Swervin Mervin: A recreation of 80's-style pseudo-3D arcade racing games, written in Python and Pygame.
Accelleration and steering is performed via the arrow keys.
Here is a small video of me playing (poorly).
Note, this project is purely an exercise in enjoyment and my first foray into Pygame. Any pointers are welcome!
Ensure that you have the pygame llibraries installed, and then:
$ python swervin_mervin/main.py
- Jake at codeincomplete.com and Lou at extentofthejam.com for their fantastic articles on the subject.
- My beautiful girlfriend, Mel, for all of the original pixel art.
- LazerHawk and Miami Nights 1984 for the music.
- Out Run (1986) for "letting me" use some sprites.
- Jim Gillette and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa for the sound bites.
- SoundBible and FreeSFX for some sound bites.
- User notification of + or - to score during gameplay
- User notification of high score either during or directly after game
- Random time extensions dropped onto road
- Pedestrians that penalise points when hit
- Allow for multiple levels (easy, regular, hard)
- Refine collision offsets for sprites
- Car sound effects
- Smoke when player accelerating from 0
- Position (number of
laps + base_segment.index) - Package better for distribution (ship with Pygame?)
- General refactor and Pythonify of sloppy code