I'm introducing a new game mode in Spirit of Eternal Racer. It's the arcade mode, called Story Mode in the game. It was actually planned from the very beginning — I mean including the arcade experience of classic 80s and 90s racing games: fast cars, exotic locations, changing weather and that fun feeling of driving. That's the idea, and it's already starting to take shape.
Here's what I'm adding to make it happen...
After a period with quite a few more hours of coding under my belt, I can finally publish a major update for Spirit of Eternal Racer. This new version, which sits at v0.5.2 after a couple of quick revisions, represents a massive leap in quality compared to the previous demo back in January (0.4).
Many of these improvements stem directly from the feedback I've found on forums and social media. Issues like the proportion of the cars on track or the need for greater visual realism were pending tasks that I was really eager to tackle.
Well, time for another update. This time I have quite a few new things to share that I think keep improving the game. As usual, some are related to driving, others to the menu screens, and of course there are internal improvements and bug fixes. As a preview of the rest of the article, I'll say that I think the main one is being able to drive with a steering wheel. Using a gamepad works fine but, even though it's an arcade game in terms of gameplay, the steering wheel makes it more fun and a bit more realistic. At least that's how it feels when I try it.
Time again to share how the game is coming along, and what I've been doing to make it feel more realistic, fluid and, above all, fun. For starters, I'm finishing a new circuit: the legendary Spa-Francorchamps, one of the most challenging in the world, and it already has enough detail to make it feel quite authentic. But that's not all: I've also been improving the physics, the AI, the graphics and the player controls configuration. I hope the details are interesting.
When I first started developing the idea for the game, I knew that the player should have a wide variety of different cars available and that they should be real. In fact, in the first videos I published, you can see a Koenigsegg and a Renault Clio.
I soon set a goal of having about 20 different cars, at a rate of 4 or 5 for each racing category. With that in mind, I started looking for fan-made models under CC-BY licenses on 3D modeling sites (which is where the two models mentioned above came from, and where I found a few more candidates for SoER)
