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Development Paused
November 07, 2025 by sevencrane
GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS The bad news, obviously, is that development on NEODRIVE has been paused. The good news is that I’m working on a new project with a professional animator and a professional mu... Continue reading
Steam page is up!
October 24, 2025 by sevencrane
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2804240/NEODRIVE/ Check it out, go wishlist! It’ll come out…eventually. Scope isn’t huge since I want to add dirt driving mechanics and mostly just more tracks... Continue reading
0.7.6 - How To Play
October 19, 2025 by sevencrane
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allow exiting photo mode with UI cancel added detail to the cars on the Arroyo Seco Parkway map made the cars on Arroyo Seco parkway move for real this time you can only get nitro for a clutch kick on... Continue reading
0.7.5 - Paddle Shifting minor bugs
October 12, 2025 by sevencrane
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fixed a bug where paddle-shifting down would put the clutch in so you could still manually shift allowed rotating the camera without holding the camera rotate button in paddle shifting mode added lens... Continue reading
Notes on Accessibility
October 11, 2025 by sevencrane
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#tech discussion
If you’ve played this game, and you’re not familiar with manual transmissions IRL, you’ve probably spent an annoying amount of time trying to start the car and get it to move, let alone accelera... Continue reading
0.7.4 - Paddle Shifting
October 11, 2025 by sevencrane
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new itch cover card. now on to changes of substance: added paddle shifting. you'll have to bind the buttons in the control remapper and enable it in settings. let me reiterate, in louder text: To use... Continue reading
How To Exit Collider Hell
October 09, 2025 by sevencrane
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#tech discussion
tl;dr: things break at high speeds This is true everywhere from physics to software development. In this case, the car would clip into the ground while taking a sharp turn. This would ruin runs on Des... Continue reading
0.7.3 - Security
October 07, 2025 by sevencrane
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Strongly recommend installing this one, as it fixes a bug with the Water 8 track and more importantly fixes a security issue in the application (thanks Unity). updated my unity editor and rebuilt with... Continue reading
0.7.2 - UI Polish
October 05, 2025 by sevencrane
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track load buttons now populate their medals when the main menu loads instead of when the campaign select enables them desert levels have some ambient desert sound fixed a bug where the main menu woul... Continue reading
0.7.0 - Orange Tracks
October 04, 2025 by sevencrane
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In addition to the new tracks, the muscle car should act more consistently in general. There's some shiny new UI in this update as well. added new tracks added a new wheel for an existing achievement... Continue reading
0.6.0 - Hydroplane
September 29, 2025 by sevencrane
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More tracks, mechanics, visuals, and sounds. The big one is hydroplaning . It's in two tracks as either a necessary mechanic or a hazard. added hydroplaning - at high speeds, you can drive across the... Continue reading
0.5.1 - Tunnels
September 11, 2025 by sevencrane
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Small update. added the ability to buffer shifts for 0.25 seconds. this makes shifting more consistent if you hit the clutch slightly after hitting the shift input fixed a bug with author ghosts not a... Continue reading
0.5 - Better physics, more tracks, new wheels, more
August 20, 2025 by sevencrane
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Sorry for the late update. Had some issues with the new 3D spline system and was dealing with some life stuff, you know how it is. There was a bug in the wheel collider raycasts that would sometimes c... Continue reading
3D tracks, wheel support
July 24, 2025 by sevencrane
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I buffed the muscle car. It now gains twice as much nitro while drifting. Main Menu now has track thumbnails and a new short intro track. Still working on the tutorial. There's a new settings menu wit... Continue reading
Ghosts
July 19, 2025 by sevencrane
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In continuation with this game being a Trackmania clone, I added medals (WIP with those sprites). Once you get gold, you can see my ghost in addition to your own. You can turn this off in game setting... Continue reading
Desert Speedway track
July 18, 2025 by sevencrane
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Added a new track, Desert Speedway. You can really open up the throttle on this one. Dev record is a 21 flat on a hot lap... Continue reading
Tutorial Level
July 17, 2025 by sevencrane
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Tutorial Update I added a tutorial Level, accessible via the main menu. Also some new assets and updated camera behavior on slopes. The car handles a little differently. I'm continuing the trend of ma... Continue reading
TCS/LCS
July 15, 2025 by sevencrane
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I made the car more powerful and increased its braking. To compensate, I made it more squirrelly if you lay down the gas coming out of a turn or lurch it on a gearshift going in. When you enter a turn... Continue reading
Checkpoints & Drifting
July 13, 2025 by sevencrane
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Added a little checkpoint course with some shipping containers, and updated the drifting mechanics. Also added nitro. Post your best time... Continue reading