Racing game

ben_g · New Member Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 77

I've been working on a racing game for the contest on omnimaga, but I just couldn't finish it in time.

It can already render the track and has some collision checking, but it isn't complete yet. Bends for example don't have any collision checking. There's also AI, but it's a bit glitchy: it starts swinging across the track more and more, and when the track goes up, it just goes away, because the up and down sections aren't implemented in the AI yet.

For the rest it does support decorations for at the sides of the track, but I still have to make models for it and add some stuff in the model drawing routine. The checkered flag of the finish is handeled as one of those decorations.

I also need to fix the AI and implement acceleration/decelleration, and probably there will also come items to slow down oponents or to make you go faster.

The player model (the cube) is only temporary, and will probably be replaced by a sprite in later versions. It's a cube right now because I don't have a sprite routine yet.

Here's a screenshot:

KermMartian · Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:08:05 pm Post subject:

This looks like a great start to the game! I think it will probably look a lot smoother once you implement proper acceleration and such. Is the falling down onto new tracks intentional or the rest of the glitches you mentioned? Is this pure z80 or Axe? Do you have a planned name for this game?
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ben_g · New Member Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 77

The falling on new tracks is intentional. When you fall of the track and reach a depth of -5, you are teleported to a height of 5 at the start of the segment you were on. It's meant to look like you're falling onto new tracks as some kind of dying 'cutscene'. But you sometimes fall trough the track at bends, and that is a glitch.

This game is pure z80, and I don't really know a name for it yet.

seana11 · Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:20:11 pm Post subject:

Is the jerky movement of the car a product of of the game, or just because you were only moving some of the time?
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KermMartian · Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:33:45 am Post subject:

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LincolnB · Advanced Member Joined: 07 Jul 2011 Posts: 199

Looks very nice! I'm impressed.
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