Getting under the hood of racing games
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Franchise development director at Sumo Sheffield Steve Lycett dissects the history of racing games and how developers can steer their games to success.
[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Are Driving Player Engagement With Race Events
Game Refinery
JUNE 15, 2023
The rise of hybridization in mobile games has resulted in game developers experimenting with new gameplay mechanics and features from other genres to drive engagement, something that’s often done via limited-time events. Race events are most commonly active for a few days at a time, during which several races can be initiated.
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#Drive Rally by Pixel Perfect Dude is a love letter to the golden age of rally games
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 29, 2024
The low-poly racing game, developed by Polish indie developer Pixel Perfect Dude , feels like a love letter to the PlayStation 1 era of rally games, where you could actually name the top drivers and the cars they drove. We want it to appeal to both casual gamers and racing enthusiasts.
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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months
PreMortem.Games
JULY 4, 2023
As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. Over time, however, idle gameplay started to increasingly develop their meta as well, where a player is also offered various events and mini games.
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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success
Game Refinery
MAY 4, 2023
Analysts have widely reported developers’ ongoing challenges with user acquisition targets as they wrestle with stricter app tracking policies, especially on Apple devices. These mechanics are unconventional for a racing game but aren’t surprising. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.
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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events
Game Refinery
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay. Take the aptly titled Coinpetiton event as an example.
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Roblox working on adding "4D generative AI" tools to its platform
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 27, 2024
In a recent post to its blog , the developer explained that 4D generative AI will focus on interactivity when creating people, objects, and environments. These 4D generative AI tools aim to make 3D objects more dynamic by using generative AI text or voice prompts to create a drivable race car, for example. Read more
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Slow and steady wins the race: How Dwarf Fortress reinvented itself after 20 years
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 26, 2023
The life's work of brothers Tarn and Zach Adams (under the name Bay 12 Games), it has been in active development since 2002. Dwarf Fortress is an oddity across the games industry. Released in public alpha in 2006, the original Dwarf Fortress reached the status of cult classic over the years, with a dedicated, hardcore community. Read more
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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024
Logic Simplified
APRIL 1, 2024
Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. Is it well-defined?
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2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 25, 2021
Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Access all of our previous predictions.
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Rumble Racing Star brings kart racing to Web3
Game Daily
JULY 10, 2023
Rumble Racing Star is a Mario Kart-alike with Web3 elements, published by DeLabs Games (part of 4:33 Creative Lab) in South Korea. Quinn Kwon: We were looking at different racing genres and we were inspired by lawnmower racing culture. It’s a really casual racing game.
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Daniel Macharia’s bold leap from banking to video games
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 11, 2023
He decided to leave his career in banking for video game development a month before his 25th birthday. Beyond his role at ADMI, he passionately nurtures ChezaCheza , his game development studio. He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars. I had never held something that vibrates before.”
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Zordix launches Maximum Entertainment and restructures its studio organisation
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
It's not just a rebrand, with parent company Zordix making a series of changes that brings its various publishing and development companies together. Joining these studios is Romanian developer FUNLabs, which Maximum Entertainment has acquired for an undisclosed amount.
Deathgrip by Reclaim Interactive takes us back to the podracers of the future
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 14, 2023
I think racing games have fallen out of favor because there’s a lack of innovation as they focus more on graphics and realism than creativity and feel”, says founder and Art Director Brian Young. “But Young got his podracing fix through the Star Wars Episode 1 Racing games (SWE1R).
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EA cutting "small number" of staff as it sunsets two mobile games
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Electronic Arts is set to lay off "a small number of staff" due to its decision to close two of its mobile titles: EA Sports MLB Tap Sports and F1 Mobile Racing.
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Former Criterion leaders set-up new AAA games studio Fuse Games
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 16, 2023
The veterans who left Need for Speed developer Criterion in December last year have reunited to form a new AAA studio: Fuse Games. The new outfit has been founded by studio general manager Matt Webster, head of content Steve Uphill, head of production Pete Lake, head of technology Andrei Shires, and head of operations Alan McDairmant.
