Slightly Mad Studios made the white-knuckled, if flawed Shift 2 for EA. They’re now making something a lot more interesting: a racing game, Project CARS, where they’re getting help from fans to not just pay for the game, but to code it.
Because the team are short on the millions normally provided by a publisher, they’ve taken the approach of letting Joe Public in to help out in several ways, whether that be helping pay for the game or even chip in on the programming. In return, those putting in will get out, as they’ll get a share of the eventual profits.
Here’s how the game looks as of this week. Impressive! More impressive is that, rather than wait for a date in the future when you can play it, you can play it now if you sign up to help out.
New Video Trailer Kicks Off Busy Months Ahead [Slightly Mad, via PC Gamer]
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 4:57 PMlooks nice… also is the SPA they’re racing around? looks familiar
Pixel the Ferret Viking
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:00 PMhaving a second look, no not SPA, just looks familiar
Excelsior
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:14 PMTrack is Imola, former host of the San Marino Grand Prix. Also where Senna died.
Intercept
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:15 PMIt triggered memories of Grand Prix Legends. MMM that was racin.
otoha
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 6:15 PMCan’t wait to see the easter eggs that people add!
Chris
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:13 PMI had a crisis when Bathurst came into view at 0:45!
Sold!
Pixel The Ferret Viking
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 11:33 PMmy god, didn’t see that….
OH GOD I HAVE TO HAVE THIS
pat (not that pat)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:15 PMThat. looks amazing. And what a fantastic idea involving the community in that way. I really hope this works out to be the special thing that it could well be.
PiMan
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:15 PMInteresting concept, but it appears that to be eligible to contribute skills, you have to contribute money.
I’m not going to pay 10+ Euro for a job that won’t necessarily pay me back that much.
For those wanting to know the price of joining the dev team, it is 10 Euro at the junior level, increasing to 25000 Euro to join “senior management”. There a perks to joining higher up, but it isn’t worth it in my opinion; especially since one of the perks for management for management and senior management to the right to attend meetings in person… in the UK.
Nicholas
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:48 PMThis looks amazing!
Def buying it
Ezkaton
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 7:26 AMHad this for a while now, something still seems ‘off’ with the car physics.
Still seems kinda ‘floaty’ at times.
Most of the tracks are unfinished… missing a LOT of scenery.
The menus are horrible and confusing. My steering rotation keeps changing itself back to 360 degrees, making all the cars feel really twitchy.
Etc, etc.
Good in concept, flawed in execution (so far).
Johnny Sweetbread
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:37 AMYour idea to write a pretentious comment was good in concept, but flawed in its execution.
On the contrary, the idea seems to be working well. It’s an UNFINISHED product. It will have bugs and it will be missing stuff. I would’ve assumed that concept wouldn’t be that hard to grasp.