Lilith Walther, the genius behind that wonderful Bloodborne PS1 demake, has been arduous at work making Bloodborne—sorry, Nightmare Kart, altering the identify after a letter from Sony.
The entire fiasco, which pressured Walther to remake the sport’s shockingly giant forged of Bloodborne characters, delayed the entire thing significantly because it was meant to reach in January of this 12 months. “Lengthy story brief,” Walther wrote again when the information hit, “I would like to wash off the branding … that requires a brief delay.”
Effectively, mentioned delay is over. Not solely is Nightmare Kart now its personal legally-distinct factor with its charming distinctive character designs (not-Micolash has slightly tweety chicken in his head-cage, now), it is going to be launched for the low low value of completely nothing on each Steam and Itch.io.
Regardless of the non-existent price-point, Nightmare Kart looks like a full-fledged indie by way of content material. 20 racers, 16 maps, an honest-to-old-gods marketing campaign mode with its personal boss fights—whereas that PS1 demake was a enjoyable experiment, it looks like Walther and her group simply pumped as a lot nitrous into their engines as they may, making a full sport out of an thought I can solely assume was cooked up in a fugue state at 3 am.
🏁🩸INTRODUCING: NIGHTMARE KART🩸🏁Releasing for FREE 5/31/2024 on Steam and Itchio!!➡️ 20 Racers!➡️ 16 Maps!➡️ Legally distinct!➡️ Full marketing campaign mode w boss fights!➡️ VS Battle mode!💉 THIS NIGHTMARE WILL NEVER END 🐥#NightmareKart 🏍️ pic.twitter.com/XR5ury6kxlApril 2, 2024
The sport truly has 21 racers, technically, as Walther’s additionally put her personal fursona—Bunlith—within the sport. She’s unlockable by way of cheat code, as is secret bonus character custom. Actually? That is truthful, if I had an OC and I used to be making a kart racer, I would stuff ’em in there, too. That is the reward you get for making one thing rad as hell as a labour of affection, then giving it away for nothing.
Walther’s additionally been sharing the method of constructing Nightmare Kart legally distinct sufficient to be a unique selling point—beginning with the menu rebrand. She additionally mentions having to swap “the beginning ‘fansoftware’ joke brand out with a short lived texture, as we work out how we wish to organise the logos that can change it.”
Changed the beginning ‘fansoftware’ joke brand out with a short lived texture as we work out how we wish to set up the logos that can change it. I additionally changed the title announcement by @GetGianni to be the brand new title learn. pic.twitter.com/ZCdk7shZWzApril 2, 2024
Personally, I sort of need her to only hold it as-is—it might be bit for a completely bit-driven sport. Nightmare Kart will likely be doing donuts in your nearest gothic parking zone Might 31.