MUD Rally Championship thread of announcement and development.

[Diablohead]

Title: MUD Rally Championship
iDevice: All devices
Players: single

Planned features: Arcade mode, Championship carrear, Time attack.

MUD Rally is being made for all iDevices using solid and bright colours to keep the graphics sharp and give a unique style and look, delivering a fun arcade style rally racer which will blow you away!

The game is under heavy early development and this thread will feature regular updates as the game progresses.

http://i28.tinypic.com/21d0n5x.png
http://i28.tinypic.com/k7pd2.png

[upsidedown]

Wow! Pretty cool screens!

[LBG]

Wow, interesting graphics.
Looks cell-shaded/cartoon like.

[indyraider4]

cell shading?!!?!!?!?!!?! AWESOME!!!!

[Muzic <3]

Cell Shading racing.... hmm....



EPIC.

[Diablohead]

cell shading?!!?!!?!?!!?! AWESOME!!!!

Since it would probably be power hungry to make cell shading in real time, everything is textured like it already, so you could say the game will use zero lighting.

[dominator246]

Delicious.

[Chronical]

hmm.. i wouldn't make the lights shine THAT bright..
but, awesome graphic!

[Diablohead]

http://i25.tinypic.com/2i8c7eb.png

Another target render but if all goes well the game should look exactly as above, all lighting is done by textures to keep things simple, I can't write shaders :)

The main car from the first page has had a huge reduce in texture size but the result is that the car looks better imo, using 1/4 the texture space then before.

http://i29.tinypic.com/14w367c.png

This is the only car featured so far but I plan to make more once the game is running, start light then add content when it all works!

Also since I spent a few years learning sequential illustraton I plan to make a small animated intro, drawn not 3D, but we shall see. If you can't tell this game is very anime like.

[iphoneprogrammer]

Title: MUD Rally Championship
iDevice: All devices
Players: single

Planned features: Arcade mode, Championship carrear, Time attack.

MUD Rally is being made for all iDevices using solid and bright colours to keep the graphics sharp and give a unique style and look, delivering a fun arcade style rally racer which will blow you away!

The game is under heavy early development and this thread will feature regular updates as the game progresses.

http://i28.tinypic.com/21d0n5x.png
http://i28.tinypic.com/k7pd2.png


mmmmmm... kinda on the wall bout this one. def would like to see a Dirt2 knock offtype game. You know one with actual rally cars and actual real life tracks etc.... You guys should try to get liscences for rally vehicles. ( much like the ones in the X games). hopefully you guys change the way your approaching this game

[rich_952000]

Hmmm...the sooner this hits the app store, the sooner I can hand my cash over:) Looking really good, unique.

[MidianGTX]

mmmmmm... kinda on the wall bout this one. def would like to see a Dirt2 knock offtype game. You know one with actual rally cars and actual real life tracks etc.... You guys should try to get liscences for rally vehicles. ( much like the ones in the X games). hopefully you guys change the way your approaching this game

Dirt 2? It's an iPhone mate. Screw the realism, let's have a bit of crazy off-the-wall rally fun.

[iphoneprogrammer]

Screw the realism? If they considered making this a sim rally racer much like Dirt 2 then they could make a lot more money than with this arcade racer. Granted there isn't much like this out there but I beleive that racing games in the AppStore Are heading in the realism direction. This game still looks sweet ass and it's Def buy for me any waY they make it but I'm just saying higher profits might be earned with a more realistic game. Maybe they could do both?

[SoCal_Sponger]

its like Real Racing vs NFSU...I'd rather have a realistic game than arcade. Thats just me though.

[MidianGTX]

Screw the realism? If they considered making this a sim rally racer much like Dirt 2 then they could make a lot more money than with this arcade racer. Granted there isn't much like this out there but I beleive that racing games in the AppStore Are heading in the realism direction. This game still looks sweet ass and it's Def buy for me any waY they make it but I'm just saying higher profits might be earned with a more realistic game. Maybe they could do both?

Sounds like you're letting your own preference get in the way of reality. Why do you assume people want sim more than arcade? iPhone can't barely even handle sim so arcade is the ideal style for the platform. There's hardly a shred of evidence that suggest all these iPhone owners are crying our for sim racers.

[DocDJ]

Wow, that looks really great. Can't wait for more shots and info.

[Diablohead]

Happy new year! just to let you know that development is still going but has been slow, now that it's a fresh year this has become my main project and should have some good information soon :D

Since october:

Visual style has adjusted but is still anime-ish
Car selection will all be fantasy, no licenses since this is an indie project

[ImNoSuperMan]

Upcoming UK iPhone/Touch developer, at a very slow pace...
Lol @ your sig :p

Looks pretty neat though. Now hurry up ;)

[Nascor]

Looks very nice, can't wait to see more :D

[LBG]

Screw the realism? If they considered making this a sim rally racer much like Dirt 2 then they could make a lot more money than with this arcade racer. Granted there isn't much like this out there but I beleive that racing games in the AppStore Are heading in the realism direction. This game still looks sweet ass and it's Def buy for me any waY they make it but I'm just saying higher profits might be earned with a more realistic game. Maybe they could do both?

