Atari STE 50fps racer - WIP 19 Sep 2024 (longplay)

A longer video than the usual bitesize clips showing a full game from beginning to end. You'll should to get a feel for the way the game difficulty progresses over time, and also view the rather lovely 24 hour day/night transition.

Also check out the new tapered sky gradient (thanks to Defence Force for the idea!). Tons of performance work is currently ongoing to reduce the number of frame drops below 50fps as much as possible.

Please share this video far and wide - I want as many STE owners as possible to enjoy this game when I release (if all goes to plan) in December!

[PlayBASIC-Developer]

Beyond the technical achievement, this looks to be a fun game.. Fantastic !

[MickeyKnox]

very smooth ... I especially like the light dimming going from day to evening to night to dawn ...

[microzeit]

Wonderful! In addition to the breathtaking speed, I particularly like the seamless transition between day and night. Great work – keep it up!

[JoanOrfila]

Excellent work. You made an amazing job with Lotus Esprit man, mow I can’t wait to play this one.

[Steril]

Love the red tail lights on the cars...
Will share this on my fb page...

[Rand]

With your algorithm you don't see the curve coming, the track becomes the curve. But the illusion works and result is still solid. Good work.

[daishi]

Thought process - Nice smooth track movement, excellent car scaling, good amount of track side objects, great colour palette, good music that suits the game, SFX while playing music, excellent (and they don't hurt my ears) but only two cars meh its a good three cars now that's better, great what! four cars now that is a game I could get into.
Fine bit of coding, subbed and will be looking at your other videos.

[mleolv]

I’d love to see what you and the ste could manage with a 25fps target. Hills, tunnels, more objects.

[lalissesebastien]

Nice work !!! And nice music too !! The game makes me think about Enduro on the old VCS 2600 !!!

[CallousCoder]

This is technically incredibly impressive!

[easyerthanyouthink]

I still find it amazing that with all.the top demo.coders out there, that virtualy none of them got together and did some good ports of games, instead of making demos !

Some drips and draps came tbrough but mostly its nothing over all.these years.

[jezhollinshead]

Looks absolutely flipping incredible 🙌 The number of track-side objects and speed at which the fly past 🤩 Said it before but will say it again, if this had been released back in the day, it would have blown minds! Looks like you've managed to mitigate the wrapping of the track to the opposite side of the screen on the tight corners!? The transition from day to night and back is so cool. Would love to see the odd Porsche drone in there but assume there are tight limits to drone sprites / memory etc (I know nothing about how these things work 😆)? Amazing work!!

[CFalcon]

Every time I watch a new video I notice different things. Like how impressive the number and size of the road side objects is..

[whiskeysk]

Strong combined Great American Cross Country Road Race and Lotus vibes with this one. This is brilliant. I'm wondering what would be possible with falcon or TT hardware.

[robsmall]

Reminds me of WEC Le Mans from Konami and Burnin Rubber from Ocean on the Amstrad GX4000

[tpercent]

Should say "Time Extended!"... and a position counter under the mph eg. "Pos: 10/15" other than that it looks and sounds fabulous

[animator]

Very nice! :D I was just about to ask of you could smooth out the rasters a bit, but you beat me to it! :D

[yannleflanchec]

fantastic speed and beautiful grapgics, I especially love the transition from day to night ;-) Have you plan to modifiy the road to add up and down hills ?

[djmips]

Very good. Keep it up! Love to see it. How much use of the blitter are you using?

[MrLetko]

Great! But I think your enhanced games could be called STb as they just require blitter, not actual full STE machine, so unaware users of Mega ST with blitter or ST with added one could play, too 😉
And speedometer should be KMH, methinks (reaching 299 or so).
Can't wait for December when it's ready 😊