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Hypercasual games market keeps shrinking, still 3.38 billion downloads last 3 months
PreMortem.Games
JULY 12, 2024
a remarkable +100% QoQ; read a full case study on Supercent’s games); Car Race 3D: Car Racing (+22% QoQ); Race Master 3D – Car Racing (+4% QoQ); Going Balls (+0.1% QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.
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How to Build Better Live Events with the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker
Game Refinery
AUGUST 22, 2024
With 95% of game makers developing or maintaining a live service game, live events have become one of the most important elements of finding and maintaining success in not just the mobile market, but PC and console too. You should start thinking of your LiveOps strategy from the moment you start developing your game.
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Little Racer – General and Development
The Knights of Unity
JULY 7, 2020
Toys for which you had to build a track yourself and then simply put them on it, and race with your friends just by pressing a button! You can play campaign mode with your friends or/and with AI, build custom tracks and then race on them in the party mode! Development. But what Little Racer is really about? . You got it!
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Hypercasual games market continues to decline, but still nearly 3 billion installs this quarter
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Lastly, the snake design closely resembles Snake Run Race by Freeplay, a game with 71M installs. The second group was more likely to complete the task (34% vs. 19%), showing that even a small sense of progress makes people more motivated to put out toward the final goal.
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Activision updates Call of Duty code of conduct to combat toxicity
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 24, 2024
This update focused on refining the "Treat Everyone with Respect" pillar of its code of conduct, highlighting that it does not tolerate "bullying or harassment, including derogatory comments based on race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, culture, faith, mental or physical abilities, or country of origin, or the amplification (..)
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How Milestone turbocharged the ‘Hot Wheels Unleashed’ franchise with Amazon GameLift
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
When game developer and publisher Milestone released a third-person racing game based on Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy line, “Hot Wheels Unleashed,” in September 2021, it quickly gained a dedicated following. The game sold more than one million copies in less than three months, making it Milestone’s fastest-selling title ever.
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Drive-Up Your Revenues with Seasonal Events
Game Refinery
MARCH 16, 2023
Valentine’s Day skins in the shop) + UI changes Of course, giving your UI a refresh isn’t going to do much when it comes to bringing in revenue, which is why most developers give their cosmetic items, such as skins, a seasonal makeover too. Zombie Frontier 3’s Christmas content Event-related offers (e.g.,
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Web3 metaverse MMO Avalon unveiled in new trailer
Game Daily
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Ambitious multiverse and Web3 project Avalon’s first trailer dropped yesterday, as well as details of the experienced development team’s plans for the game. ” IN OTHER NEWS Unity 6 announced At Unite 2023 in Amsterdam, Unity announced the next version of its game development engine, Unity 6, set for release next year.
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Triband finds the absurd in mundane things “You never expect a car to have legs”
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
is a racing game featuring a car on legs. and car racing the team prides itself to know very little about these particular activities. So, Triband games are funny, we established that, but behind the scenes the team is serious about the development. Triband is a studio that creates comedy games. Their latest title What the Car?
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Gorilla Softworks’ debut game The Ancients aims for prehistoric realism
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 16, 2023
We consulted two anthropologists while building our technology and culture trees to reflect the prehistoric cultural and technological progress of the human race”, he says. We are a team of 5 developers”, says Şakar. “We Trying to develop an indie game on the scale of a AAA title is the reason why a lot of indie studios fail.”
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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 11, 2023
Top 10 Games By Downloads The top 10 downloaded games of Q1 2023 shows a couple of old-timers that don’t want to give up their positions: Going Balls , Bridge Race , Car Games 3D: Car Racing , Tall Man Run and Race Master 3D – Car Racing. You can read about these games in more detail here.
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How to Choose Your Board Game’s Theme
Brand Game Development
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Instead, I’m going to borrow from the model I used in Five Levels of Communication through Game Development and use the term “internal narrative” from this point on. Five Levels of Communication through Game Development.
