New Top-Down Racer

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Hi folks,

I'd like to show you a project that my brother and I have been working on. It's a top-down arcade racing game for PC called Apex Racing League in which you will be able to race online or offline in a variety of classes. As long-time RC racers we wanted a game that provided the same experience in a more casual way.

After many months of work the concept has taken shape and now we've taken it to Kickstarter. I hope you guys can head over there sometime and take a look.

Now to the fun part, here's some off road gameplay!

 
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This looks fabulous @sidewinder26. This reminds me a lot of Generally, one of my all-time favourite PC games that nailed a lot of the things you're showing here - top down racing, loose and fun physics, variety of car classes, and races/championships based on tyre and fuel strategy rather than powerups. I'm also a big fan of that style of mixing in real-life and fictional elements, like you're doing with the cartoonish graphics and casual racing, with the inspired by real-life cars/tracks/sponsors, etc.

I'll definitely be backing - best of luck hitting your funding target! :)
 
Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it.

That was a heck of a game, its track editor worked very well. You can expect a similar feel here. We're putting together a demo that should be ready in less than a week, so you'll be able to try it pretty soon!
 
It's looking really good 👍

Used to love Super/Championship Sprint and Super Off Road arcade games, Micro Machines on the early consoles etc, plus the later Generally on PC, as mentioned above. Sometimes you just want a racing game that fun, easy to pick-up and doesn't have a host of complicated menus and upgrade systems. This looks exactly that.

Will it have a track editor at some stage?

Loving the Laguna Seca vid with the 70's F1's!
 
Too bad it's not coming to consoles :(
 
That looks really cool, if you add a track editor i'm sold.
 
@Suzumiya Thanks mate! You'll be able to try it sooner than later ;)

@Fryto That's the dream mate, we'll see.

@ForceMotion We're working on it. It's not easy to develop so we will need to re-design some of the graphic style in order to build an editor, but overall it'd a big improvement for a game like this.
 
Reminds me of rc pro am. Loved that game. Definitely be chipping in on this kickstarter. Best of luck getting this off the ground.
 
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