[Unity] Touhou Kart - Early Alpha

[Iceman404]

I like the fact that you're actually thinking about what used to make the older karting games (Super Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing) actually fun, the physics. If you can get fun as hell physics down, I'm sold for this. (If, when you start the items, you get the generic homing one to move just like SMK redshells, I'd be double-sold for this).

The only thing I'd criticize is that the kart itself at the moment looks very "long". I wish it were a little more wide as well in design. This doesn't even need to be just stretching it horizontally, it could be adding bumpers that stick out so it looks less empty as seen here.

Maybe actually broaden the wheels too. (Shifter Karts are my personal favorite look: Low to the ground, as wide as a square, the small and squarish wheels, the block-bumpers on the side, the square rim on the back, and open design)

I don't even know if this would be of any use, but a friend of mine made some acceleration math for our old kart fangame a year or so ago.

Spoiler

"for every game tic that happens, the player will game speed recursively on their current speed on the game tic
accel = the char's accel setting
curspeed = the char's speed on this game tic
newspeed = the char's speed on the following game tic
maxspeed = the char's top speed
friction = the friction value the character is on. this could be ice or grass, or even heath. whatever the mapper set the friction value to, this will be used. in general, its best to keep ice at 120 maximum, and grass around a 30 minimum. basically speaking, if you want karts to go extra fast, use friction beyond 100.
boostpower = the amount of speed boost the character has applied to them. this number is added up based on the flags, then is multiplied into the equation.
flags:
default speed = +1.0 (start with this value)
mushroom = +0.5
star = +0.3
slideboost = +0.3
mega = +0.4
mini = -0.3
squished = -0.1

(this means a player can have up to a total of 2.2 times their topspeed legitly, because a star does not stack with a mega.)

newspeed = (((accel/40)*(maxspeed-curspeed)/40*friction*boostpower) + curspeed)

This means that if the maxspeed is greater than curspeed, speed will be added, and if maxspeed is less tha curspeed, speed will be subtracted. this allows karts above their max speed to slowly decelerate. And if the kart is dead on their max speed, the entire equation negates and their speed remains the same.

when turning, speed acceleration is kept the same. the game will see the angle of both the eyes of the player and the player's movement. it will determine the angle change, and divide it by 5, to get the new angle of movement, and the speed will be determined by the equation, to build a new verctor for each following tic. this will grant an smk-style turning. if a player hops before heading into a turn, they will be rewarded with a slide boost if they constantly turn into a direction above a threshold turning amount for a given amount of time. a player can be rewarded with a blue or orange boost, which will give extra speed to the player. 20 tics for blue, 50 tics for orange."

We could never really use it though because of engine limitations, sadly.