Design Projects
Kart Racer Clone
I love racing but I hate realistic racing games. There is nothing more frustrating in my opinion than trying to drive a car in a game feel like you have very little control because the game is too realistic Since I used to race gokarts all over the country, it just feels wrong to sit on a couch an drive a car with a joystick or plastic steering wheel. In my opinion you can never replicate the experience of driving a real car. I guess this is why I enjoy racing games with banana peels and turtle shells.
I recently learned some cool techniques for doing steering behaviors for autonomous characters. I thought that it would be cool to make an old school style kart racing game using Reynolds style boids and 2D billboards. It would be a really cool application of a lot of the different topics that I've learned in the last few years. If I really wanted to I could even add networked multiplayer support pretty easily. You could almost say that this is more of a technical project than a design one.