Anything Can Be a Kart Racer | Article Now Published

OrangeRKN wrote:

DarkRula wrote:

rinks wrote:Schindler’s List.

This one is difficult, I'll admit that. Part of it stems from not wanting to be controversial...

Love that you tried to consider this seriously

Think the controversy is inevitable as soon as a race starts and the announcer says "step on the gas!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_van

Kancer Kart!

You start each race with a perfectly healthy cart, but as the race progresses parts of the cart start to malfunction (e.g. wheels grow lumps) and eventually the cart will die - don't forget to pass through the radiotherapy pit stops to try and keep it at bay! Beat the oncologist's predicted lap-span for bonus points!

Kall Of Duty Kart!

Race around a track whilst normalising gun violence.

Jesus Octoroc!

Herdanos wrote:Goemon himself already appeared in Konami Crazy Racers (which I never played) on the GBA

It's a good game, you should check it out. Another kart racer on a Nintendo console I preferred over Mario Kart!

OrangeRKN wrote:Jesus Octoroc!

Yeah, sorry. Venting a bit there.

Has bloodborne Kart been posted yet?

rinks wrote:Kart macht frei.

Okay we're workshopping this for the 90s magazine advert.

Kartbeit macht frei, surely?

Or Arbeit Kart Frei?

Abeit macht Kart sort of makes grammatical sense but loses the sound-alike to the original phrase.

aayl1 wrote:

rinks wrote:Kart macht frei.

Okay we're workshopping this for the 90s magazine advert.

Kartbeit macht frei, surely?

Or Arbeit Kart Frei?

Abeit macht Kart sort of makes grammatical sense but loses the sound-alike to the original phrase.

I know it’s less punny, but doesn’t mine make literal sense? If the karts are a means of escape(ism).

Ah you are right but I never even stopped to consider that, possibly because of the lack of punniness. I'd still plump for Kartbeit macht frei, myself.

aayl1 wrote:

rinks wrote:Kart macht frei.

Okay we're workshopping this for the 90s magazine advert.

Kartbeit macht frei, surely?

Or Arbeit Kart Frei?

Abeit macht Kart sort of makes grammatical sense but loses the sound-alike to the original phrase.

The Holocarts

SEP wrote:

aayl1 wrote:

rinks wrote:Kart macht frei.

Okay we're workshopping this for the 90s magazine advert.

Kartbeit macht frei, surely?

Or Arbeit Kart Frei?

Abeit macht Kart sort of makes grammatical sense but loses the sound-alike to the original phrase.

The Holocarts

I'm so going to hell.

Moggy wrote:Tetris.

You start the race as one single block, but as you race you can collect other shapes and make your kart bigger, faster and stronger.

See, Tetris would have so many ways to make it a kart racer. Build a kart with Tetriminos, items as Tetrominos, even playing Tetris while racing to power up the speed of your kart. That last one would probably be too distracting, so I'd say you just pick up Tetrominos and they get autoplaced in the best way to get lines.

Trelliz wrote:The "morose walking simulator" genre like dear Esther, gone home, Tacoma etc could be a difficult one, not sure how you translate walking around a static environment reading sad notes into a kart racer.

Hmm... Rather than just race around a track for three laps to come first, the game challenges you to grab parts of a note on the track to build up a full one, which would act the same as finding one. But along with that, you have to fight your inner thoughts, who can grab pieces of those notes. Would still be a tonal shift considering how jolly kart racers usually are.

Alvin Flummux wrote:I would eat up a Star Wars kart racer. I don't think there's been anything in that vein since the days of Super Bombad Racing and Pod Racer 64.

There's so much more material to work with now, so many more weapons, characters, worlds, graphical styles, enough to fill several kart or other racers.

Funnily enough, I'd already done this one last year. Along with pod racing, which would be the main feature, this one explores other racing disciplines in the Star Wars universe, including speeder bike racing, starfighter racing, and even more unique ones such as the pit racing seen in the book Rogue Planet and crest racing which has only ever been mentioned as being a sport.

Ironhide wrote:The Divine Comedy (the 13th century epic poem, not the band)

Just looking at the Wiki on this has me thinking that the adventure mode of a game could easily adapt this. Three tracks for each of the three areas it goes, with three characters (stretching the material to get those characters) per area plus the character the journey is about.

