Concept
The concept for my midterm is simply my interest in arcade racing games and love for cars. I was inspired by car games such as Asphalt and Forza which I played for most of my childhood and with the knowledge from the class I felt compelled to try and implement some of these games in the best way I can. My objective is to come up with a visually engaging and simple game where a player navigates a car in a street road avoiding obstacles(oncoming traffic).
Other than that, I was eager to come up with something that will be 100% user engaging unlike my other projects and creating a game seemed to cater for this. I wanted to enhance user experience in my projects while also maintaining the good visual style which is appealing like the other projects.
Design
My design is centred around user interaction. It is a user engaging game where the player has to manouver the car across three lanes in all directions with the use of arrow keys and avoid obstacle cars. The background is a road, while the cars on canvas are specifically chosen to be sleek and easily distinguishable. As the player progresses, the game becomes increasingly difficult since the game speeds up gradually. I thought that this design will enhance the game clarity and ease of control, ensuring that the player quickly gets the mechanics but still feel challenged.
Frightening/Challenging Aspects
The most frightening parts while drafting and planning the project was how I will handle the collisions between the cars. This is the most crucial part for the game to function thus I can’t afford any errors in it.
Another challenge might be how I will balance the increasing speed of the game.
Risk Management
To counter this challenges, I did some research on how I can handle collisions and it turned out to be a really simple mathematical logic to compute. I was able to come up with an algorithm that calculates the distance between the player car and the obstacles and since the cars are rectangular it might be easy to handle.