So you think everyone thinks like you? No.
People are always looking outside the box. Looking for something different, something alternative to 'another typical racing game'.
In today's crowded market, people often love a twist like this.

[OzzY]

This is just beta, right? Please do not leave the bushes and trees 2D (looks ugly, no offense)! The only game that did it properly is 2XL ATV Offroad.
You said that lighting and shadows are just textures, than there is a lot of space in memory and a lot of processor power to make almost everything 3D!
Also, will the car physics be real physics or just animation, and if it will be animation is it going to be realistic or just an average arcade animation???

[Diablohead]

This is just beta, right? Please do not leave the bushes and trees 2D (looks ugly, no offense)! The only game that did it properly is 2XL ATV Offroad.
You said that lighting and shadows are just textures, than there is a lot of space in memory and a lot of processor power to make almost everything 3D!
Also, will the car physics be real physics or just animation, and if it will be animation is it going to be realistic or just an average arcade animation???

Right now there is not much I can say as well, the game is still very early and anything can change. I should not worry too much about texture sizes as I am well aware on limits on older devices, in fact those old mock up screens were only using two 256x256 textures including the car.

Physics wise I would say it's more towards having fun with the iDevice tilt steering then being a true sim, one reason why I am going along with a more cartoon style then a realistic one.

[kleskus]

Wow. This look's promising :) How much cars and tracks, you are going to add in game? And second, how long the tracks are? I hope, that there is more content than in Rally Master Pro from Fishlabs.

[iphoneprogrammer]

Any new info or updates? I'm really looking forward to this.

[Diablohead]

Any new info or updates? I'm really looking forward to this.

Nice to see people remember this game in development :p I will be blunt and say that I am looking for a iphone coder still, but the visuals have had a vast improvement without adding polygons (I want this game to be a smooth one) i'll get some stuff together for tomorrow, the car was totally remade for a start and I been making a countryside track for a test track, it's all rather cool :)

[iphoneprogrammer]

Nice to see people remember this game in development :p I will be blunt and say that I am looking for a iphone coder still, but the visuals have had a vast improvement without adding polygons (I want this game to be a smooth one) i'll get some stuff together for tomorrow, the car was totally remade for a start and I been making a countryside track for a test track, it's all rather cool :)

This game hasn't left my mind since I first read this thread.... But I love the fact that the dev is the one who respoded to my post... Hopefully you find a programmer very soon... Can't wait for this to drop!!!!

[Diablohead]

Sorry for not showing much but it's stuff I work on in my spare time, the biggest hurdles are preparing everything, once that is done I can then place it together like a jigsaw.

The car model was improved a great deal to 1) lower the total polygon count, and 2) to add in extra parts of the car which can be swapped out jut by using different alpha later textures. The plan with doing that is to keep things much more simple then having lots of separate parts attaching to the car by the game engine.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2rrpf6o.png

[iphoneprogrammer]

Awesome....will that be the only car available in the game?

[mattll]

the game looks really great
it is definitely on my watch list
i love the grafic style

[Diablohead]

Awesome....will that be the only car available in the game?

Yes, since it takes time to make one and well it's worth getting the game running first before adding in extra content :p

[iphoneprogrammer]

Yes, since it takes time to make one and well it's worth getting the game running first before adding in extra content :p

That makes perfect sense lol..As a suggestion you could change the type of liveries on the car (liveries are like the symbols and company logos that rally cars have) So that people can earn new looks for the vehicle. As some may get bored with the same color and car after a while. Oh and diablohead did you happen to get my PM?

[RyoHazuki]

Arn't there already enough Arcade style racers on he iphone, A cartoony looking game with realistic driving would make this game unique.

They ruined the Colin Mcrae series when they dumbed it down and came up with Dirt 1&2.

[iphoneprogrammer]

any new developments on this? Dev could you enlighten us on your progress?

[iphoneprogrammer]

I know your on Diablohead, you know you want to come and post in this thread! Were you able to find a programmer? If not you could always ask on TA maybe work together with some devs of another company?

[Diablohead]

I know your on Diablohead, you know you want to come and post in this thread! Were you able to find a programmer? If not you could always ask on TA maybe work together with some devs of another company?

No coder yet, it's extremely hard to find someone or people who know how to code, they are either all busy or require payments up front, something I just can't afford.

If anyone is interested in helping please feel free to talk to me, rather soon I will have a target video finished to show exactly what I would like this game to be like.

[iTracki]

Could you do some beta testing when you get to the beta stage in development? I would love to test this game out. Thanks for the game, looks really good so far!

[iphoneprogrammer]

Could you do some beta testing when you get to the beta stage in development? I would love to test this game out. Thanks for the game, looks really good so far!

hes still in the alpha stage of development, like hes said he doesnt have a coder yet so i dont think the beta stage will be ready for a very long time. :(

[iphoneprogrammer]

Its been a while since I thought about this. Any new info or updates? I may have a coder for you if you havent found one yet.