Funny, I chose UPBGE for 4 reasons, non of which effect depsgraph much:

1. EEVEE
2. I know how to use Blender
3. The GPL License ( because I want my game to be GPL’d too )
4. I know how to use Python

So I never felt like I’m missing out on Geonodes or whatever. And depsgraph was only an interesting challenge to tackle.

The idea here, is that it is not a huge inconvenience for them to push just a little bit to become Free Software.

A video about version 07-07-24 : https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/gGdUU84yreyB4f8zC269ir

Dani’s Race version 07-07-24 is almost released! https://blenderdumbass.codeberg.page/files/DanisRace_07_07_24/

I made a very basic multiplayer support for this game. We tested it with a few friends. It is somewhat working.

Launcher and settings.

Working on new fire stuff.

Nothing too complicated, I just implemented a day-night cycle.

That is a neonspeedster with a spoiler.

New release 27-06-24

Now with a tuning system. ( For now only nitrous and spoilers )

https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/1XtUWKKyxkjieZRi68NU6v

https://archive.org/details/danis-race-27-06-24.tar

There are now fixing and coloring tools. ( Those are kind of like the guns in this game lol )

New Release: 23-06-24

https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/bjYn41Qmxa5NTdPqNpX4ht

https://archive.org/details/danis-race-23-06-24.tar

Changes:

Fixed Scene 2 ( almost )
Fixed Entering cars
Added back the Hatchback
Made cars more explosive
Added animations to Jack
Added Jump Animation to Dani
Fixed swimming

Added a settings system
Added a settings UI ( GTK )
Added a savings system
Made so it saves cars in garage.

I made it so it saves what cars you have in the garage.

The car is in the game.

I decided that this car will have a spare tire.

Making doors to some background NPC cars. ( That you can steal of course ).

There was a whole big problem with character trying to go into cars and no being able to do so. So I had to come up with some solution. This is so far the best I did. They are facing with the one side at the center of the obstacle ( sensed by the ray ) and walk forward.

Also I made passengers sit on a different side of the car ( available only for 2 cars atm )

And yeah, Jack has no animations yet.

New release: 20-06-24

https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/c3bE1FJnAN9vHp4GZuYp1o

https://archive.org/details/danis-race-20-06-24.tar

Changes:

• Added second mission
• Added one more race ( Big Building )
• Added Moria
• Added Jack
• New ( unfinished ) system of co-driving with NPCs and them reacting to Dani’s driving.

Managed to make him sit with me while I race. But that is just hilarious.

Bugs keep piling up. I drove all the way to another race and Moria is in the car. What the hell?

Those NPCs lol

Breaking my brain, working on the story. But everything is so silly, it’s amazing.

Jack is running in the game.

This is for his standing pose. I don’t know if there will be any standing animation. ( He is supposed to be a more shy / awkward character. )

Okay Jack looks good in this outfit. Now rigging. ( I mean, making him work for the game )

I’m adding Jack now. The problem with him is that he needs to be probably not in the racing uniform since he is no longer racing actually. I may actually make him wear the same stupid hat that the Paps is wearing. I don’t know about it. The racer for the team now is Moria.

Main post

I have not just started the project. So I will outline the project so far in this post.

From between 2020 to 2023 I was making a short film called “Moria’s Race” available here. During the making of the movie an idea of a game came to me. And so now I’m making this game.

The game is a story continuation of the movie.

The game is about Dani, the brother of the main character of the film. And his racing.

Style of the game

The game is open world ( though the world is not that big. A small-ish town with a racetrack, from the movie ). The character is free to roam around anywhere. And at this point can take any car to drive in.

There will not be any cut-scenes. The story and other events will just happen in the game during the game-play.

The cars and a a lot of the world is breakable but it’s not trying to be a wrecking simulator.

Basically think of something like GTA meeting Flat Out 2 but it’s for kids.

Videos

I am publishing videos about this on Peertube. You can see the playlist here.

Playable builds

Since the game is not finished there are no files that just run by themself. But rather, there are packages you can download which you can open in the game engine to play them. They are available here.

Game Engine / License

I’m using a fork of Blender called UPBGE for this. So the game is GPL - compatible. All of the code I wrote for the game is under GPLv3+. The art ( those I did myself ) are CC-BY-SA The game contains other files ( mainly sounds ) under various other compatible licenses.

I decided to use UPBGE specifically for the fact that it is copylefted. And also because the movie was made in blender and UPBGE just lets me reuse the assets almost directly. ( I had to do minor changes, mainly for optimizations, but also I made cars breakable and stuff. ).