Holy crap! I just saw that my last post was from july 25th! That means that I’ve been badly neglecting my very own website! Shame on me!

Anyway, this post is going to be a legendary one as it is about a game that some people, including me, have created for the PGD Annual 2009. It’s called FUR and it’s a very, very, very fast arcade racing game.

We all know games like WipeOut, Extreme G, Roll Cage, Starwars Episode 1 Racer, F-Zero etc… etc… And some of these are very fast indeed. If you’ve ever played Roll Cage you’ll know what a very fast racing game is all about. We thought: let’s take this speed to the next level and create a bad ass racing game! And so we did.

There are 3 cars and 3 tracks in this arcade style game. With arcade style I mean that everything is arcade style. The driving is ridiculously fast, there is no form of realism whatsoever, the menu’s are extremely simple and there is even a coin-op system.

There are 2 game modes which are single race and championship. Single race costs 1 credit and champion 2 or 3 depending on how well you race. There is a time limit in which you must reach the next checkpoint or the game will be over. Each checkpoint adds a certain amount of time to the time you have left. So if you’re driving very good this time will expand to a point where it’s barely possible to lose on this point anymore. But if you’re driving like a slob you won’t even last till the first checkpoint.

Take a look at this page: http://www.necrosoft.nl/?page_id=653

This is the game’s page on my friend’s website. Here you’ll find some screenshots, a very cool promo movie that I made and a downloadlink. Go check it out and let us know what you think!

When you have checked it out, keep the following in mind before giving negative feedback on performance:

• This game is very heavy on physics, so a decent CPU is a must.
• This game is fairly heavy on graphics, so an integrated videochip like most laptops have probably won’t run this very well. You should at least have a GeForce 7 series card (with dedicated video RAM, no shared video RAM) or ATI equivalent.
• Although the game does run on Windows XP, I’d recommend Windows Vista or 7. I don’t think that the GeForce 7600GS in my old computer is causing the weird lighting, but it’s just that Windows XP is too old. But I could be wrong on that count. If so, I’d just recommend a GeForce 8 series graphics card or ATI equivalent.
• Use the config tool that is included to configure the controls and scale the performance.
• Make sure that the framerate will remain above 30 FPS at all times. If not, the game will become unplayable due to laggy input.
• The best way to scale the performance is to set the resolution to a lower level. If that doesn’t help enough, turn off the motion blur effect and if the game still doesn’t run you should go to a store and get a new computer.

Now… Go and click the link above and check it out and let us know how great this game is!

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