.
- Cloud backdrops added. Because clouds.
- Sandstorm Showdown starts a little bigger, so kars that don’t start moving within the first fraction of a second don’t immediately fall to their destruction.
- Explosions are brighter and… er… “glowier”.
- Changed the default score limit, time limit, and life limit better, and added more options to score limit.
- “Hold the Flag” mutator name changed to “Flag”, since the same mutator serves slightly different purposes depending on whether you’re playing KarBall or Klassic.
- Camera is more intentional about keeping players on-screen.

Bugfixes:
- The random ante can now fall on any human player, rather than all but one.
- The random ante no longer reveals the bidding menu too early after pressing “rematch”.
- Prevent that duplicate explosions can be created when a kar is given more than one reason to explode in one frame.
- Bots no longer completely surrender in one-on-one when the opponent has possession of the Battle Ball.
- Bots are less likely to just run themselves off the map when they’ve got the flag.

Updated to KarBOOM Preview 5:

=Preview 5=

Features:
- Gamble game mode added, along with a level for it (which will also be available in klassic in the full version).
+ Requires at least 2 human players, since bots can’t bid.
+ Bid on how long you think you can last against everyone else.
+ The highest bidder becomes the “target” for that round – take them out!

Tweaks:
- Scores are now shown in the order players appear in the player select screen (left to right, top to bottom).
- Games can’t be started without at least two players (bot or human), or at least two human players in Gamble.

Updated to KarBOOM Preview 4:

=Preview 4=

Features:
- Team option added to Klassic mode (what’s “klassic”? See tweaks).
- Charge your boost during the startup countdown! Careful – you can still blow up by over-charging, and if you release the boost before the countdown finishes you could lose some or all of your charge.
- Bots now kinda know how to play Hold The Flag, and are a bit smarter about self-preservation!

Tweaks:
- Sandstorm Showdown now attempts to destroy its players twice as fast.
- Free For All renamed “Klassic” because it’s now (thanks to the “team” option) not necessarily a free-for-all.
- Timer now uses a decimal point instead of a colon between seconds and milliseconds.
- Increased menu opacity.
- Changed menu headings to all-caps to be more consistent with the rest of KarBOOM’s presentation.
- Removed the misplaced header on the victory screen.
- Kars no longer blink as though getting points for knocking out kars in Showdown.

Bugfixes:
- Prevent that keyboard controls can’t be accessed by clicking the right arrow.

Updated to KarBOOM Preview 3:

=Preview 3=

Features:
- Free For All mode added:
+ Win by Time Limit, Score Limit, or Life Limit
- Hold The Flag mutator added:
+ Combine with Battle Ball, and the flag-holder can get points twice as fast by having the ball and the flag at the same time.

Tweaks:
- Startup camera quite a bit less janky.
- Battle Ball now only available in Free For All.

Bugfixes:
- Prevent that kars leave behind dust emitters when removed between rounds. Hopefully.
- Prevent that kars in menu have their weak spots visible when ending a round prematurely.