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http://www.scrapsgame.com/

http://scraps.gamepedia.com/Scraps

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nition/scraps-customisable-vehicle-combat-for-windows-mac

 

Back in the late 90s I played Interstate '76, which as part of its generally brilliant execution included a multiplayer melee mode where you selected a vehicle, customised its loadout, and went into combat. A while later I played a couple of other notable games. One was Stratosphere: Conquest Of The Skies, which had some horribly clunky gameplay, but it let you build a flying fortress in a similar way to how Scraps lets you build a vehicle, and that part was brilliant.

The other was LEGO Racers, which let you build your car from scratch in a way that Interstate '76 didn't, but with disappointingly little real effect. Horrible un-aerodynamic designs with no space for an engine simply worked as if by magic.

I want to be able to build a car that sucks. A car that falls over whenever it corners or only has enough power to fire its guns once a minute. I want each component you place to actually have a function, and have a physical effect. Not to the point of adding needless complexity to the game, like having to wire everything together; just obvious things, like your vehicle being lop-sided if you put all your guns on one side.

All of the above games came out last century. I've been waiting so long for someone to make a game like this that I gave up and I'm making it myself. I'm excited about this project because I finally get to play it.

I've been wanting and thinking about a LEGO vehicular combat game for a while now, and considered prototyping one for fun. I'm glad I don't have to; it already exists! Well, it will. I guess it does. But it's not done yet. Visually, it looks very... prototype-y (it's being made by a single guy with no set release dat or pricing)... But the gameplay looks cool. Might be something neat to keep track of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVma2lix78

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I'm just going to be the first to say, the sound is hella annoying. Definitely needs an overhaul there.

 

Otherwise this concept isn't new, there's a bunch of new robo games where you construct vehicles for fighting and there is more advanced ones, that, depending on how you build it, you can make flying, mechs, underwater machines.

 

It doesn't look like this has anything over those.

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Got any links to those other games? I'm interested. The name Robocraft comes to mind, but I haven't looked into it... Perhaps I will.

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Got any links to those other games? I'm interested. The name Robocraft comes to mind, but I haven't looked into it... Perhaps I will.

The one I was mainly referring to with building all different types of things was RawBots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XPIS_aA4lrc

Last time I looked the development was going well, going back there again to get this it looks like the devs have gone silent on this one.

 

http://www.rawbots.net/page/rawbots

http://robocraftgame.com/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/payloadstudios/terratech-physics-based-vehicle-construction-and-c

http://fromthedepthsgame.com/ (more boats, planes, ships)

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Wait, is this official?

... What? Did you read this topic?

 

Apologies, I did not read any of the links. I saw the part where you mentioned LEGO Racers, but I didn't see any LEGOs in the gameplay video. 8S

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The links aren't important to figuring out what we're discussing in this topic - actually reading the discussion (or even just lightly skimming the OP) before you reply is, though...

I've noticed that you've been posting some things like this around RRU lately - asking questions when the answers are right in front of you; they couldn't be any more clear than they already are. Could you try reading as well as writing? Thanks.

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