Hi friends!
It's time to show you my own leisure waster of last couple of months:

downhill

As title says, it is a gravity powered racing game.
One minute races in three driving styles.
Tracks are randomly generated to encourage intuitive driving and casualties.




Don't miss the VIDEO, and if you have a joytick the DEMO!! updated (2013/05/24)

Enjoy it!
Feedback will be apreciated

hey!
looks really awesome! is it possible to play with keyboard?
And i really like the look of the whole game!

Nice work man! I would advice few additions (you probably thought about them too), tire tracks when you break, "woooshhh" sound when you move near big object (check points) with a high speed (reminds me of underground 2) and maybe a little bit of radial blur when your speed is really hight

yeah some post processing (and maybe lighting improvements) could make
it look better but the gameplay already seems to be really nice and smooth!

great job (especially for a one-person-project)

EDIT: oh, just saw "Tracks are randomly generated to encourage intuitive driving and casualties."
Random levels / environments are so awesome!
They make the gameplay very interesting and it won't get boring after some time.

Thanks!


There is no keyboard control by the moment, but it is a must, I know.



Yeah! I will probably leave the tire traks for yaws, and include a raucous break sound. Something like an old bicycles break sound.


Good idea. Never thought on it.


I thought on implementing a radial blur stage for the impulse, so it will fit good on high speeds too.

The shadow looks sweet when you pass the street lights. The level looks sweet too. This is bad ass man. Good job! Perhaps some tunnels to race through would be pretty intense, like through a mountain or something.

Please provide a normal downloadlink and not an obscure "download patcher manager thingy". Before I download anythink i like to know a) how big it will be (so I can determine the downloadtime) and b) from where it comes.

Because it looks really, really cool and I´m eager to test it!

@Stansmedia
Tunnels are on my next things to do

@fogman
Sorry for the inconvenience.
It is just an updater. It does not advise about the download long, that is true. There are 75Mb to download.

@txesmi:
How do you download your files?
It took really long and there is also no real progress bar...

It is a ftp transfer from a server located in north america.
The numbers are bytes left of the current download.