Martin,
Very nice potential here... a few things to say...
I like the cuteness of the whole game. I like the pfuttt pfuttt of the engine - ace, physics feel good if a little slow, but starting off driving from standing still, is too slow for me (using keyboard controls). I love the water splash - nice sound fx too. At one stage I dropped onto some sand and it took me an age to get off - which was just frustrating. It is nice to have a variety of surface reactions to acceleration but they need to be a little more speedy please.
I liked the courses - nice and compact. I particularly liked the hard track. I loved the tight corners and the jump, as well as the easy way it was to fall off the cliff roads if you were not too careful!!
I think graphically it is very nice. I would like control over which screen resolution I use and things like antialias, texture filters, colour depth etc.
The menu screen is okay but the text is a little too blurry in places, use drawimage instead of a texture, or use cleartexturefilters at the start of your prog.
I noticed looking through the files there are inis for me to alter stuff, which is a good feature, so many people miss this out!
Nice little particle and sun falre effects too.
I didnt get to experience the ghost racer yet but I will!!
If I had a gripe it would be the you need to tell us which key to hit to get back to the menu, and to enter our initials and press return. A little text goes a long way!
Altogether a really nice little game, and one me and the kids will play tonight!
Good one!
IPete2.
Very nice potential here... a few things to say...
I like the cuteness of the whole game. I like the pfuttt pfuttt of the engine - ace, physics feel good if a little slow, but starting off driving from standing still, is too slow for me (using keyboard controls). I love the water splash - nice sound fx too. At one stage I dropped onto some sand and it took me an age to get off - which was just frustrating. It is nice to have a variety of surface reactions to acceleration but they need to be a little more speedy please.
I liked the courses - nice and compact. I particularly liked the hard track. I loved the tight corners and the jump, as well as the easy way it was to fall off the cliff roads if you were not too careful!!
I think graphically it is very nice. I would like control over which screen resolution I use and things like antialias, texture filters, colour depth etc.
The menu screen is okay but the text is a little too blurry in places, use drawimage instead of a texture, or use cleartexturefilters at the start of your prog.
I noticed looking through the files there are inis for me to alter stuff, which is a good feature, so many people miss this out!
Nice little particle and sun falre effects too.
I didnt get to experience the ghost racer yet but I will!!
If I had a gripe it would be the you need to tell us which key to hit to get back to the menu, and to enter our initials and press return. A little text goes a long way!
Altogether a really nice little game, and one me and the kids will play tonight!
Good one!
IPete2.