NEODRIVE

Tear through a solo campaign in a drif!t-happy stick-shift muscle car. Find better and better drift lines and manage your nitro to beat your previous times. Unlock new wheels via achievements.

Wishlist on Steam if you're interested!

There's a community Discord server as well.

Features

• over a dozen tracks with four medals each, including the fiendish Author Medal
• 5 different wheels to slap on your car
• fully manual or paddle shifting option
• constant updates with new tracks

Instructions

• To start the car, hold the clutch down and press START
• To launch the car, shift into first gear and release the clutch while holding down the gas
• The engine makes peak power around 6500 RPM
  
• Unless you're launching the car, dropping below 1500 RPM will stall it
• Shifting down into a gear that requires a higher RPM than the engine is capable of (money shift) will also stall the engine
• Launching at peak power is a perfect launch, and is acknowledged
• Rev matching your shifts is also acknowledged

Controls

• LT: Brake
• RT: Gas
• LB: Clutch
• RB + Right Stick: Move Camera
• Right Stick Up (with clutch pressed): gear up
• Right Stick Down (with clutch pressed): gear down
• Left Stick: Steer, flip vehicle if turned over
• A: handbrake (tap A to disable TCS and start a drift, hold A for handbrake)
• D-Pad Up: Switch between first/third person
• D-pad Down: Enter photo mode
• Y: Boost (when meter is in the blue)
• Back (the left button on the xbox controller): pause
• clutch in + pause: respawn (otherwise X on the controller)

Driving Tips

• When you enter a turn while braking, you need to rev match. Otherwise, you'll transfer weight hard onto the front wheels and possibly lock up the car's steering. This is also true in real life. But unlike real life, if you're fast enough to rev match while braking, you'll be rewarded with nitro points for a perfect downshift and get to maintain balance through the turn.
• Drifting also gives you boost.

You can gain boost from drifting, turning at the limit right before TCS kicks in, and rev-matching your shifts.

Other info

• engine sounds generated by EngineSim Community Edition
• car engine is a recreation of the March-Buick 85G IMSA GTP
• other sounds are Unity assets and CC-0 stuff from freesound.org
• exo-prototype car model is designed by me
• all the ui is PNGs generated via code by p5-js
• tracks are curved with the Spline Architect Unity package
• fonts are a mix of Bebas Neue (title) and IBM Plex Sans (body, including this text)

FAQs

• Why Money? 
  I want to buy EngineSim 3D when it comes out to synthesize even better engine sounds. Also possibly a terrain integration addon for the spline utility I'm using to dynamically generate the roads
• Why no Web build?
The game is demanding enough in the graphics and audio departments that it will run terribly in webgl. Also, some of the shader hacks I'm using for smoke and water won't work in browser.