Drift Stage thread

[cave hermit]

So this appeared on Kickstarter a day or two ago:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/19 ... rift-stage

It's basically a really polished arcade racer with heavy focus on drifting, which is done by letting go of the pedal for a second and then tapping the brakes. There's an early alpha demo out that has a single time trial course with staff/personal best ghosts, and apparently the finished product will have a career mode, standard races, time trials, track editors, and most interestingly (IMO) randomly generated infinite courses using time extend checkpoints. I just tried the demo, and it feels really good: the frame rate is really smooth (although it seems to stutter heavily at certain points at least on my laptop), the controls are quite responsive (I'm actually playing using a madcatz fight stick through joy2key), and the demo course seems pretty well designed as far as I can tell.

I'm seriously considering tossing a few bucks their way despite my usual wariness towards crowdfunding attempts, but regardless Super Systems has already gathered nearly $19,000/30,000, so it looks like it'll be successfully funded.

I don't get hyped about upcoming games too much anymore, but I'm actually a bit excited about this!

[KAI]

Looks nice, hope the drifting mechanics don't suck

randomly generated infinite courses using time extend checkpoints

That's the most stupid idea I've heard in years.

[Pretas]

Looks like it was made by someone who didn't realize that UK Resistance's "Sega Blue Skies" article was a satire piece. I think I'll play OutRun 2: Coast 2 Coast again instead.

[cave hermit]

By the way, here's the playable demo:
http://supersystems.itch.io/driftstagealpha

[Ruldra]

We're having a competition over at Rolling-Start. Feel free to join us over there.

http://www.rolling-start.com/forum/view ... f=34&t=385

[jonny5]

Backed. Looks interesting

[cave hermit]

Just clocked in at 01:20.490 !

[DoomsDave]

Love the art, music and general feel of the game. I know it's alpha but man the drifting is really awkward. Hopefully the spend a lot of time polishing that up.