My Summer Car Game

http://www.johannesrojola.com/msc/

by pmcpinto • 11 years ago

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johannesrojola.com

blahedo• 11 years ago

There's something really wonderful about that 90s web aesthetic, as tacky and free of design sense as it is.

glaberficken• 11 years ago

I've been noticing that same transformation in my own perception of webdesign.

As I become more and more jaded about web "3.0" flat this, paralax that, my font is bigger than your font bullshit, the more nostalgic I become about default browser styles and table layouts from the 90s.

oh and the colours =)

PhasmaFelis• 11 years ago

I miss when most content was there because someone thought other people might find it interesting/entertaining/useful, as opposed to because they wanted to drive daily pageviews.

s3cur3• 11 years ago

Reminds me of X-Plane in the old days (note the massive changelog on the home page): https://web.archive.org/web/20040203100812/http://www.x-plan...

Clearly the passion project of one very detail-oriented developer.

jmspring• 11 years ago

X-plane is of course still around.

http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/home/

jluxenberg• 11 years ago

The video on that page is worth watching, game itself is really impressive: https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M

hip911• 11 years ago

develop'per reminds me of Raikonnen! 5

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sehugg• 11 years ago

So it's like the Dwarf Fortress of driving simulators?

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hayksaakian• 11 years ago

drunk driving simulation too wow

https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M?t=22m28s

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mcantelon2• 11 years ago

It's going to have saunas too. Insta-buy!

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joshuapants• 11 years ago

Did the avatar say "perkele" after chugging the beer?

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gulpahum• 11 years ago

Yes of course.

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teamonkey• 11 years ago

And the natural result: https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M?t=31m30s

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jimbler• 11 years ago

I don't know if it's real, but it's awesome.

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mcantelon2• 11 years ago

Seems like it's real. The creator's put out a lot of videos of gameplay and development.

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Xorlev• 11 years ago

I would play this. Incredible work, so much detail going into the actual car.

I rather appreciated his dry humor in the YouTube video, it's worth the watch even at 60 minutes.

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meshko• 11 years ago

This is the funniest video I have seen in my entire life and I saw some pretty damn funny videos about llamas.

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sebastianconcpt• 11 years ago

The guy is hilarious yeah. A little bit too much beer too

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hcarvalhoalves• 11 years ago

Tweaking the car parts and putting bolts into place reminds me of an absolute DOS era classic called Hot Rod [1].

[1] http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/34/street+rod+2+-+the+next...

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xellisx• 11 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzAdeySo0Xk

I miss Motor City Online.

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yaleman• 11 years ago

I loved street rod so much... hard to reproduce it.

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qbrass• 11 years ago

Gearhead garage, was based entirely around the assembly/disassembly aspect, with 3D graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75coXr23Pc

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smacktoward• 11 years ago

   IMPLEMENTED:
   * Walking simulator
   * Car stereos with installable subwoofers
   * Camera to take photographs
   * Parts shop for spare parts and tuning parts
   * Does have graphics of some sort

Priorities! :-D

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Pxtl• 11 years ago

I love the sound of jingling beer bottles every time he closes the car door.

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Geee• 11 years ago

It isn't shown in the video, but you have to put the whole car together from parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0TxB9rspI

Btw, the developer is the same guy who is known from the sports documentary (enable subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOjmGxK5EQ

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herdrick• 11 years ago

In the first video he adjusted the valves with the valve cover off and the engine running ... did this madman simulate movement of the valves, cam, pistons, etc? To do it at the granularity needed to make that valve adjustment an organically arising need would be too computationally intensive I think. But how far did he go?

Doesn't matter - this guy is great.

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ptaipale• 11 years ago

Oh. Furry dice.

I had never thought of the reason why people put furry dice in their rear mirrors - apart from knowing the "I know it's kitsch and I want it" part - but this triggered be to look it up.

And according to study linked by Wikipedia, it's not even actually suggesting a reckless driving style: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8166776

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yorak• 11 years ago

Greg Anderson [1] from the Arcticstartup summed it up nicely: "My Summer Car ... is better described as bored Finnish guy in the 90's simulator."

[1] http://arcticstartup.com/2015/04/14/my-summer-car-looks-like...

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xornor• 11 years ago

This will be the greatest art project ever about genuine finnish culture.

Almost every finnish man has lived this fantasy in the summer when he was 18. It needs also small town with girls - if you are drunk enough and your music from stereos is louder than anyone else's, they will come to back seat of your car for the drive.

My Summer Car Game

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