http://www.mobracer.com/blog Updates related to the MobRacer game Fri, 01 May 2009 04:46:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In case you haven't noticed already, missiles are now live in the races! For now, everyone gets three races for every race. We'll soon be rolling out the ability to customize your missiles too - so you can add more through the Shop. Enjoy - and let ... http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/04/weapons-go-live/ Our newest Jungle Fever level is now live!!! Enjoy the dark paths through the jungle, rollicking down the steps of the pyramid, and crossing the rickety rope bridge. Look forward to seeing you on it! http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/04/jungle-fever-goes-live/ We are really excited about rolling out our Jungle Fever level this week. However, we are also trying to get more of everyone's friends onto the site so that it is more fun to race. As such, we are going to make the Jungle Fever level available first to everyone ... http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/04/invite-friends-jungle-level/ We have just rolled out a 3D update with the following primary bug fixes and changes: 1) Game stops responding at the finish line 2) When the first player finishes a race, we have doubled the time for the remaining players to cross the finish line 3) We have the ... http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/04/3d-update-released/ [tylr-slidr userID="33847700@N07" groupID=""]http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobracer/sets/72157616545696783/[/tylr-slidr] So you asked for it, and we've been building it.  Here are some sneak screenshots of weapons we are adding into the game.  The first release of weapons will include missiles that you can shoot at karts that are ahead of you.  Right now we are thinking of ... http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/04/weapons/ Our newest level - Marsh Road - is now released.  Please let us know what you think - especially if there are any bugs or similar issues.  Thanks - and enjoy! http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/04/marsh-road-released/ All, we are going to be rolling out some team changes based on some feedback from the Forums. Specifically, we have had the emergence of mega-teams - some teams are >200 players in size!  Since only the top 10 players in a team count towards the team point totals, having hundreds ... http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/03/team-limits/ All, we've just rolled out a 3D update that should fix issues related to loader bars not showing up and getting stuck in races after they finish. Please let us know if there are still problems or if new bugs emerge. Thanks! http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/03/3d-game-update-2/ All, we've noticed that some people have started making fan videos for MobRacer on YouTube - and they're really great!!! We'd like to encourage this by setting up a YouTube video contest based on MobRacer. Here are the details of the contest: 1) Make a MobRacer-based video on YouTube. ... http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/02/mobracer-youtube-video-contest/ So some people thought our previous game trailer was more an overview than a trailer - e.g., it was too long. So we've made a shorter one. Let us know what you think of it! http://www.mobracer.com/blog/2009/02/mobracer-short-game-trailer/