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So the story would be more like a visual novel, right? By chance, would you need voices for the characters? I can provide you some if you don't mind or if you're in need of such, my VA talent and others that I'm associated with.

I suggest making dialogue choices to give multiple endings and rival selections based on the players' decision - that way they're not confined to racing against just the same plot rival but to multiple ones depending on their choices.

I'm liking the progress bro. Keep it up.

For the sake of Car AI, rather than have them be confined to just 1 driving style or pace, why not give it 2 or 3 and when the game loads, they're chosen at random via random select prior to VSing the player, that way players can learn to adjust and gives it the sensation like they're racing against actual players / rivals.

Yes, I have a visual novel toolkit that should let us create a visual novel style story. As for gameplay modes, I need to see where we go with the game and story. By all means, keep the ideas coming.

radicool.

Just sent you a couple characters and cars. This is coming along nicely At this point every game I've worked on has been canned lol.

Checking my PMs now.

As of the end of January, we'll have 250 published games on iOS. This game WILL see the light of day. The big question is, with what features will it ship with?


My goal for today is building a prototype and video if possible.

If it helps, I'm studying games design as of Jan '15. Its' a 16 month course and will supply me with a gaming laptop to help design games along the way with it.

I'm not really confident with the Game OST's I'm doing, I'm bad at layering but I mma work on it.

I'll help with other fields of the game project as well.

Ken, so far, the tracks you've been making meet my quality standard. We just need longer songs so if you can meet or beat the quality of tracks you've been giving me, I think we'll be in good hands. I believe in you.

I started college as a music major so you're welcome to send me the tracks and if I have suggestions or any advice to give you, I'll let you know and we can work on them together.

My best friend does recording and mastering. If we need guitar tracks or extra spice, I may be able to get him to help us out.

Just wondering on the progression of this Project? I haven't heard from you guys in a while.

Hey Kenzz

Good stuff happening. I'll update the main post with the latest news.

Nice progress! Glad you talked to Ken Blast as part of considering his music.

Thanks, I haven't heard back from him after the first contact which is odd since he seemed very open to licensing his tracks. We've slowed down a bit on production. We lost a project file with the first build that I was planning on tweaking. It's not a big setback overall but it does eliminate me getting an early video preview. We're going to build it again from the ground up, properly.

Here's the vehicle roster we have at present. We'll be adding to this of Course

Trueno
RX-7 FD
NSX
R-34 Skyline GT-R
Castrol Celica GT4

To help fund development we'll be launching a Tokyo highway driving game hopefully next week. I'll keep you guys updated on that.

This got me interested. So will the model come with Castrol red and green vinyls? Or rally fog lights/vents? Which generation Celica GT4?

This post has been edited by Falbere on Jan 10 2015, 10:22 PM

Yes, it's the celica with the red and green vinyls. But for copyright reasons, I don't think I could include it in the game unless I'd change the paintjob. It's still up in the air.

I'm not a lawyer by any means, but I think as long as you don't include the trademarks like Castrol within the visuals, the red and green vinyls are fair use.

By the way, will you be implementing different drivetrain physics? Such as FR will behave differently from 4WD or MR

Or will it be all drifting? Grip vs drift?

This post has been edited by RIT_ninja on Jan 11 2015, 05:24 PM

Primarily, I think I want to focus on drifting so we'll most likely be sticking to RWD and 4WD.

Yes, I can change drivetrain layout. Currently the Trueno is RWD and can produce some pretty nice burnouts. I'm still struggling with the physics though. I built a setting where the car handles and drives great, looses a little traction at start which looks realistic. The car can powerslide sideways and then recover but I haven't been able to add oversteer through acceleration yet. Gassing it recovers the car which is the opposite of a drift car. It's handling more like a FWD car would. Still very fun but I feel like it may need something else for a drift game.

Back to the Celica, there are 2 Celica Rally cars that pose the Red & Green Castrol Livery, is it the ST185 or the ST205? And you can rename the Celica as the Celica GT-Four Rally or Celica GT-Four Kai

Something I meant to ask too, the ST185 or ST205

Will you be adding controller support? I'd love to load this on my amazon fire tv (or whatever android tv box i may have when the game is released).

Why did it take me so long to notice the new development-related post in this thread?

Yeah. That's mainly down to the fact that unlike with more realistic approaches to tire physics (where longitudinal and lateral grip are interrelated), when it comes to Unity's default tire physics longitudinal and lateral grip act completely independent of one another. Spinning a wheel under power doesn't cause it to lose cornering ability, and sliding a wheel at a suboptimal lateral speed (if the friction curves are set that way) won't keep it from having full acceleration capabilities.
Basically, you'll have to script it so that meeting certain conditions temporarily decreases the cornering stiffness of the rear tire colliders. In this case I think you could first try something like having the rear cornering stiffness decrease under braking (and maybe decrease the front stiffness a little too, depending on how much braking stability you want), and then keep the rear cornering stiffness decreased if the player holds down the throttle - having it quickly and smoothly begin returning to normal stiffness every time the player releases the throttle, in which case getting on the throttle makes it begin decreasing again. Then maybe the car could exit from this drift mode if a getvariable is used to find the car's lateral velocity or rotational momentum, and the script detects the car's lateral velocity/rotational momentum has been within a certain minimal value for a certain amount of time (though I'm not sure if a getvariable can be used this way in Unity). Or maybe it could simply exit drift mode if the rear cornering stiffness has stayed above a certain value long enough. And then maybe you could figure something out from there.

I won't say getting the sort of cornering physics you're going for is going to be easy, because it'll possibly take quite a bit of fine tuning to get things feeling right in Unity. I hope this post ends up being of some help to you there though.

To respond to everyone's questions. I'm going to make a new thread on Game status but I'll answer your specific questions here. Sorry for not responding, have been busy lately and haven't had too much progress pertaining to the game in January.

Falbere, it's the 205 I believe with the 4 round headlights.

Eklipsed, I've had issues previously publishing for Amazon and would need to buy a Kindle fire TV. Then again, my buddy has some for testing so maybe we could borrow one. I'll say it's a possibility above and beyond building the game for PC. We'll see.

Meteor, I think I cracked it. I got really fed up with the controls and sat down and reconfigured them from scratch. This time I think I got it. The problems I had before are gone. Accelerating does increase the drift and I changed the brake balance to stabilize the car. You do need to be deliberate about drifting and it's hard to maintain an extremely long and pretty drift, but the tradeoff is that the cars are fast.

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