driving miss daisy

once you have your coded with all the functions you want, its time to realy get on iwth the level design and playability.

for an ordinary driving game, not racing, just... driving what would you like to see. what i have in mind is small cities through country roads to small sleepy towns then to absolutely nowhere.

what should happen on the way to places like these, what should you bee seeing, hearing.

driving could get a bit boring so other side games would be a nice addition, car chases perhaps. get to such and such a place on the set time.

i think it'd be interesting if you could switch to a passenger in the game and play mini games on something like a psp.

Actually, you should have thought of these things even before you started coding.

Anyway, I don't think playing "mini games on a psp" is that good of a concept. If driving around is so boring, then why should I do that in the first place? I'm playing a game after all, I want to have fun. Why do I have to sit around and wait or play unrelated minigames? That doesn't seem so elegant to me. Either allow me to skip the drivingpart, or try to add something that makes sense (in a loose sense of the word) as far as driving is concerned. Car chases is a good idea. Races would be possible. In GTA, you get points for nice stunts. Why don't you add something like that?

Generally, if you ask yourself "What do I have to add to make Part X fun", then think if you really need the player to go through Part X at all. It might be enough for him to see a panel or a textmessage "After driving five hours through the desert, you're there". Of course, not all games are made to be "just fun", so maybe you're after that (in the sense of a realistic experience). If so, ignore what I've said.


(For some reason I keep thinking of that one game that had you driving a bus through the desert for hours without anything happening inbetween. I tried to find an article about it, but without remembering the name of it, thats hard

EDIT: Found something about it: Link )

Great find on the smoke and mirrors!!!

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Great find on the smoke and mirrors!!!

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Yes, the Penn & Teller game was the first thing to come to my mind too.


I wonder if there is a market for a pure driving sim like there is for flight sims. My first thought would be no because almost anybody can drive (at least in the US) while few people get the chance to fly an airplane.

But then I'm thinking about all the gear-heads out there who would love to drive a $250,000 sports car...

The real trick is the fact that you are simulating an experience that almost everybody knows really well. I know Marco can tell you what it feels like to land a plane with a crosswind , but most of us don't. But almost everybody over the age of 18 in the US can tell you what it feels like to parallel park between two cars.