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Punk Street Hazard

• 2 min • 368 words
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Core Concept

Punk Street Hazard is a street-racing game inspired by “Need For Speed: Carbon”, it features team based races around our very own Cities modelled after Malawian cities such as Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba, and Mzuzu. The player will complete races to progress through the story and unlock various cars and car upgrades.

Main Features

Story

The protagonist is an aspiring mechanic who went into debt and now has to raise money through underground street races to repay his debt while at the same time uncovering an illegal smuggling ring.

The protagonist will build a crew of various racers with different skills and cars, races will require various team members. The types of crew skills include: Drag, Scout, and Blocker, The crew will earn reputation and progress to higher and more difficult races and new locations.

Visual Style

Most of the scenes will happen at night in a highly modified version of Malawian cities to have a 80’s American style - neon lights, both modern and 80’s cars, arcade style car physics. 1980’s cars inspiration

There will be various car types from Muscle, Tuned, and Exotic, the race tracks will be modelled to favour different car types.

Interesting Mechanics

The game is heavily inspired by “Need For Speed: Carbon” mainly it’s team-based races. The race mechanics will feature various skills based on their abilities:

  • Drag: Drag racers go in front of the player’s car to reduce drag and when released boost the player’s acceleration. Drag cars feature high acceleration and speed but lack strength and are easily pushed around and have bad handling.
  • Scout: Scout racers reveal shortcuts in the race map and rely race information to the player while racing. Scout cars have the most stable handling and manoeuvre turns very smoothly but lack speed, acceleration, and strength.
  • Blocker: Blocker racers have one job and is to take out the competition, the car boast the highest strength allowing them to push around other cars, clear spaces, and slow down other racers. However, the cars are extremely slow and bad at turning.

The player has a special ability could speed sense which slows down the gameplay allowing them to pull off physics defying turns and avoid crashes.