My first arcade strait racer 3d (thanks to MOT's code snippet instant 3d+)
enjoy!
Very cool!
(My wife says she likes it too :-) )
The coin-op arcade machine feeling is very well done.
@Mot thanks! That's alway my style, arcade. Your 3d code Snippet is for good too :)
p.s. update: limited map display to speed the game up 60fps...better!
i think its way too hard - too many cars and not enough space to even think about passing them at the speed your going ...
I see where you were going with this, and it isn't bad, but the robots are programmed to go in front of the player (I think...) And they don't focus on winning the race, they focus on you NOT winning the race... If that makes sense.
@BGelais I intend the comments lower down for those people finding this game a little too tricky (as I do). Your game looks good and plays decently within its design choice as a linear racer etc, but I'm not a frequent player of racing games and perhaps because of this I crash very quickly now it has been increased to 60fps.
I have poked into the code briefly - it's very readable and easy to work with; so thank you for that! - and below I provide two tweaks to affect the feel of the game should anyone want them (note to others - BGelais' cart is under the license: CC4-BY-NC-SA) or if you wanted to implement them yourself (but perhaps in a better-than-I've-written-them, adjustable-in-game way, such as easy mode (perhaps with less points for passing cars), and normal mode).
By the way @BGelais I think you have a typo on your menu screen, where it reads "crivals".
Thank you for the game. :)
As I always write at length, I've hidden some of the longer sections.
@Vinnyc11 a quick glance at the code makes their movement look random.
Rival's code and a tweak
Player's code
What I find difficult is the responsiveness of the car speed.
Analysis of player speed
Perhaps I'm over-reacting in how long I press the decelerate button, whereas perhaps frequent players of racing games have a far finer gradation of control that their fingers exert. I'm not a frequent player of racing games. Anyway, for anyone looking for more gradation of control at higher speeds ...
Tweak to player's code
Disclaimer: My look into the code really was brief; it might be that other factors also contribute to either the movement of rivals or the player speed.
@remcode I'm alway open in code suggestions. Thanks a lot! I put you in the credits code and make another update from your suggestion today! :)
update: Changed gas/break controls to O and X... plays better, almost for gamepad :)
graphics, added the forgotten threes on the track.
fantastic look and feel to this one! your game has that nice mix of tight controls and tension that classic racers evoke.
i think scoring is bugged though (at least for me). for some reason when i am passing a bunch of cars (right about when i get to a score of 130-155) the score stops increasing. then when i finally crash, the score increases a bit for cars passing my fiery wreckage. once i start again the score starts increasing again, but only for a short while before it stops once more. maybe it is because i hug the rails so to speak? i am not sure.
other than that, i really like this one. i appreciate you sharing your game with all of us! thank you.
@anydayhappyday Thanks a lot! Yes the scoring problem is due to the speed you pass the cars avoiding quickly this condition in the code... if someone got a better solution to fix that, welcome.
if o.y>106 and o.y<108 then
if (o.spr==7) score+=20
if (o.spr==23) score+=5
if (o.spr==39) score+=10
end |
By the way, short time after I wrote this, i finally fixed the score bug!! Version 10 ;)
Quick update rev.15: Reduced the player's car explosion length to 2sec (like I did on the Crazy Rally sequel)
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