Real-time racing game.

touch · 10 Jun 2009 at 17:27

These visionaries are working hard on perfecting the technology of streaming live racing data to games. Meaning your opponents ingame are the same drivers that are currently driving on track! Think you can beat Lewis Hamilton? Prove it!

Sorry if this has been posted before (i did search).

Hequn · 10 Jun 2009 at 17:30

Signed up to be notified of the beta, sounds interesting

Dup · 10 Jun 2009 at 17:52

One big flaw... you are a 3rd party to the race at hand so therefore there won't be any AI. So if you shove off the other cars you're ruling out the whole concept. Odd.

paradigm · 10 Jun 2009 at 17:58

I assume they will be ghost vehicles, so overtaking would simply be a case of being faster, rather than having to win the racing line.

Dup · 10 Jun 2009 at 18:02

paradigm said:
I assume they will be ghost vehicles, so overtaking would simply be a case of being faster, rather than having to win the racing line.

Yeah I suppose that's the case. It just seems to lack substance that way though. Studying the drivers up close and replicating pace and line in an AI environment would be a better concept so you could emulate racing them rather than hot lapping them. I'm not sure this wil take off tbh.

4T5 · 10 Jun 2009 at 18:13

I've chatted about this concept whilst messed up loads of times, In fact it's one of my favourite talking cobblers about gaming subjects of the mo.
So Firstly This is MY idea I thought of it Where's my kick back. :mad:

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Can't see why they didn't do this ages ago as I don't see it as that complicated when it's only Data. Obviously you will be limited as far as effecting the race yourself & the data will have to adjust for your involvement but still I would have thought this is relatively easy for programmers.

Can't wait to Pawnz them All.

NathanE · 10 Jun 2009 at 19:38

Think I'll stick with LFS.