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[Aidan63]

_speed_ is an adrenaline fuelled top down racing game set in 2100, the turn of the century where the worlds first anti gravity racing league is taking place. Pilots are put in state of the art crafts in which they race against each other or the clock using various weapons and power-ups all at over 400MPH.

Upon release I plan on having the following features in game;
- Arcade mode
- Career mode
- Craft customiser
- Online times and scores

Arcade
Everything will be unlocked, all tracks, crafts, craft variants, mode etc will all be available to play. What you do in arcade mode will not effect Carer or Multiplayer modes.

Career Mode
Career mode will start you off with each teams standard craft, by using craft you earn commendations for that team, these commendations can be used to unlock new craft variants. (see end) The career mode will consist of a map built of lots of hexagons which will contain race events, completing events will unlock the events in the surrounding hexes.

Craft Variants
Each team will have four craft types;
- Standard
- Weapons Variant (slower, more armour)
- Speed (faster, less armour)
- Prototype (Only available in certain race events)

Race Events
Completing race events will get you a gold, silver, bronze or no medal depending on how well you do as well as commendations;
- Standard Race (just a simple race )
- Time Trial (Beat a certain time to earn certain medal tiers)
- Head to Head (1v1 race)
- Tournament (Series of races after each other)
-Endurance (Using each teams prototype craft, starting at the slowest speed and each lap the speed increases, race finishes when craft is destroyed)
- Eliminator (No lap limit, first to 10 ship kills wins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSXgopzq8yM









Tim “CoLD SToRAGE” Wright has kindly let me use music from several of his albums. _speed_
"Tracks to Race by" contains 13 electronic adreneline fuelled tracks by Welsh video game composer Tim Wright. Tim also know as CoLD SToRAGE has created music for several videos games including; Lemmings, Colony Wars, WipEout and Gravity Crash.

_speed_ Tracks to Race by contains;

- Lost in Music
- Pencil Neck
- Wiped Out
- Blique Noir
- Rombobo

All of his music can be purchased as well as listened to from Tim’s bandcamp page over at Coldstorage.bandcamp.com
For those interested in listening I will post the tracks below and what album they belong to;

CoLD SToRAGE HD
- Pencil Neck

Android Child
- Rombobo
- Blique Noir

MELT
- Wiped Out

Tim keeps a record of all his old tracks he has created at Coldstorage.org.uk and has kindly allowed everyone to download them for free.

Downloads
Below will be a list containing all of the current and previous download links for builds

LATEST - Release 8 - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56446591/_speed_%20builds/_speed_%20alpha%20v8.zip

Contacts and links
http://leegamestudios.wordpress.com

http://www.indiedb.com/games/speed

http://twitter.com/_speed_game

[email protected]

[Code_Assassin]

This looks very similar to Super Laser Racer. Anyway, I look forward to seeing where you go with this. I am a fan of top-down racing games anyway 

[Aidan63]

_speed_ development is back on track with lots of new things to start the new year!

Alpha Release 4 (v0.0.4.6)

Changelog

Changes

- Lap timers
- New track
- sounds for countdown, boost and collision.
- New track pieces (narrow sections and diagonals)
- Added new end of raace score screen
- 25% more damage on wall collision

Bugs

- Fixed track colour and music not randomising between startups

Video http://youtu.be/ORquR3qD4cM

Windows Build https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56446591/_speed_alpha_v_0.0.4.6.zip

Gallery

http://i.imgur.com/wWvW4h.png

http://i.imgur.com/rMlcAh.png

http://i.imgur.com/pWXBIh.png

[failrate]

That's really cool.  I was thinking about making something similar.  Nice to know that that now I don't have to

[Aidan63]

Development Log week of 2nd Feb 2013

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Change Log

- AI craft collisions
- Started working on a new track
- Posters decorate the buildings
- Every craft has a new design
- Underground areas have been introduced
- New craft selecting menu
- All steering DRASTICALLY reduced (about 1/4 of what they use to be)
- All damage has been increased

Bug Fixes

- Should have fixed all depth issues.

Gallery

- http://i.imgur.com/3tK3mWu.png
- http://i.imgur.com/ZmpKM2C.png
- http://i.imgur.com/zUbrzLq.png
- http://i.imgur.com/tBNhqHX.png
- http://i.imgur.com/ZHD0s9f.png

This week's to-do

- Pause menu
- finish new track
- Start adding options to the options menu

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http://www.indiedb.com/games/speed

http://www.youtube.com/user/leegamestudios

https://twitter.com/_speed_game

[Aidan63]

Development Log

I would have a new build out however the latest version of Game Maker Studio broke some things and I don't know when they're going to release a fix.

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Change Log

- Added banners and signs to eventually replace posters on walls.
- Added new track "Stanza" (Based on Wip3out's Stanza Inter)
- Basic pause menu
- key binding (Broken due to update)

Bug Fixes

- Fixed lap timer not counting miliseconds

Gallery

- http://i.imgur.com/iM3lC8Uh.jpg
- http://i.imgur.com/BSapt8Hh.jpg
- http://i.imgur.com/JiwLqIsh.jpg
- http://i.imgur.com/Qg43h4Xh.jpg

This week's to-do

- finish new track
- Start adding options to the options menu
- Add stats to craft selection screen
- Finish the banners and signs

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http://www.indiedb.com/games/speed

http://leegamestudios.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/_speed_game

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=30454.0

[Aidan63]

I was hoping to get a build out this weekend but I've decided to delay it till next weekend so I can polish up some things such as controls and settings.

It's also half term so I have a week off which I plan on using mainly to get a lot of things done.

Change Log

- Finished two maps (Downtown and Stanza)
- Selecting tracks from the menu
- Pause menu
- Key binding
- Started to change some speed values of player and AI craft

Bug Fixes

- No idea lost track

Gallery

- http://i.imgur.com/lW6yY1Wh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/LwkeHfEh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/ZfIQ7qkh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/GXaFQG8h.png
- http://i.imgur.com/tQ2o1agh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/tNkg23th.png
- http://i.imgur.com/FkVcuGOh.png

This week's to-do

- Add time trial and endurance mode.
- Start adding options to the options menu
- Add stats to craft selection screen
- Finish the banners and signs

[Aidan63]

Development Log

Lots have been added this week and I'm extremely pleased with the progress being made. Also I'm happy to be able to release a new build of all the new features from the last few weeks!

NEW BUILD

This build's features

- Two Tracks
- Two Game Modes
- 18 Different craft
- Varying levels of AI difficulty
- Varying speed classes

Video

http://youtu.be/_Fw8C1bU_Gs

Download

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56446591/_speed_%20alpha%20v5_1.zip

Change Log

- New game mode Time Trial
- Craft stats redone
- Removed keybinding options (Working on a new method since GMS's new progressive case scan broke my current method)

Bug Fixes

Again no idea

Gallery

- http://i.imgur.com/woQdxwph.png
- http://i.imgur.com/5Z3qIg2h.png
- http://i.imgur.com/xmEuI9Yh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/Ub0hTzIh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/oE9ifNBh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/xPdVgEah.png

This week's to-do

- Endurance mode
- Motion blur
- view zooming
- some options

[Aidan63]

One game mode added two more to go!

Change Log

- Added Endurance mode
- Added Endurance Craft
- Added Repair pad
- Changed colour of the weapon pad to purple
- Added a Dynamic Camera
- Added Screen Shake

Endurance Mode

You begin the race at the lowest speed class and every lap you complete your top speed increases, the race is over when your craft is destroyed. I choose to make everything in a black and white style to emphasise the difference and still have bright banners as contrast.

Gallery

- http://i.imgur.com/FNwieaL.jpg
- http://i.imgur.com/J9rQq21h.png
- http://i.imgur.com/cYiBvhfh.png
- http://i.imgur.com/7hENp7Th.png
- http://i.imgur.com/gOEUxa4h.png
- http://i.imgur.com/EFA463mh.png

Video

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiEqhJ53oYE

Download

- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56446591/_speed_%20alpha%20v6.zip

This week's to-do

- Add a new track
- Add head to head game mode
- Chnage how lap times work in prep for online scores
- Add some polish to endurance

Links

- http://leegamestudios.tumblr.com/
- http://www.indiedb.com/games/speed

[Aidan63]

Now that rendering issues in Game Maker Studio have been fixed I've been able to carry on development.

Change Log

- New mode - head to head (1 v 1)
- Dynamic camera now does stuff
- Rework the depth and audio system
- Added sprites for explosions
- added sounds for missiles, rockets, and mines
- Increased steering (again)

Gallery

http://i.imgur.com/Kym6uamh.png
http://i.imgur.com/oxmQQAkh.png
http://i.imgur.com/8nHkf7N.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uWxRaxmh.png

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLN3mog5Rs8

Download

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56446591/_speed_%20builds/_speed_%20alpha%20v7.zip

This weeks to do

- Add ray casting lighting
- Add a new track
- Redo craft (again)
- Prep for online scores

Links

- http://leegamestudios.tumblr.com/
- http://www.indiedb.com/games/speed

[Graham.]

I would make the player avatar easier to read. Other than that looking good.

Racing games are mesmerizing. How about some curved sections in the maps?

[Aidan63]

_speed_ development log

I missed out a dev log last week because I had a week full of mock exams and got nothing done. I now have two weeks off school to haul arse and hopefully get tonnes done.

I've started to add lighting using the Tlighting engine however for some reason lights won't stay of the correct place, so I've posted in the Tlighting topic on the Game Maker Community forum and will hopefully get it fixed soon. I have also made a new track set as you will see from the screenshots, the only disadvantage is I had to remove any diagonal pieces due my new track set behaves awkwardly with diagonals connecting.

http://i.imgur.com/UqJqhHsh.png
http://i.imgur.com/UUfvDDfh.png
http://i.imgur.com/bAV8SSG.png
http://i.imgur.com/tO7h99ih.png

To-do for the next week/two

- Fix lighting issues.
- Add several new tracks.
- Re-do AI to allow them to use weapons.
- Switch from Tumblr to WordPress.
- Start to create the options menu.

Questions

Should I move away from each team has three craft and make it so that each team only has one craft, this will allow 18 teams instead of six.

[Aidan63]

_speed_ Development Log

This last week I've been working on new craft designs and some back-end work with lap times for online records.



I've decided to go with 12 teams over the original 6;

- GB Great Britain
- CA Canada
- JP Japan
- DE Germany
- US United States
- IN Indian
- IT Italy
- BR Brazil
- TR Turkey
- AU Australia
- CN China
- FR France

I've also set up a trello page to keep things organised and what I need to do next, I would highly recommend it to anyone working on a project.

https://trello.com/board/speed/50d0e10abbd60e875e0003f0

Recently I have been thinking more seriously about selling my game once it it finished, I've been looking through HMRC and it seems there is no age limit on self employment, however I'm wondering if it would be worth setting up a limited company or just doing it with my name.

As for release I hope to release on Windows, Mac and Linux now that GM Studio has Linux export. There are a number of digital distribution platforms I hope to get on;

- GOG
- Green Man Gaming
- GamersGate
- Desura

I would love to get onto Steam however I doubt it will but I shall put it on Greenlight anyway for extra exposure.

If I decide to sell my game that would be my plan on how to do it.

I would appreciate any feedback on the latest demo or on the new craft designs.

[Aidan63]

I now have a new website! http://leegamestudios.wordpress.com/media/

This will be replacing my tumblr page, I'm very happy with how it is but there are still a few things to sort out such as custom domain names etc.
I would appreciate any feedback on the new site or on the new screenshots and demo's as I haven't got any recently.

[DustyDrake]

I gotta say, you were seriously grating against my nerves by calling what felt like everything 'adrenaline fuelled' in your opening post. Like, I get it, your game is supposed to be fast paced. But there's a point where you have to start using synonymic phrases in your opening post.