DREAM RIDE for Sega Dreamcast

[matt]

I made a game for the Sega Dreamcast!

https://gingerbeardman.itch.io/dream-ride

1 to 4 player (Human or CPU) competitive arcade driving battle arena. With a bunch of different cars, modes, options, and even some secrets locked behind a cheat code.

FEATURES
* 1 to 4 players
* arcade driving
* coin collecting
* power-up packed
* arena battle
* mayhem!

VIDEO

[bingobongo]

Looks like the perfect setup for a game like Atari's 'Super Sprint' - spent many (many) hours playing that one on the Atari ST back in the day

Looks good!

[matt]

Thanks!

I used to play Badlands, Super Sprint, and Super Off Road on my Atari ST.

[runkthepunk]

Looks really cool and I love the little car designs.

Be great to see it evolve into an old skool rally game like Thrash Rally or Neo Driftout.

[matt]

I do have some ideas where to take the game, but not sure about how much time I'll have to devote to it. I'm a full-time indie and need to earn money with whatever I make. One of my games got a GOTY in 2023, I'll be porting that to Dreamcast next.

I modelled and rendered the little cars a handful of years ago so it was good to be able to use them without any changes - no rerendering needed! I probably would have given up.

The game features 8 out of 32 that I've done, only because that's all I could fit in Dreamcast VRAM during development. I could probably squeeze one or two more more in there now things have settled down, but really I would want to make a dynamic loader so cars are loaded on demand. We'll see.

[runkthepunk]

One of my games got a GOTY in 2023, I'll be porting that to Dreamcast next.

This sounds very promising indeed, any hint on the game?

*Edit I found it when I did some digging after I downloaded Dream Ride looks really cool