Smash Da Gas is a new browser based multiplayer racing and stunt driving game created by me! I’ve been working on it (as a one man show) since August 2011, and it is now done. By done, I mean I’ve developed it to the point that I am going to start marketing it. I am calling it a beta release. All game functionality and artwork is complete. I plan to add more cars, tracks, and customizations over the next few weeks/months.
Game features:
multiplayer freestyle hangouts
3 unique race tracks (more to come)
multiplayer racing with wagering (of virtual dollars)
secret passages to hidden freestyle parks (currenlty just one)
I’m currently running my own in game alpha/beta funding type thing in which players can “be a millionaire for the price of a sammich!”. I am giving players 1,000,000 virtual game dollars for $4.99. They also get membership in the Alpha Team, which is a private group on my forums that gets to discuss and vote on new game features, and has early access to new cars, tracks, and customizations.
The Unity forum members have been a great help to me in developing this game. As a thank you I am offering the sammich/A-Team deal above to you all for free. Just PM me with your Smash Da Gas username and I will credit your account. I have to do this manually, so it may take a little time.
Congratulations on getting this to beta. I have signed up and paid my $5 but still only have $10,000 in game after refreshing. Is there a delay in getting the transaction to appear in game?
Not sure how easy it is to do but I would make the Millionaire offer a lot more obvious. Currently its pretty hidden. Maybe promote it when the game first loads and keep a button up permanently.
Anyway great job. I hope you get loads of players signing up.
Thanks, Tony! I will look into the payment thing right now. Sometimes PayPal takes a few minutes, but I will credit your account manually if there is a problem.
I’ve fixed the problem now. I made a change to the game this morning that I did not think would affect the payment system, but it did. You may need to clear your browser cache to get the newly uploaded version of the game. I just did a test sale and it worked properly, so your million bucks should show up next time you log in. If there is still a problem please let me know.
Great Game!!! If I wasn’t so busy working on my own game, I’d go play this for sure!!! My kid however, enjoyed it for the last 30 minutes, I’m sure he will be back soon.
A few bugs have become apparent with more players. I’m aware of the “please wait” bug, but haven’t had time to fix it due to family/holiday obligations. Hope to release a fix late tonight.
After I made this original post I re-did the multiplayer code. I’m using UnityPark Suite and they came out with a new version that has some features I really needed. So my overhaul fixed some bugs and introduced some new ones that I am trying to fix now.
I made a similar game called “Big Time Racing” just prior to this one. BTR was done in Flash (pre GPU acceleration) and due to non-GPU 3d it never lived up to what I wanted. So I started remaking it in Unity in August 2011. I originally planned to port it back to Flash, but the Unity to Flash port had too many limitations so I decided to go with the Unity Web Player.
The project took WAY longer than I had anticipated. But it was my first Unity project so I had some naive concepts of how long things would take. I also went back and increased the quality of the graphics when I decided it would be a Unity Web Player game rather than a Flash game.
The biggest time sucker, that I had not anticipated, was the GUI. I used EZ-GUI, which I like, but even with it GUI creation is much slower than in Flash.
In retrospect, I now realize this project was a bit too big for me to do alone. But, since I had basically done the exact same game in Flash a year before, I thought I could get things done faster. My next project will either be with a team or much, much smaller.
I just sent out my first press releases and blog/review site emails on Friday. Not much response yet, but it is only Sunday. But the game is fairly expensive to run, with servers and upkeep, so it will need to start gaining popularity soon or I will need to either sell it or shut it down and move on. I kept tweaking, putting out little feelers, and waiting for some kind of viral word-of-mouth Minecraft type thing to happen, but so far it has not.
It’s not a problem, i wait that your game have no bug, but if you are “GO” ? then i post your game Wed 6 Fev ?
Are you OK ? it’s french people, but i have too people from around the world
Too, no single race ? with AI car ? how won the money without this … because i have seen score board at funny park, but only the good car can do this time … And for have a good car, need money …
30 min after, i have try yet the multiplayer race, and bug, but i think i understand this bug :
Funny park, create multiplayer race, preloading map, recreate multiplayer race, race ok … (it’s yesterday)
play timetrial race, create multiplayer race, race not OK ( today )
And after, i can do like yesterday, but it’s bug … ( maybe because preloading time trial … )
Too, when i return at funny park, the other player are freeze …
I think you are not OK for i post your game on my website … but don"t worry, i like your game, but this bug can to be prejudicial for your popularity … You need fix the big bug before to have the popularity
I removed the AI races because I have been unable to make the AI cars work well. I may add it back in, but for now it is just multiplayer and time trials. My hope is that players will wager against each other to gain money. Every registered player gets $10k, so they should have some money to wager. If people are not willing to wager I may have to change things.
Thanks for the bug report. I will look into it today.
