TOPIC:

Working to create an AI assisted lobby so even when there aren't many players online, a single person can still race with bots while waiting for others to join. The goal is to have the server always place a maximum of 5 bots in the server, and players take those slots away once there's more than 3 players.

5/24/2026 Update Push
Bot is appearing in lobby, and being pushed correctly through the network paths into the race, and the race remains alive. Bot is currently spawning with the same location, does have physics and movement, but does not yet have any sort AI functionality yet

That's awesome! I wonder why the AI has a ping lol.

unforunately I have basically started from, not quite ground zero, but pretty close. I kept running into a wall I just couldn't get past, so instead of building a custom server, I'm working to rebuild the entire game into multiplayer ready to bypass the ancient networking protocols. I'm afraid that by the time I'm done with this project it will be too late to be of any real use.