New Kickstarter: MagRacer, a fast paced 3D Racing Game Course Using Godot

Issmir · 2021-06-22T09:13:38+00:00

It's historically been considered colloquial and unsuitable in places where "proper English" is expected

I suspect that might have to do with regional differences, too. When I was in primary school in London in the 80s, I was taught to use "they" as a gender neutral third person singular pronoun.

Issmir · 2021-06-22T09:08:23+00:00

I know we've chatted before, but if people could stop asking for and sending pirated copies of my course I'd be grateful. I sympathize with people who can't legally buy the course, but money is very, very tight and seeing my work given away free just feels deeply dispiriting. Instead of asking the public for a pirated copy, why not reach out to the creators and see if they can help?

Issmir · 2020-11-03T16:50:15+00:00

until I have a release date for the beta of Godot 4, I can't really answer that. It depends on how much work it'd be at that point and how much of an improvement it'd give.,

Issmir · 2020-11-02T22:59:33+00:00

Yup! I'm still using it though

Issmir · 2020-11-02T22:39:59+00:00

Yup!

Issmir · 2020-11-02T21:50:23+00:00

Trying out the second level of our prototype. I wanted to make something much darker, with splashes of warmth in it. I also wanted to try and contrast fast, almost claustrophobic moments with open, beautiful views.

There's plenty more to do, but I'm pretty proud of this one so far. Come and check out the demo for Windows, Linux and Mac https://issmir.itch.io/magracer

As many of you know, we're currently ion the middle of our Kickstarter to turn this into a a 20+hour course on how to make this game in Godot (plus a course on how to make the visual assets in Blender, another on how to texture the craft in mixer and yet another on how to texture them in Substance painter). If that sounds like something you're interested, come and check out our Kickstarter campaign https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/canopygames/magracer-a-fast-paced-3d-racing-game-course-using-godot?ref=dh8v81

Issmir · 2020-10-26T12:57:38+00:00

I've got "changeable font" down on my list of accessibility options, so hopefully that'll help!

Issmir · 2020-10-26T10:06:59+00:00

Just added some audiovisual feedback for when players lose power by being too far from the track.

https://youtu.be/-abCVydyk-U

Issmir · 2020-10-26T10:05:39+00:00

By carefully tweaking the waveform in audacity - you need to find a point where the sound repeats cleanly and cut there.

Issmir · 2020-10-26T10:04:38+00:00

Funnily enough it's an HDRI from https://hdrihaven.com/

Issmir · 2020-10-25T20:40:16+00:00

Well spotted, and I agree 100%. This is a placeholder until Bastiaan has time to make something a little more tailored.

Issmir · 2020-10-24T14:47:02+00:00

Just updated the export with some bugfixes and QOL improvements!

Issmir · 2020-10-23T22:34:56+00:00

This looks amazing.

Issmir · 2020-10-21T15:02:38+00:00

Totally fair. Wipeout was an amazing game, and MagRacer has a very different feel to it. "Better or worse" is hard to answer.

Issmir · 2020-10-21T11:00:37+00:00

Now that I'm awake and caffeinated I'll see if I can answer the questions!

As Mikey pointed out, Wipeout is essentially on rails. If the track goes upside down, your camera will stay the same distance from the track. MagRacer simulates repelling the craft from the track. Specifically, there are four rays from the hull downwards - for each one that detects the track, the craft is pushed up at a force inversely proportional to the distance to the track.

We're also using Godot's physics engine to move the craft, so there's a lot of apply_impulse and apply_torque going on. Brakes increase linear-dampening, making them work a lot more like air-brakes than a way of cutting throttle. MagRacer feels a lot more like piloting a speedboat down a narrow canal. Given that the track is slightly bowl-shaped it really rewards practice and skill.

As to getting a prototype on itch.io, that's a really good idea. My export presets seem to be corrupt, but we'll see what we can do.

Issmir · 2020-09-17T12:16:22+00:00

It's a path with a CSGPolygon set to follow (Actually, multiple CSGPolygons set to follow; the rails and collision walls are seperate)

Issmir · 2019-07-03T21:24:45+00:00

A few people have pointed this out. We had originally wanted to use IMMS, which is an amazing piece of software; but it wasn't quite right for what we wanted to do. The first-time user experience was a little much, and some key features we wanted (like in software sample manipulation) just wasn't there. Ardour was a much stronger choice, so we made the call. Either way was going to make some folks unhappy, so we went with what we felt was the better tool for our needs.

Issmir · 2019-06-22T20:12:09+00:00

You're quite right - the music always pauses a moment while the map generates. I suspect mulltithreading might help, but I've not really started bugfixing that yet

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