Baintastic Racers!

[Baintastic]

Hello all!

I came up with this idea about a week ago and I've been working on it feverishly ever since. This map will be a racing style game that places a heavy emphasis on terrain and weaponry.
I know racing maps have been done before and I can't say I've actually played any of them, but I feel that this idea has the potential to blow any others in this genre out of the water.

This is what I have so far:

• Concept: a racing game that I want to be a sort of cross between Mario Kart, Extreme G3, and Lego Racers.
• Physics: a sweet self-written physics engine to support acceleration, deceleration, steering, and even collision and jumping based purely on terrain!
• Controls: arrow-key driven vehicle requires no use of the mouse
• Camera: first person camera
• weapon ideas

  • Forward Offensive
    • Hook Shot
    • Homing Missile (reddish)
    • Homing Rockets (spray of small homing missiles)
    • Missile (greenish)
    • Rockets (spray of small missiles)
    • Railgun (high damage with charge time)
    • Confusion Bolt (makes enemy car face random direction)
    • Leech (ray that steals life)
    • Goblin Zeppelin (drops bombs on first place)
    • Mortar
  • Local Offensive
    • Lightning Shield (creates damaging electric orbiting balls)
    • Shrink Ray (beam that rotates around and slows/shrinks)
    • Disarm (silence)
    • EMP (disables steering)
    • Clockwork Procession (cw goblins orbit, then home, then orbit, then explode)
    • Cluster Rockets (rockets orbit and get further away)
    • Barrage (rockets just fly out and damage nearby units)
  • Rear Offensive
    • Land Mine
    • Big Land Mine
    • Napalm
    • Rolling Mines
    • Goblin Shredder (runs around and attacks units)
    • Goblin Sapper (runs around and explodes)
    • Electric Fence (slows units that drive into it)
    • Oil Slick (disables steering)
  • Defensive
    • Magnetic Shield (deflects enemy weaponry)
    • Orbiting Shield (collects enemy weaponry and orbits it)
    • Cloaking Device (doesn’t protect from weapons, just from sight)
    • Phase Shift (weaponry passes through)
  • Boosters
    • Short Boost
    • Long Boost
    • Flying Boost
    • Teleport

This is what I need:

• Someone to redo the terrain! I don't like how the terrain is turning out so far. Feel free to change the mapsize or tileset.
• More spell ideas are always welcome.
• Opinions for how to implement the weapon system; ie. use mana and have spell cooldowns (extreme G3), purely perishable items that are randomly selected (mario kart), or some sort of mix (lego racers)
• General suggestions

 

[cookies4you]

I sense a lag-fest with battle.net's delay. GL on it though.

 

[Baintastic]

thanks! yeah... I imagine it being more of a LAN game but who knows?

 

[Super-Sheep]

still, lan doesnt remove the arrow delay

blizz fails

 

[indomitable1319]

Looks good!

 

[Baintastic]

haha, thanks indomitable! I actually tried it out today over LAN. it wasn't too laggy but the other people kept getting stuck :-/

 

[indomitable1319]

Lol..?

 

[indomitable1319]

So how's this going?
I just looked at my subscribed threads and saw this.

 

[Baintastic]

lol, actually I sort of gave up on this one.
It did give me inspiration to write some awesome JASS functions for knockback, orbiting, and homing that I am now re-implementing in Assassins v4.0
That's actually what I've been working on lately

 

[.VTZ.]

Yay mario kart

 

[Baintastic]

Hahaha, did you try it out? I'm very proud of the gravity and water physics
Unfortunately from LAN testing, it was too choppy to keep working on :-/
It makes me wonder how other people make successful arrow-key-triggering maps.

 

[indomitable1319]

Hey Bain! What's up?
I haven't checked on this project on a while.
Are you focusing on Assassins?

 

[Vunjo]

Hi again. You probably remember me, cause I made the terrain in Assassins map, and I wanna do the terrain here as well. Please reply soon.

 

[Baintastic]

Hey Vunjo, you can make some terrain for this map if you want to
If I remember, I'll send you the latest version when I get home.
To be honest, I haven't really done anything with wc3 since I put out v4.0 of Assassins.

Hey Indomitable
Not much, I've actually been spending a lot of my time building a lyrics website (lyricsync.com)
How's life?

 

[indomitable1319]

That site looks good.
I'm fine here, and I'm getting my ass kicked by pro assassins players.