Yes, it’s been a long time since our last News update. Guess what? This ain’t a proper one either!
Well, no, that’s not completely true. We have bucketloads of stuff we would want to share with you, but before anything else happens, we need to do something Big and Important first. And that mysterious something is…
A major engine uphaul.
That’s right, folks! We’re currently updating NCG to a completely overhauled engine that will totally rock your collective socks off and dazzle you with all kinds of sweet, sweet performance magic! But, getting the engine ready for release takes a whole lot of work.
At the moment the process is well on its way, but as it currently is, the uphauled engine runs slower than the previous one! You can probably understand why we want to optimize it more before letting all y’all play with it. We mean, no matter how awesome we say the boosted engine will be, it still wouldn’t be all that impressive if this thing, full of spiffy thingamagummits and sparkly thingamajigs and swanky thingamabobs, hiccuped on the field of glory like an old steel horse wheezing its last breath. So, we want (and will) tweak it more, and then some more, and when it’s properly polished and runs like a Mustang just broken in, we’ll release it and let you go nuts. It won’t be that long, but it won’t be just yet, either. Sorry!
But there is something we can talk to you about: a dirt race track that’s currently in development. What you’re looking at is its prototype version — clips from real photos that are glued together to create a semblance of what we’re aiming for. The end result may be drastically different, but we figured you lot might enjoy this glimpse behind the scenes of the track creation process.