Rod Hot’s Hot Rod Racing
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Yes its a new Cyclomaniacs spin off game, this time with cars. The Cyclomaniacs engine was getting a bit long in the tooth and fairly unwieldy so it needed an update. Rather than do Cyclomaniacs 3 straight away we decided to have a go at a car themed one. It was also far too soon to start cyclo . Jules came up with a plan to allow players to adjust their handling, ie ride height, stiffness and wheel size which seemed really cool, also a lot of players of cyclo asked to have some sort of builder so they could make their own bikes.
The whole premise of the game was to make something a lot more immediate than Cyclomaniacs 2, so the format is a lot more like Cyclomaniacs 1. Some players seem a bt upset it isnt as big as Cyclomaniacs but it was never meant to be, it was a bit of an experiment for us, introduce a whole new gameplay element with the handling tweaks and make something fairly quick so we can get the engine ready for Cyclomaniacs 3.
From an art point of view it was actually a fair bit of work as we had 8 different locations with a big number of variations of those as we based them around real cities and locations (although they aren’t exactly very accurate representations), for this as well this was the first game where I never touched a sketchpad, usually I sketch most stuff out scan it in and then sort of trace the sketches in. However on this I drew everything straight in using my trusty wacom intuos 2, I really enjoy using the tablet for drawing and find it really quick to use now.
Anyway let me know what you think, and remember it isn’t Cyclomaniacs so try not to compare them !
Awesome game dude im glad that you decided to do a car themed one besides cyclomaniacs
thanks, we try to do a few original things, its a bit dis-hearting when most of the players just want the same thing over again.
Well for all your other games I’ve had blasting speeds, but here it takes forever to load and then as I click continue it shows a blue screen. Hope I can access some other time.
Oh noes, it shouldn’t load slow, maybe the server was having issues.
I’ll have a look at the blue screen sometimes that happens when you don’t have a sound card plugged in.
well I kinda get tired of the same thing over and over again….and for you (the creator of the games) I bet it gets boring making the same game with just a bit more different things and stuff like that
It would be nice to do more original stuff, everyone says they like original games unfortunately they never actually play them, so financially its a disaster.
not to be nosy but but how much does one of these games cost you? I mean I think if more people knew that you had to pay money to create these games mabey more people would be more appreciative twords your games and play them more often…just a thought
Most people do appreciate them, Hot rod has been played 500,000 times this week. Its hard to put a price on how much its cost as we fund it by not having a job. So it we worked for someone else in our previous jobs maybe 5000 a month, that’s only very rough though.
Yay! It works and it rocks!
Yay, glad you like it. Its not cyclomaniacs but it is still quite fun, I think.
i beat this game its easy
THIS GAME IS CRAKEN
ROBOT JAM THIS IS THE BEST WEB SITE EVER
the new game is awsome
IT IS BETTER THEN CYCLOMANIACS I THINK
you should do moter cycles with weopens that way if they get in your way u could blast them or u should put jets with micheguns and rockets
i dont agree maybe you could but why not just go with motorcycles and no weapons