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.