Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Speed Dreams, Racer, irrlamb, Violetland

Speed Dreams (SD, formerly known as TORCS-NG) is a fork of TORCS with the aim to

implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

Now I'm not a racing game fan and so the biggest change I noticed between SD and TORCS is the menu look in which the fork really shines. See my comparison over here.

Anyways, I recorded a video. Please excuse my driving un-skills :)

Racer has been making some progress. You can now play player-vs-player (there is no way of 'winning' though) and the levels have been improved as far as I can tell. If you have some ideas to share for this sci-fi racing game in the works, please do comment on their group!

After quite a while, another version of irrlamb has been released! It takes away the old (in my opinion very original) levels and instead presents polished graphics, a friendly tutorial and two skateboard arenas.

I tried the um.. "top-down zombie shooter with rpg elements, I guess" violetland and was impressed by how much fun I had! Its simple gameplay is well-supported by the cool music. I have been playing a match of this fun action-rpg now and then.

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7 comments:

  1. Julius11:18 pm

    uhh nice find there with violetland... had never heared about it before. too bad the levels are so bland looking (so far?).

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  2. qubodup10:56 am

    I like the level backgrounds, though some of them make zombies hard to see. There are definitely objects missing like walls, plants..

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  3. pds12:53 pm

    Looks very similar to a game called Crimsonland. Much better just to call it a top-down shooter or a shoot 'em up rather then an "action-rpg"

    Leave out the whole rpg elements thing. Just because a game has exp in it doesn't make it an rpg. It would be like calling Half-life 2 a racing game:)

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  4. qubodup1:10 pm

    Yeah, I'm just too used to xp = rpg

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  5. Unknown9:41 am

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  6. Unknown9:43 am

    Be sure there will be some significant visual improvements in Speed Dreams 1.4.0 final :)

    Speed Dreams 1.4.0 is the road to 2.0 which will bring much, much more.

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  7. Bart6:22 pm

    Speed Dreams is now on Twitter:
    http://twitter.com/Speed_Dreams

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