a zune racing game I am planning out

[Lucifer]

Originally Posted by umisguy

I've asked the help of a member of the GFX crew to make me some models / sprites and whatnot... and this is what I have so far:

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* Graphics are going to be much nicer than the original Atari release in the early 1980s

* Will be drawn onscreen as a perspective view, but all the game engine will be calculated and run from an aerial view of the track, with a shape of the course (GP style), and probably little rectangles for the cars so that the zune can track the position and placement of each car, and possibly even poll that 'virtual view' (which won't be seen by the player, and in fact won't even be drawn, but will have rectangles and vectors in it, mainly for math) for collision detection against the other drivers (AI), and the stuff off the sides of the track (grass / etc or pixel people watching the race..)

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* The cars will most likely be some of the following: supercars, LeMans racers, futuristic cars --- but I'm not sure yet which will be there.

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I never said that what I posted was a screenshot of gameplay or even so much as an idea of what the game will look like, I wish people would read my initial posts more completely ... I do explain things.

[skyroket]

i guess if you made it in the perspective of pole position with better graphics...i might play it......lol jk I'd play anything on my zune

[dan_1986]

I hope it coming along just fine ..... Been waiting for a racing games for 2 weeks.. now that someone is creating I'll be glad to wait on it. Put up screen shot once you have them.... thanks...

[skyroket]

hows progress on the racing game??

[nsachar]

So is this going to actally around a track? or will it be one thats like little tiny cars from a sky view? because either sound good! although one thats 3D somehow would be sweet or at least maybe texttures look 3D.

[Lucifer]

Originally Posted by skyroket

hows progress on the racing game??

some of the art work is being done right now, and the code is being developed at a rather slow pace, due to personal troubles. But further updates will be posted, all I ask is for patience.

Originally Posted by nsachar

So is this going to actally around a track? or will it be one thats like little tiny cars from a sky view? because either sound good! although one thats 3D somehow would be sweet or at least maybe texttures look 3D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometr...#Visualization
it will look 3d.

[ShotgunSnipist]

Originally Posted by umisguy

some of the art work is being done right now, and the code is being developed at a rather slow pace, due to personal troubles. But further updates will be posted, all I ask is for patience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometr...#Visualization
it will look 3d.

Any Updates on this?
Im excited for it!
If you need a beta tester or whatever,
I'm always available.

[Tiptup300]

Do you have algorithm for drawing in that style?

[Manticore-X]

While looking for info to create my engine I found this a while back. Might be helpful, or you might have already found it. But should be close to what you want

http://www.gorenfeld.net/lou/pseudo/

[zunediamond]

Hey I can't wait for this. Many quality games are being developed now.

[Lucifer]

I've been set back significantly of late, I have had nothing but a 400Mhz Pentium 2 with 128MB of RAM and I'm able to run the Visual C# 2008, but unable to do any internet collaboration or research with it, as its wireless card recently died and I don't have a way to get online most of the time.

[saab900]

Glad to hear your still working on it!