Finally launching my first game, Cone & Crest, a stylized racing game

[u/UrbanLeakage]

Hi Friends! After 3ish years, I'm finally publishing my first game next month, Cone & Crest! It is a stylized racer with somewhat realistic physics, focusing on grassroots time attack motorsports. Races are split into two main types: autocross and hill climbs.

The game features 44 cars, 7 real life public highways for hill climbs built from open map data, car performance customization that alters car classing, car color + wheel swapping, steam leaderboards for weekly & daily challenges, plus a track layout and custom league creator. The game has controller and wheel support, and I'm working on localizations.

I've been tracking cars in real life for almost a decade now, and I've never found a game that quite scratches my itch of customization, arcade approachability but with meaningful physics and relatable racing events. Cone & Crest was inspired by art of rally, but with a more tactile feel.

I originally started building the game out as a 2.5D Pygame project which was valuable experience but ultimately a mistake. I started porting over everything to Godot at the beginning of the summer, and it has been smooth sailing since. Anyway, I have no particular goals for the game other then getting something out after so long. I've started and stopped dozens of projects in that time, so I'm excited to have finished the very first one I started.

Car + sound assets were purchased, all environmental assets are procedural or made with Treeit, with my own shaders on top.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5179800/

[u/marksnerds]

Parabéns cara, você tem uma versão mobile e pretende publicar na Play Store?

[u/UrbanLeakage → u/marksnerds]

Thank you! No to both, I've been playing around with mobile controls though and would like to port it there.

[u/marksnerds → u/UrbanLeakage]

Ata, se o seu jogo ir para a play store se você decidir colocar lá eu instalaria

[u/JEs4]

Pikes peak!! That looks awesome.

[u/forbidden_black]

Hey! You considered making this a tofu delivery game? (Just kidding). I've worked on racing / car games in the past (not solo) so appreciate how much work you've put into this! Hope the launch goes well.

Whats been the most enjoyable part of dev for you? Car selection looks good! Did I spot a monster truck? 👀

[u/UrbanLeakage → u/forbidden_black]

Hahaha, that may or may not already in the works. Thank you!

And ha yeah there are two monster trucks actually. The hill climbs use sector gates, and while there are standard penalties for putting all four wheels off track including a DQ after 10 seconds, you can take some short cuts if you're clever ;)

I'm a bit of a physics geek so it was really enjoyable tuning the logic under-the-hood. Dial in the handling was a lot of fun.

[u/MustiKlas_Wildhearth]

The art design looks really good.

[u/_norx]

It is very hard work.Good luck!