The secret achievement winner has the letter r in his name We ended up putting 58 achievements into the game, most of the 8 extra achievements were heavily inspired by the suggestions in this thread About the twitter tagline contest: You have a chance to win the free copy on twitter until the game is out. gwet17: The release date is in March, so it should be available within a week. Here's two blog entries showing the creation of the game in a bit more detail than the pics I posted earlier: Part 1: http://death-rally.blogspot.com/2011/03/making-of-death-rally-part-1.html Part 2: http://death-rally.blogspot.com/2011/03/making-of-death-rally-part-2.html
Cool picture, and thanks for the links. It's always fun to see how much games in development really evolve over time.
What's the twitter tagline contest? I looked on twitter, facebook, and your site, but couldn't find anything about it.
We've started working on the content for the first update. It's gonna be a tight schedule so we have to be picky about what to include in it. There's these two weapon concepts we're considering. With some luck we might be able to include both. If it turns out that we only have time to include one which item would you choose? Haruhi: Imagine if we had released that physics prototype Artfoundy, I mentioned the contest few pages ago:
Great, thanks - posted my tagline. And both of those concepts are awesome. The missile launcher would be a hell of a lot of fun to use, but as jxw245 posted, the laser sight would probably be more useful overall. But hey, if you can only do 1 at first, you could put the other in a 2nd update, right? Another few ideas for weapons (you've probably already thought of or seen suggestions for these, but figured I'd offer them anyway): - EMP - an AOE effect around your car that doesn't do damage, but instead temporarily disables the cars around you, stopping them for a few seconds - Lightning gun - shoots a bolt of lightning that will target the closest car to its line of projection and do moderate damage the longer it stays on that car (but if there are multiple cars nearby, it may jump from one to the other) - Nuke - shoots a highly destructive missile with a small radius of effect that can also destroy your car if not used properly. Can only be used one time - The Joker Fist - a huge spring-loaded fist that, upon hitting its target, sends the car flying. Can only be used once but leaves the fist on the road to allow driver to pick it up and reload it. Might have to call it the Clown Fist or something to avoid possible copyright issues... - Oil slick - self explanatory - Caltrops - big spikey balls dropped out the rear that can blow the tires off cars, making them very difficult to handle - Tank Shell (or maybe Force Field or something like that) - a defensive item that temporarily renders your car invincible to munitions based weapons - armor absorbs set amount of damage before being destroyed. Drawback though is you can't use any shooting based weapons (only dropping types of weapons like mines).
This is a tough decision, but I am going with multiple rocket launcher! It would be good for taking out groups quickly!
I would go with the Rocket Launcher like everyone else has so far. The laser sight is not exactly a weapon though, right? And is there a chance that the other weapon concept would come in a future update?
The laser seems like a nifty feature to have, but I think the rockets would probably be more useful. XD
The rocket launcher should be more powerful and useful than the laser sight. First choose rocket launcher, you can add the laser sight in the next update.
*whispers* don't worry everyone else SUCKED *whispers* ehh good job on all the entries you tried your hardest...? lol jk let the best MEN win (me and crexy boy) haha
Surprisingly almost everyone chose the highly destructive weapon The first version of the multi-rocket launcher is now implemented, next we'll tweak the rocket flight paths and the explosion effect to perfection. I really like how Mechwarrior games did it, if we can get similar feel that would be great! One fun challenge we added on friday was "Nitro Challenge". The nitro is applied for the whole duration of the race and it's faaast Haruhi: It's not impossible to have both items in the first update, everything just has to go really smoothly next week. Artfoundry: Cool weapon suggestions! We had an idea similar to The Joker Fist, it was a magnetic projectile that would throw cars out of the way and bounce around from the track borders. rooteboy: Maybe
Love that idea! There are a lot of fun weapons you can do with just magnets. A projectile that sticks into the enemy and pulls in nearby shots for more damage, A mine that pulls into an enemy vehicle (could explode or push with force), or maybe a projectile you fire to clear the road of hazards or use as a decoy for homing missiles. It's all good
Those are all great ideas! the magnet 'mine' could also attract instead of pull putting enemies into the path of explosive mines or just slowing them down.
