Driver Unhinged

Arcade style shoot-em-up 2d racing game.

Win each race by either placing first, or by destroying your opponents before they cross the finish line.

Start with just a worn out old rusty taxi and a handful of cash to journey through epic races with prize money to upgrade your vehicle and purchase weaponry (including explosives) to best your opponents in exceedingly harder races.

5 vehicles can be purchased, each with a number of individual upgrades of their own and can be raced on 10 different tracks at 3 separate difficulty settings.

Game controls are as follows;

Arrow Keys - Drive / Steer the vehicle
Ctrl - Fire your weapons
Shift - Speed boost
X - Plant an explosive (if you have them)
ESCAPE - Exit the game / Open the Pause Menu

This is by no means a commercial product and has many shortcomings and pitfalls. I welcome any and all feedback as it will help with any future projects I pursue :-)

***LINUX USERS PLEASE READ***

This is a native windows app, however you can run it in linux with wine

Example for debian: apt install wine

Example for arch: (also needs to manually install 32 bit libpulse, otherwise there will be no audio output) pacman -S wine lib32-libpulse

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This game was coded from scratch in c++ using the olcPixelGameEngine. The images were created using Blender to model, and GIMP to rasterise / render the 2d in game assets. The music is all original compositions, written and recorded by me personally.  The voice over work was also recorded (albeit, poorly) by myself as well.  The vehicle sound effects were sourced under open license at soundscrate.com.

If you'd like to check out the game engine for yourself you can use the github link below: