Turn Based Racing Game (formulky)

[popojan]

You also read my later edit?

The lower S value makes turning and accelerating act strange actually, I would keep it the original way (or maybe slightly lower S)

Thanks for the report. I have beaten your lap time to confirm the bug
Dynamically updating the fastest lap time is a good idea.

 

[popojan]

Now with the possibility to compare leaderboard trajectories or compete with a ghost trajectory. The ghost plays second though, not to allow for copying.

 

[popojan]

Got some time to revive old ideas:

• car setup: click the car before race starts (acceleration, steering, inertia - former track dependent S)
• physics explained: basic, including car setup
• drive several consecutive laps (and save them in the database)
• hopefully fixed erroneous records by properly storing float64
• no moves to time conversion, always show move count (formatted as time, millisecond precision)
• database schema support "races" to allow future asynchronous gameplay (race against saved trajectories)
• old trajectories are compatible, backed up and might get converted one day
• track editor core is ready (see default Sandbox track)
• sprites from the original track (courtesy of Josef Quis) can easily be inserted into any track
• unsuccessful attempts to code competitive AI bot

hra formulky: https://hraj.si/formulky

Still quite buggy and unfinished though.
Thank you for trying out if you dare.

 

[Jugulador]

0:35.235 and I loved the concept after understand it.

@popojan, have you ever played the Sid Meier's Ace Patrol series? It is an turn based WW1 and WW2 air combat game. I think that you can use some of his ideas to improve your game.

 

[rubaru]

I used to have this game at home. Immediately what I thought of when you said "turn-based".

Turbo

Auto race with an NPC ambulance that can help or hinder your progress.

boardgamegeek.com

 

[popojan]

@Jugulador, @rubaru
Thank you for your valuable feedback, gonna check Ace Patrol and Turbo!
It is 2020 and there is not much progress so far
Yet the idea is not dead, the latest experimental features include:

• cars blocking each other
• cars going off-track allowed but penalized

Using parked domain https://bangneki.com/racetrack to host the prototype.
Open-sourced at https://github.com/popojan/racetrack, just in case there was anyone willing to work at faster pace.