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« on: April 24, 2012, 05:50:04 AM » |
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Trying to catalogue all the 2D third person driving games there have been, or find a list online.
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Outrun, Chase HQ, RoadBlasters.
Basically I'm working on a series of 50x50 pixel games at the moment and we were talking about how we'd love to make one in this genre. But we're also struggling to think of an original mechanic. Don't want to end up making a clone.
I think knowing all the tried and tested variations might give us an idea of what could be done.
So far we've got from the above: checkpoints, ramming, weapons/pickups.
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2012, 06:07:34 AM » |
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Jumps and intersections.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 06:12:49 AM » |
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Check out the Road Rash series, they have a pretty interesting mechanic of fighting people while you drive. |
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st33d
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2012, 06:22:23 AM » |
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There was a dune buggy one that did the jumps, what was it called?
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2012, 06:36:59 AM » |
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Lotus III, Special Criminal Investigation and Technocop are ones I can remember. Technocop has a difference though in that it changes into a side view with the player having to capture the criminal in his hideout once you've chased him down in your car. Used to love it.
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2012, 06:38:37 AM » |
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A bit left of centre here but the Revolt! games were great fun! Primarily Revolt! 2 on the PS1.
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st33d
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2012, 06:55:17 AM » |
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Revolt is proper 3D. I'm more looking for 2D examples because they placed restrictions on the graphics and gameplay. Technocop! I think I had that on the AtariST and Spectrum and both crashed all the time. A game which also had a side-scroller and driving section was Batman the Movie on the Amiga: http://youtu.be/34eDHhH_hvw?t=5m19sThe mechanic in that was checkpoint + handbrake-turn. |
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2012, 08:21:00 AM » |
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Yeah I remember playing Batman the Movie on the Amiga too, was such a good game back then. Will have to go back and play it sometime.
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2012, 09:09:27 AM » |
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« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2012, 11:08:33 AM » |
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Ah, which brings us to Enduro Racer. I think the big innovation with bikes is that they'd probably have one you could straddle in the arcade and tilt. Completely forgot about Pole Position. - Found it!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggy_BoyI think Buggy Boy was the first to introduce jumping. Ah, I can sleep now without going bananas trying to remember it now. |
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2012, 07:11:18 AM » |
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Jumps and narrow paths for motorcycle characters.
Barricades to wreck through and solid off-road traction for power vehicles.
Superior handling and acceleration/brakes for more sporty cars to manuever around these things. Maybe one model designed for solid turns, a second for drifting; top speed/acceleration tweaked for balance between them overall (solid turns gets advantage on straightaways, drifters get advantage around curves).
Start-to-finish non-linear course design, rather than being lap-based. Cash pick-ups, and score based more on money accumulated overall than best racing finishes. Crazy Taxi/fare twist, maybe?
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« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2012, 06:54:55 PM » |
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I have nothing useful to add but I totally loved outrun in the arcade!
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