So, I've been playing a ton of Outrun lately. For those of you who have never heard of Outrun, here is a video of it . Basically, it is one of the best- if not the best- arcade racing games in existence, and I would like to port it over to 15 mhz calcs (I don't know how well I could do with 6 mhz). At the bottom of the post is a picture of Lotus Turbo Challenge for the ti-83+. It looks alright, but there are some things about it that I would want different in the game. For starters, I think that I would want to have a much larger car sprite that changes depending on which way you are steering. Along with that, I would like to implement hills and grayscale, four-level being ideal. Also, I would not like a stationary camera, but one that moves along with the car. Before I even get started, I would like to know would this be possible in Axe? I should probably also mention that it would not use anything like a Mode-7 type of engine.

I do not think that I would be able to make such a game by myself, however. I do not know how to go about creating a racing game of this kind (by that I mean storing the tracks in memory and drawing them onto the screen). If this game is indeed possible, would anyone be willing to help?

(Lotus Turbo Challenge)

Lotus Turbo Challenge. I was just using it for comparison. (No, I did not make it  .)

Lol, I thought you were trying to make something that would be faster (i.e., "outrun") a Z80 processor. Not too hard

I actually saw that a couple of days ago, and it helped me get the idea for this game (along with Lotus Turbo Challenge, of course). I figured that if DJ could get that in Xlib, I would at least be able to get a reasonably good racing game done in axe.

thanks! although I don't think it's going to use very much 3d math, but will most likely just imitate 3d.

thanks! although I don't think it's going to use very much 3d math, but will most likely just imitate 3d.

Ya, I know. I was just saying that his was Mode 7 3D (I believe?) but that some of the concepts of it still being a racing game would still apply.

Look up I believe TI:GT or TIGT on ticalc. It would be another source of inspiration. It had some good improvements over Lotus, like background moving and other stuff I believe. I might have played on unreleased version of it though so I can't be positive. The had talked with the guy who made it a long time ago, maybe about joining RS when we were first getting started. He lost interest in calcs though I think.

EDIT:
Actually it was called Ti-Rally GT here's the link:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/326/32627.html

Maybe in his earlier versions, but that one I linked to was pretty decent.