PlayStation5 Racecar Crashers

For my Master's year at university, my cohort were tasked in creating a full game prototype using our previously developed PlayStation5 game engine. We must follow the SDLC and consider sales projections, marketing, plan out a budget and timeline, and pitch our prototype to a publisher that the university invites for us.

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This project is still in development however, I can provide details of the project thus far. 

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The team consists of myself and 3 other programmers and we all contribute to the low-level development of additional systems to our previous engine. 

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Our vision is a racing game inspired by MicroMachines where friends compete to be the last car standing. You can eliminate your friends by knocking them off the track or by stalling them with items and racing ahead. You could end the race early by eliminating all of your friends, or be the fastest racer to complete all laps.

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My primary contributions to the project so far have been:

• Implementing local, couch co-op multiplayer and handling controllers dropping in and out of sessions. 

• Implementing the game over podiums with a leaderboard system that persists over all race tracks.

• Implementing the core mechanics of calculating the current race position of each connected player, eliminating the player when they are off-screen, and updating the camera along the track whilst not being fixed to one player.

• Refactoring my original collision system in the engine to allow for OnCollisionEnter, OnCollisionExit, and OnCollisionStay. 

• Refactoring how lighting is applied to the scene, this was originally implemented hastily in the engine.

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Below are some recent images from development.