Top down two player racing game

[Chainclaw]

I've realized that I'm probably not going to get around to putting any reasonable work into this game for a long time, so here's what I have so far if anyone wants to check it out for any reason.

 

This is a two player top down racing game, with multiple tracks. At the title screen you can press up / down to change what track you race on. What track you select is based on the color of the score. Blue is Track 1 Easy, green is Track 2 Medium, red is Track 3 Hard, pink is Track 4 Random Short Easy, lighter pink is Track 5 Random Long Easy, teal is Track 6 Random Short Hard, and Track 7 is Random Long Hard. Pressing fire begins the race. Most tracks are 3 laps long.

 

The players each move their ship with the joystick. Going off the course over the grass brings your hovercraft to a stop. The higher up you are on the screen, the faster you go, but the tougher it is to see ahead. The score provides a timer of how long your race was, in case you want to do a single player time trial.

 

This game would be best described as "First Playable". I have a proof of concept up, but the game is not fun yet, and is light on features.

 

Here's my TBD list:

-Fire button does nothing. I was thinking about using it as a "boost" or power up activator, and potentially littering the track with power ups.

-Collision with environment and grinding to a stop isn't fun. The best way to handle this would be to slow the player down slightly, and slide them towards the track.

-When in random mode, both players get their own track, and neither player can see the other player to know who is farther ahead.

-Interface for track selection is unusable. At the very least the score should display the track number, at the best each track should have a title displayed to the screen.

-Track layout and design needs a few passes. Tracks could be made much more fun, and difficulty ramping of tracks from easy / medium / hard could be cleaned up.

-Tracks currently need to be individually mirrored. It would be nice to provide the player with tracks that are not mirrored for variety.

-Selectable ships and ship colors would be great, even if it is purely cosmetic.

-Sound

-Music

-Lap counter goes up when the starting line loads, lap counter should increase when the player actually crosses the finish line.

-Car syncing feels broken, but it is due to the non-smooth movement of cars, moving one "tile" up at a time.

-I'm sure there was way more, but I haven't even looked at this code in like a year, unfortunately.

 

Attached is a compiled binary runnable in Stella, and the source.

 

[+GroovyBee]

Attached is a compiled binary runnable in Stella, and the source.

 

You've forgotten to attach them.

[Chainclaw]

Attached is a compiled binary runnable in Stella, and the source.

 

You've forgotten to attach them.

 

Oops, looks like I missed a step. For some reason after choosing a file you have to click a few more buttons? I think I fixed it?

HoverRacer.zip

HoverRacer.zip

[grafixbmp]

Attached is a compiled binary runnable in Stella, and the source.

 

You've forgotten to attach them.

 

Oops, looks like I missed a step. For some reason after choosing a file you have to click a few more buttons? I think I fixed it?

 

Looks like a great start. A suggestion. It would be nice to setup smooth vertical scrolling. I know I've seen other bB games do it. Not sure what it would take to make each side do it individualy though.