Latatoy Simple Race

hello!, I want to present the project in which I working now..
is a racecar game, rol/arcade mode...

are already working for three months, and i think soon, i go to finish this project...

some features of the game:

skins for cars, and rgb colors for cars
you can change some parts of the cars
car setup
cars download
track editor
make a full track in less than 2 minutes
you can download items to add to your track editor.
change track colors, with, camber, heigh, make bridges.
share your track on web
tracks can be like F1, or nascar or acrobatic.
you can choose the weather..
animated boxes team..
IA, a little agressive and very hard

multiplayer option:
four player in one computer..
lan or online (to slow for now) working on that

i using ode for physics

i hope soon we can upload some videos on youtube..

any comment, critic, advice, etc, is very welcome!.

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this is my first big project, i want to thanks this forum and the people who allways answers the all question i post...

i hope you enjoy..

homepage : www.simplerace.com.ar (not finish yet)
(copyright by latatoy srl.)
www.latatoy.com / www.latatoy.com/noflash

regards..
santiago



the main menu (3D)

It looks very nice indeed. You have some good art skills! I like the menu screen too.

I'm looking forward to this! For three months work you have an impressive list of features.

looking very good....how did you make the race track in?

Very nice latatoy! Great graphics and the sky is beautiful...really adds to the scene. If you need testing with a wheel I own a Logitech MOMO.

Looks very nice.

This looks awesome!

How are powerslides working out for you in ODE? I used to have problems with those and gave up...probably due to my perpetual Blitz3D noobism.

Don't know what it plays like but it looks like an awesome piece of work, well done!

thanks people...!!
it's nice to know that you are liking this game..

i'm still having some problems with the physics, when the track is not flat the car bounces, because the triangles of the track have a diferent angle one each other.. i'm working on that...

i hope soon we can put some download version in the official page, to make tests in other computers, and be able to share comments with all the community

i made a video in a rush to show how the game and the track editor work and how the car runs, I hope you like the game and all kind of comments are welcome

Stayne, I hope the video helps you to answer your doubts about ODE

now the video is uploading in youtube, as soon as I have the link, I'll post it here.

saludos!

Looks really nice actually, I like the colorful cars and your game environment looks pretty well balanced - good to see some shadows in there.

Great looking game latatoy - very impressive looking.

:) thanks, i'm realy happy with all the comments...

now the hard part, the video...

the url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffuQ3nuh6U

i hope you still like the game after watching the video.

regards!!!...

love the user interface. The track editor looks great too! Nice art. looks like fun to play. Once you get that "chattering" coming off the corners worked out, you've got a winner i'd think. I'd pay for it!

I was the first to view the video.

It was most exciting.

Very cool so far, I especially like the track editor.

Why is it called Simple Race though? I wouldn't really describe the game as simple at all.

Maybe it should be "simply race"?

the user interface looks great as does the racing.

Looks good. I see what you mean in the other thread about the car bouncing its way around corners. Tried updating the track normals after you create it?

Great stuff :)

Dabz

in the beginning the game was very simple, for kids with 5 years old, like the slicks%slides, or iroman old game... for that reason the tittle "simple race"..

now i re-read some comments and i think the "simple race" name is like a bad name... :), i think is better search for a new name...


GfK, yes, when i've finish the trackmesh, i allways use updatenormals(mesh)

about the powerslides...
stayne, if i understood correctly, the powerslides are like the film "fast and furious, tokio version", in ode, the slides maybe could be controled by the MU of the wheels, and the torque..
I haven't work in detail the topic of the slides in my game yet.

about the car bounce, there are two links in this forum about that..
http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=79489
http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=83477

It looks nice!

Really very effective nvironments.

I only have a small piece of criticism which I hope is constructive.

Regarding the sky, it may be my monitor, but in those screenshots, it looks rather overcast weather. This is all well and good of course, if that's what you're intending.

Oh yes, the name "Simple Race" may be misconstrued :)

Hi Malice,
the sky belongs to a stormy weather, in the game you'll be available to choose the weather you want. Now there is a stormy weather, but the light and shadows are like a sunny day.

about the name... I'm gonna have to find a new one!!! I'm open to suggestions, thanks for the comment.

Powerslide = Drifting

They're also on the Mario Kart games.

new improve for the game...

i made the inside car...

now i want to make the displays lcd screen... the right must to display all kind of data, and the main screen board, only speed, and car alerts.

any advice to do that, is very welcome..

I believe once you write an LCD class and draw it into a pixmap you should be able to use it as a 3d texture, isn't that right?

I havn't played with 3d in Blitzmax, yet, but I could imagine it works something like that...?!

LCD code itself should be rather simple and there's most likely a litter of them even here on the forum...

LOOKS GREAT, by the way! I can't wait to take it for a spin...albeit hoping that you make that possible for testdrivers! ;}

hey.. thanks taron...

my only wish, is finish this game has soon i can... :)

i think you have right about the lcd... but i donk research yet...

how you know of an example?

Looks pretty cool. I think the Simple Race aint no good name for the game though:) I really like racing-type-games (escpecially rally-games), but I'm not sure about the editor.

When I first saw the coming soon banner it looked like a cartoony, remote control car, type of racing game. Looked really fun! But after seeing the video it looks like other racing games but with less features and realism. Research "Polymaniacs" for an example of competing in an established genre but adding new original looks/features to make it stand out.