[Unity] Touhou Kart - Early Alpha

[Hoeloe]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play Mario Kart, or Crash Team Racing, with characters from Touhou? Well, hopefully sometime in the future, you won't have to! Because that's what this game is. Touhou Kart. You probably guessed that much. Anyway, this is a project I'm working on in my spare time (though I don't have much of that at the moment because exams).

I'm not entirely sure where the idea for this game came from, but it's been sitting up there for a while, and only recently have I got to grips enough with Unity to be able to make it a reality. So, first I'll show you what I already have, and then we'll talk about what the plan is.

There is a Facebook page associated with this project, so head over there if you feel like it.

Here are a couple of videos of some alpha tests:

The controls are very similar to those of Crash Team Racing. You can accelerate forwards and turn, obviously. The jump button also acts as the drift button. If you jump off a ramp, you'll boost when you hit the ground. You'll also boost when you stop drifting, as long as the smoke has turned black. If you drift for too long, however, you'll spin out of control, and have to accelerate from stationary again!

Essentially, that's what I have now, so let's talk a bit about what's planned.

The ideas are largely based on Crash Team Racing, again. There will be a story mode and a versus mode. Hopefully, the versus mode will be online! The story mode will feature 4 worlds, each with 3 stages and a boss race at the end. The stages will be against 7 other racers, while the boss will be one-on-one. Also, in each world is the "Sakuya Challenge". These are optional, and will be used to unlock bonus extras. These require you to race one-on-one with Sakuya on all 3 stages in that world, back to back. To win the Sakuya Challenge, you have to win all 3.

Currently, the planned character roster is as follows:

Reimu Hakurei

Marisa Kirisame

Tewi Inaba

Youmu Konpaku

Nitori Kawashiro

Suwako Moriya

Remilia Scarlet

Patchouli Knowledge

With the following as unlockable characters:

Cirno
Reisen Inaba
Aya Shameimari
Flandre Scarlet
Sakuya Izayoi
Renko Usami
Maribel Han

I know there will be some characters not on that list that people will be really wanting to play as, but I cannot make every Touhou character playable - that would be FAR too much work

Each character also has exactly one stage planned to fit with them, and each character will also have one item associated with them.

Now that we've discussed this, I do confess I need a little help. I'm currently working on this alone, but clearly this is far too much work. I'm happy to put the time into the programming and structure of the game, but I can't do that and the modelling as well, so if anyone here is willing to help by character or environment modelling for this project, you will be very welcome.

I think that's more or less everything I want to say at the moment, so I'll just leave you with this: Happy racing!

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