DarkRula wrote:

Ironhide wrote:The Divine Comedy (the 13th century epic poem, not the band)

Just looking at the Wiki on this has me thinking that the adventure mode of a game could easily adapt this. Three tracks for each of the three areas it goes, with three characters (stretching the material to get those characters) per area plus the character the journey is about.

It definitely needs to be about the nine circuits of hell.

Ironhide wrote:

SEP wrote:

aayl1 wrote:

rinks wrote:Kart macht frei.

Okay we're workshopping this for the 90s magazine advert.

Kartbeit macht frei, surely?

Or Arbeit Kart Frei?

Abeit macht Kart sort of makes grammatical sense but loses the sound-alike to the original phrase.

The Holocarts

I'm so going to hell.

You watch anime man we're all going to hell

DarkRula wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:I would eat up a Star Wars kart racer. I don't think there's been anything in that vein since the days of Super Bombad Racing and Pod Racer 64.

There's so much more material to work with now, so many more weapons, characters, worlds, graphical styles, enough to fill several kart or other racers.

Funnily enough, I'd already done this one last year. Along with pod racing, which would be the main feature, this one explores other racing disciplines in the Star Wars universe, including speeder bike racing, starfighter racing, and even more unique ones such as the pit racing seen in the book Rogue Planet and crest racing which has only ever been mentioned as being a sport.

I'm not sure you could stuff a single game with that many different racing types and have it not feel like Mario Party, but, I mean, I wouldn't turn it down. The kart game angle could feature about any mode of Star Wars transportation imaginable, up and downscaled to fit the scale of the game. Super Bombad HD!

For a game with a bit of a more "serious" tone, I would pick a couple of the most recognizable racing types and focus on them. Pod Racing, Starfighters, and Speeders, would probably be the optimal three mechanical forms to use, as they cover the breadth of most people's knowledge of Star Wars sports.

There's a lot of additional possibilities, like animal racing (rancors, wampas, acklays, all the greats), jetpack racing, etc., but they'd probably be best bundled together.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

DarkRula wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:I would eat up a Star Wars kart racer. I don't think there's been anything in that vein since the days of Super Bombad Racing and Pod Racer 64.

There's so much more material to work with now, so many more weapons, characters, worlds, graphical styles, enough to fill several kart or other racers.

Funnily enough, I'd already done this one last year. Along with pod racing, which would be the main feature, this one explores other racing disciplines in the Star Wars universe, including speeder bike racing, starfighter racing, and even more unique ones such as the pit racing seen in the book Rogue Planet and crest racing which has only ever been mentioned as being a sport.

I'm not sure you could stuff a single game with that many different racing types and have it not feel like Mario Party, but, I mean, I wouldn't turn it down. The kart game angle could feature about any mode of Star Wars transportation imaginable, up and downscaled to fit the scale of the game. Super Bombad HD!

For a game with a bit of a more "serious" tone, I would pick a couple of the most recognizable racing types and focus on them. Pod Racing, Starfighters, and Speeders, would probably be the optimal three mechanical forms to use, as they cover the breadth of most people's knowledge of Star Wars sports.

There's a lot of additional possibilities, like animal racing (rancors, wampas, acklays, all the greats), jetpack racing, etc., but they'd probably be best bundled together.

Oh, sure. It wouldn't make sense to have everything in a single game, but as a series with one main event and two or three smaller ones, it'd be quite good.

As for the kart racer angle, Microfighter-like vehicles with each character having a vehicle specific to them. So, yeah. Pretty much Super Bombad HD. Except featuring more of the galaxy and galactic events than just Phantom Menace.

You provided, and I delivered.

With this article, I selected four of the ideas posted here to turn into a kart racer, each trying to dig into the themes of those properties to make them stand out from the typical fare of kart racer. And then, to end things, I also turn GRcade into a kart racer.

Take a read and see what you think.

DarkRula wrote:You provided, and I delivered.

With this article, I selected four of the ideas posted here to turn into a kart racer, each trying to dig into the themes of those properties to make them stand out from the typical fare of kart racer. And then, to end things, I also turn GRcade into a kart racer.

Take a read and see what you think.

Hehe, great stuff, Rula - I certainly was surprised to see The Divine Comedy featured . I had to go and look-up what canticle meant!

Homoured that you used my ridiculous concept.

I'm not going to hell.
I"m atheist so it's oblivion for me .