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From Buckles to Games: The Journey of Rex Bowden and Africa Games Week
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 6, 2024
In a church filled with diverse races, I was exposed to lots of different people even when it wasn’t allowed in South Africa.” Bowden proposed taking African game developers overseas with government funding, to which Hall enthusiastically agreed. So, buckle up as we embark on this joyous ride down memory lane with Bowden.
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List of most popular video game genres in 2023
Logic Simplified
JULY 11, 2023
To this day, game developers continue to blend already existing genres, sub-genres, and types in new and surprising ways to provide players with more options. This video game genre includes sub-genres like racing, combat, team and sports-based fighting game. Racing Games In racing games, the players take part in a racing competition.
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Navigating the World of Big License Holders as a Small Game Developer
Deconstructor of Fun
JULY 15, 2024
By prioritizing authentic relationships and showcasing creative concepts with sincerity, developers can navigate this complex terrain. Approaching license holders Let’s start with the fact that each license holder may have different motivations for partnering with developers.
IP Should Be the Next Big Thing in Mobile Gaming
Deconstructor of Fun
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Trademarks are called to protect the link between a producer (game developer) and service (game) in the eyes of consumers. The main question is whether consumers playing a game are tricked into thinking that the game was developed by someone else. Mobile game developers face rising production and UA costs and a lack of financing.
Autonomous AI Outraces Gran Turismo World Champs
Nvidia
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
the developers behind GT Sport. The autonomous AI racing agent, known as Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy), recently beat the world’s best drivers in GT Sport. Racing AI, however, poses more complicated inference needs with innumerable variables from different cars, tracks, drivers, weather, and opponents.
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Stumble Guys vs. Eggy Party: Which Fall Guys Clone Is the King of Mobile?
Game Refinery
JANUARY 5, 2023
Developed by Kitka Games and acquired by Scopely Games in September 2022, Stumble Guys is a knock-out party game with a similar visual style and gameplay mechanics to Fall Guys. Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps). You’d be forgiven for mistaking Stumble Guys for Fall Guys.
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From Music to Games: Dominique Gawlowski’s journey to shaping Free Lives’ culture
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 2, 2024
This warmth is a hallmark of Free Lives, the South African indie game development studio behind Playtopia. Despite her parents being anti-games, she enjoyed racing games on her brother’s old Commodore and formed strategic friendships with kids who had Nintendos. The welcoming atmosphere was unforgettable.
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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. ” Why did you become a solo developer?
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 1, 2022
You can follow the developers on Twitter and Mastodon , and wishlist the game on Steam. Physics: Fix physics/3d/run_on_separate_thread race condition in WorkerThreadPool ( GH-67680 ). What's new. If you're interested in an overview of what's new in Godot 4.0 beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0
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Everything You Need to Know About Highways & Byways So Far
Brand Game Development
AUGUST 18, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. It’s essentially a race game. It has been about five months since I first started working on Highways & Byways.
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2020 Predictions #10: Playbook to reach the Top of Sports Games
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).
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2022 Predictions #3 Sports Games Get Beaten from a Pillar to a Post
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
PlayerWON provides gamers with opportunities to earn valuable rewards in exchange for choosing to watch TV-quality brand videos – all while driving engagement, retention, lifetime value and additional revenue for developers. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. EA’s Real Racing represents 70% of the revenues in Racing Simulator.
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Nixie game aims to highlight British Blackness
Game Daily
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
London-based developer and YouTuber David Akinola is working on a game called Nixie , that was the focus of a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. David Akinola: I run a YouTube channel called The Storyteller where for a couple of years I discussed race issues, politics and nerd culture and community.
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How Pride Was Celebrated on Mobile in 2022
Game Refinery
JULY 27, 2022
Last year, the company distributed an exclusive rainbow-colored car to players in CSR2 Racing to commemorate the event. Companies like Wildlife Studios and Zynga donating to causes related to LGBTQIA+ issues, either from profits made from Pride-related sales or otherwise, is a development we like to see. Conclusion.
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