So, we did it!

We created a freak’n multiplayer game on LD!

Here’s the first online match we had with 3 people:

Check out GridCars, made in around 72 hours (or less).
Make sure so get some friends or family together to play it, and let us know what you think!

If playing via the interwebs, the host should forward port 3410 on their router.
If that doesn’t work, try something like Hamachi.

You can easily make your own maps for the game – simply create one in your favourite modeller and export it as .stl.
To set up starting positions, have a look at the README on GitHub.

If you have any issues, let us know!

The game is currently set to allow up to 16 clients. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to test that yet.
But it works well with 4 players:

Tags: GridCars, jam, multiplayer

Hi everyone!

GridCars, our game, is a multiplayer game. We received lots of messages saying that people can’t play right now, because they have no one around to try it with.*

Well, no more excuses!

We have a dedicated server up and running.**

Join it by entering germanunkol.de as the IP address.

We will be online from 8:30 pm (now) until around 10 pm, UTC + 1 ***

The server will be left open afterwards, so go and join it!

Click here for more infos, downloads and to rate the game.

* I sincerely hope that this means your friends all just don’t have the time right now, or you don’t want to bother them with a game you know was made in 72 hours and is thus probably very unpolished – and not that all your game-programming has left you with no friends!

**To achieve this, we have done more work post-jam. We admit it. Basically, we stripped the game from graphics to be able to run it headless as a server. And we fixed a bug, which wasn’t really in the game but the underlying network engine. We admit that too. If you feel like that’s cheating – go play the original version! We won’t hurt you, but you’ll need to find a friend to try it with, and they seem to be rare these days.

*** That should be 2:30 pm until 4 pm ET

We have a four player game open, we’ll be online for about one hour!

Join now! ( <- Downloads and instructions on that page)

Dedicated server up and running! Join now!

Post-Compo, we set up a dedicated server for our game, GridCars. Check it out here!
You can join the dedicated server by using “germanunkol.de” as the IP-Address.

Make sure to send the link to your friends and play it with them for the most fun!

It will stay online for the time being, and we, the devs, will be online every now and then to play the game with you, if you have no one to try it with.

Screen of a 7-Player-Match on the server:

Make your own maps!

On another note, we’ve create an IndieDB page for the game. Track it to stay up to date with post-compo updates…
It also features a tutorial on how to add your own maps. If you come up with a cool one, make sure to send it to us (gridcars [at] gmail.com)!