Hi, I followed this topic for the last few days and I just wanted to throgh in my ideas.
1: There could be speed or slowdown strips on the road so that, when you drive over them, get faster or slower, depending on the strip of the road.
2: There could be objects lying on the road like extra fuel tanks or such stuff.
Just some ideas.
Greetings Moritz.

Hey all,
So a few important changes here:

  the game is moving more toward the unlockable side now. Rather than automatically loading the beginner track on game start, you must select between that, or another track you've unlocked before hitting start game. I'll show you how in tonight's audio demo.
Also, the maximum number of opponents you can spawn on a track depends on how wide the track is; the beginner track is 60 wide, so only 5 opponents can spawn there.
  Also I played with headphones for the first time today, and the stereo spread sounds freaking awesome! I love how it sounds when the enemies are right next to you, and when you pass them; it sounds so real. Currently I'm still working on variating maxspeeds for enemies, fine tuning and the like, but overall I think we're ready for an awesome audio demo! Be anticipating that tonight, on that page of my website!

The audio demo was already released, and can be listened to here

Actually Burak, I was thinking about adding something similar to what you've suggested: walls, that a player must navigate between. Though all left to right squares will be available to pass, you must position yourself between the two walls in order to stay on the road and not die.
Let's give an example: The builder of the track places a wall nav object. The left wall is located at 23, the right wall at 27. The length of the wall nav object is 50 squares. Thus, the player must turn left until they're between 23 and 27. If they are not within these boundaries throughout all 50 squares of the wall nav object, they would die.

Is this a good idea?
Of course, I'd make it impossible to spawn these while on track turns, at least for the less advanced tracks anyway, as that could cause the player to have to constantly fine turn lest they'd love to grind the wall and explode

I can try to that, but not sure whether or not I actually can. First of all, though, I'm gonna try and implement the carier feature, and I also need to get together a game datafile that keeps track of varying variables that depend on your progress through the game. Once I do the datafiles, I think management of the various features will be far easier.

Hi,
Wow, the new audio demo sounds quite fun for me.
Something I would put in to the game would be the shifting of gears.
In my opinion, this would make the game a lot more reallistik.
Greetings Moritz.

Hi
Please make it sir
I like racing and has expected a racing game from USAGames but they have some other issues
so don't hesitate sir!
I love every game except text games.

hmm yeah. although, I'm not sure why you'd need that, that is, until I implement unlockable missions and you have to turn around and shoot a cop or something, or perhaps you want a powerup to be yours before the enemy can get it. You know what? That actually sounds like a great idea! I'll be adding those to my coding suggestions directory. PS do you keep up to date with my development page? I only ask this because I think it would help you quite a bit, that way you would know all the features I'm working on and the ones I'll be adding next.

Urgent--input requested!
I was wondering, instead of putting opponents to the left and right of the player, should they all be lined up (y1, y2, y3) etc for each opponent, and the further the opponent is from the 0 coordinate, the slower they will accelerate?
@Burak I understand dude. Yes, I might as well add such functionality in there... you know... it would be quite humerous. I was thinking that if the player hits shift+down arrow one time, they will begin to move backwords. If they hit shift plus up arrow, they will move forward again.
You know what would be funny? If some one used the backwords feature to go behind an opponent, turn back around, and bump it from behind to slow it down a little. Now, that, would be funny!

Oh. So that is good: my positioning from left to right on track is good?

Also Burak, Driving backwards and forwards is now implemented. While driving, Press left shift on keyboard to turn backwards, and press right shift at any time to drive normally again. Perhaps I'll add an item in the carrier that allows for players to make enemies do this for a small bit of time, but it would likely cost someware around 10000 coins, simply because the player is already a tiny bit faster than their opponents in the first place, and the only time I'd think this to be useful is when a player crashes, for example, and does not want to be so far behind their rivals.

Yeah, I was thinking so as well. But the only racing games I've ever played were Jim Kitchen's Mach 1 and top speed3, and I don't remember much about the former, since I hadn't played that in 4 years. But as for Top Speed I thought the cars were ligned in a y coordinate row, rather than side by side, that's why I was confused.

yeah I believe topspeed does have you lined up bumper to bumper rather than side by side. I wouldn't have a problem with that if it wasn't random, if you had to do a qualifying race to determine your position in the single file line, that would be cool, I believe that's what NASCAR does.