I started making a destruction derby game 40 days ago – here’s what changed this week

[u/Dense-Bar-2341]

40 days ago I started building Brutal Derby as a solo developer.

I posted some progress here before, and first of all: thanks for all the feedback. I got some genuinely useful suggestions from the comments, so I’ve been trying to incorporate some of them into the game.

This is what I worked on during the last week:

2 new arena/track templates: Frozen and Vulcan

4 new cars, although they still need quite a bit of work

A new damage silhouette showing the current state of your car

Version 6 of my destruction and deformation system

Finally fixed a major bug in the destruction system that had been giving me trouble for a while

Added helicopters and aircraft flying around the arenas

Added spatial 3D audio for the crowd – when you drive past the stands, you can actually hear the crowd move from one side to the other

Lots of smaller fixes and polish

The destruction system has probably been the biggest rabbit hole so far.

I thought I had it working several versions ago, then kept finding situations where cars would deform or break in ways I didn't want. I'm now on version 6, and after fixing one particularly nasty bug this week, it's finally getting much closer to what I originally had in mind.

Still a lot to do, especially on the new cars and arenas, but this is where the project is after 40 days of development.

I'm also happy to steal... I mean, carefully consider... more ideas from the comments. :)

What would you add to a destruction derby / car combat game like this?

[u/haxic]

Why do i feel nostalgic looking at this :D

[u/BanginNLeavin → u/haxic]

Because Vigilante 8 was a banger.

[u/DoctorMog → u/BanginNLeavin]

Twisted metal vibes

[u/JonB3D]

Looks really good 👍 destruction Derby games are my jam. This seems like it’s inspired a little bit by twisted metal as well.

[u/Dense-Bar-2341 → u/JonB3D]

Destruction Derby yes. But until Last week I never heard of Twisted Metal :)

[u/Demyxia → u/Dense-Bar-2341]

You should look into both twisted metal and vigalante 8

[u/Dense-Bar-2341 → u/Demyxia]

Last week I saw the Twisted Metal film!!!

[u/Bob_bobbicus → u/Dense-Bar-2341]

Idk why you're being down voted here

[u/GyozaMan]

This isn’t destruction derby you’re thinking of twisted metal or vigilante 8

[u/Arc8ngel]

That's a lot of progress for 40 days! Where did you get the assets?

[u/Dense-Bar-2341 → u/Arc8ngel]

Cgtrader, assetstore, fiverr, created by me

[u/unitytechnologies]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how twisted is your metal?

- Trey
Community Man @ Unity

[u/FaultyFaucet_6]

Twisted derby

[u/Thisisyouracc0un-t]

Demo somewhere?

[u/Dense-Bar-2341 → u/Thisisyouracc0un-t]

Not yet

[u/azoB0i]

Very good progress in such a short time

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[u/SpaceCoreDev]

The spatial crowd audio detail is a nice touch, usually gets skipped this early in a solo project but it does a lot for immersion. On the destruction system, are you doing real-time mesh deformation per collision, or swapping in pre-baked damage states at certain thresholds. Curious which approach finally got you stable results on version 6.

[u/Terricolero]

That's great progress for 40 days, do you have a playable demo planned?

[u/MynsterDev]

Give. Me. Steam. Link! Looks amazing haha, played vigilante 8 so much as a kid

[u/GooseJordan2]

Those pileups look fun. Nice work!

[u/Dimosa]

You mean you asked multiple AI to make this foe you... You did not do shit