Oversteer - Toon Shaded "Test Drive" Style Racer from POLYGAMe

Hello and welcome Hopefully only a couple of weeks away from launch!

 

Here's a WIP shot of the title screen

 

Cheers

Pretty excited about this game! It's simple but it's fun

 

Me too, though this game did start as something bigger. Originally it was planned as the "spiritual successor" to the 3DO version of Need For Speed. I have even been in contact with the lead artist from that game and he's been really helpful.

Unfortuinately, it was turning out to be an absolutely massive undertaking for a lone developer, so I decided to keep it simpler. Rather than release some graphically limited, barren mess, I decided that toon shading it could give it a bit of gloss, whilst keeping the game much simpler graphically that what was required for a "realistic" sim.

The gameplay remains the same though, blasting through traffic, aiming for the best time/score and you have a limited number of cars, or "lives". Three big crashes and it's game over

Here's what it looked like earlier on. One day I will release a more realistic looking sim, but when budget allows

 

Hey, that's the old version! You should be more excited about the new look! Hahaha, jokes.

Game has been held up slightly for art reasons... Have a new artist now and he's cranking away, so shouldn't be too far off. Hopefully by end of April

 

Here's another "sneak peak" screen grab!

 

Thanks! Have a new artist onboard. Works for a local animation studio and he is bloody fantastic!

 

Have you seen it running on a C64 with SuperCPU? Looks amazing! So much smoother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIPJWc59hvU

 

Here's another WIP shot. Tentative release date of June 1st

Getting closer!

 

And one more. Sorry, for some reason my stoopid iPad won't let me attach more than one image to a post.

 

Cheers

I'm HOPING to release it then. I am currently using store bought models for the AI cars but I'm not happy with them as they aren't particularly well done and are way too high poly, so makes the 4S run like crap. I'm going to model them myself, as I did the player cars, so this will add a few days to the project but I'll be more proud of it