Trackmania is an amazing game... what i meant by arcade genre was the real arcade cabinets, the other day i took a little trip to the country and played Sega Rally (1995) and Racing Jam (1998) and those games still look and play amazing!





The experience is so overwhelming with the force feedback, giant monitors, speakers built into the seat, real e-brake, vibration... and the ever looming timer at top of the screen!
Most of those games made it to consoles and PC, but they all lost this adrenaline shot you get at the arcade.

Besides Trackmania i suggest you guys try a FREE racing mmo called Project Torque, its very well done, and very entertaining!!

Hey guys, since I'm not working on the game (or anything for fun actually) at the moment, because we had some interesting personal challenges to overcome... one of them being a nasty car crash i had 3 weeks ago with a fiends car while racing on a mountain road... we're all alive (I'm especially glad that my wife and boy are OK). The bad part is that the car was not assured and right now I'm working overtime to pay the damage... but its almost done now anyway, i don't know why I'm telling you all this, but i felt guilty that i just vanished form the forum and left lots of thing unfinished

anyway, here is a little experiment i did a long time ago, it was done to test the OSA kit in action and show it to a potential client that was (and hopefully still is) interested in doing a browser rally racing game.
so please consider it as a real-time previz, not a demo or a product of any kind...don't be too harsh to it, i did a very quick and dirty optimization: got rid of all the shaders, the reflection is not real-time, all the textures are 256x256 and lower, the cars are pretty low poly and the AI is pretty moronic, no mipmapping, no lod, no antialiasing... you get the picture it had to be done in 2 hours for this little low res window it runs in.

i would be interested in the performance you guys get out of it!

*NOTE: The included music is from the menu (not the actual race... the real one you can hear on the youtube videos) and was exclusively composed for G-Racer by ANTONIUM from Mental Architects... if you feel curious you can go to their page and scroll down to the 'video report' video and play it at 00:06:50 to see them having some fun with the main theme of the game.

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Thanks for reading and trying it!!

Sweet!  looking good.

WB Clandestine,

I am glad you and your family are fine .

You shouldn't be racing with them in the car ..

Bad luck for the damaged car, what was it ?

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Trying the demo now

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Sadly :
It never loads !
What is the size of the whole thing ?

I am on Windows 7 X64 .. maybe that doesnt like OSA ?

I just see loading with a small white loading bar below it but it never changes from about 50%

Hey man, i wondered where you went! glad your all okay!

thanks man!

What is the size of the whole thing ?

12 Mb

I am on Windows 7 X64 .. maybe that doesn't like OSA ?

well... i have no idea  you guys have to tell me

I like the whole driving experience it gives , and that's also really fast

cool!!! I'm very glad you feel it man!... we're getting somewhere with it now!

but I didn't understand the enemy cars upside down in the streets

this is the moronic AI, but its fixed in the latter version 

But it was certainly worth the wait.

wow man, thanks!!!!!!! you haven't seen anything yet!!!

I am glad you and your family are fine .

hey thanks, we got really scared... especially me, since i was responsible for the whole situation

You shouldn't be racing with them in the car ..

yes, i know, but i did it anyway... as always one thinks he's immortal until it happens 

Bad luck for the damaged car, what was it ?

Well, it crashed before finishing loading here on my computer.

hmmm...  what OS are you on? this must be OSA related... I'll mail them with the url and your impressions

thanks a lot guys!!!

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hmmm...    what OS are you on? this must be OSA related... I'll mail them with the url and your impressions

Well, I am not sure, because I went into the windows temp folder and I could run your project from there without OSA, but the behaviour was the same. The game started to loading, and then it crash.
My OS is Windows XP.

strange, I'm on XP too... could it be something to do with the OGG sound? i cant think of anything else right now