Please Firemint please add the ability to steer with onscreen buttons like Asphalt. Sometimes these controls are better when you just can't be twisting the iphone side to side to steer (like on the bus of sitting next to people. All car racing games should have both motion and touch steering options.
The sense of speed seems to be problematic. The car in the video drives at about 200 miles or kilometers per hour and it does not look like that. This must not make it a bad game, but it looks that Fastlane will stay the only game with a real sense of speed on the iPhone.
YouTube We've just released a new video which shows a little bit of the YouTube integration - you can upload a replay of your laps with TV-style camera angles. We are also building a special web site for showing off your videos, lap times etc. We'll be saying more about these kinds of features as we get closer to release... (no official date yet, sorry!) [hqyoutube]wa-Un_5S9kc[/hqyoutube] You can watch it in HD although I've noticed bandwidth or YouTube sometimes can't keep up with those, so it may look choppy
Again, totally reminds me of Sega's Ferrari F355 Challenge. If it's anywhere near as good, we've got a contender for best racer.
Wow. That's awesome!! Did you see the message I left on your profile? Oh and two questions about the video: 1. Is that the boot screen? 2. Is that you playing?
Touch to steer We agree! We have several control schemes so people can pick the one they like best, or the best one for the situation Touch steering is in there. The guys have also done an amazing job on the accelerometer controls - you can play it upside down lying in bed if you want.
Believe me, as soon as I'm told a launch date I'll be jumping up and down telling everyone We don't want to announce a date and then have to push it back if it's not all exactly as we want it to be. Hey Danny, yeah, thanks for the PM 1. That's the logo for Firemint Real Racing, and yes, it will be in the game 2. No, that's Dave, our QA Manager, sadly my skills are not quite up to his level! We tease him about his beautiful hands, which he takes with a very good sense of humour
1. awesome. reminds me of days of thunder except this one is much better. 2. lol!! oh and it was not a pm. check your profile. it was a profile message
Ah yeah, sorry, I mixed those up, just remembered seeing your message! Thanks for the suggestions to you and everyone else who's been commenting, please keep the great feedback coming - I'm passing everything on to the team but of course they get the final say on what makes it into the game
i sure hope my suggestion make it. the one i want the most is not being tied to the ground. i want to be able to get some air but with realistic physics. i also hope beta testers are chosen.
That's great to hear, and sorry I took so long to reply. When you say you have Touch Steering like Asphalt 4, what do you mean? In addition to tilting, Asphalt 4 had two[/ib] types of touch steering: 1) Hotspots. Tap left side of screen to turn left, tap right to turn right. 2) Virtual wheel. Hold finger on wheel and turn it to steer. Do you have only type, or both types of touch steering? Also, when tilting for driving, how do you handle the ingame horizon? Does it tilt when you tilt the idevice? Or does it stay horizontal and level even as the ingamecar turns as you tilt the iPhone, keeping you the player orientated?
I am really looking forward to this game. I have The Fast and the Furious: Pink Slip and that is so much fun, I really enjoy that. It will be interesting to see if this stacks up to NFS, it certainly looks like a strong contendor
Those are excellent questions, you obviously know your racing games! You're not a developer are you? As you know we are still polishing so unfortunately we can't go into too much detail now, in case things are tweaked later... but I'll see if I can get one of the coders to do an interview closer to release!
1. Note the variable touch screen options are also present in Gameloft's Ferrari as well. 2. The horizon tilt/no tilt option was a subject of debate with Fastlane Street Racing, and was incorporated in their most recent large update.
