Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving

An anonymous reader points out a project called Drivey, which he describes as "a dark and fascinating example of 2.xD [not quite 3d] graphical rendering. This tiny, free [as in beer] demo gives you an amazingly compelling driving experience. To quote the author, 'It was conceived as a driving simulator for old farts like myself, who are kind of nostalgic for the "old days" [ca. 1985] but are not so thick as to believe that the games from the 80s were actually in any way superior to the games we play today.' Even works fine under WINE!"

Trojan?

[p0]

.exe? Is this an attempt to takeover the entire slashdot community? or... none of them for that matter? :S

I found a rather obvious bug...

[_Shorty-dammit]

Dude's driving on the wrong side of the road.

Bonus Code Fu Courtesy of Bill Gates

[mikeophile]

This [drivey.com] is supposed to be the last software professionally written by Bill Gates.

Even though probably no one much ever played this primitive bit of DOS/BASIC demo software [purportedly the last piece of professional software ever written by Bill Gates!]

Good to see he ended on such a high note.

Re:Anyone tried it yet?

[spectrokid]

hey, I'm at work and that never stopped me so far!

Fatal error:

[Ceriel Nosforit]

Fatal Error: Driving on the wrong side of the damn road.

Frivolties aside, if realism isn't the goal, why stick to our boring terran transportation? I think the game would be really cool if some ideas were stolen^W^W^W inspiration was taken from Wipeout, letting some big air jumps enter the game. Why not take a little from Tribes aswell and add the jet boost-thing?
Mix well and the result is a toe curling orgasm^W^W^W hit for sure.

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Re:2.5D graphics rendering

[Anonymous Coward]

"Take a large light source like the sun and bring it to a position above and behind the wall."

No-one mess with this guy!

Re:2.5D graphics rendering

[Anonymous Coward]

> Imagine a very flat wall.

Ensuring that it's at least 25% flatter than your everyday, ordinary flat wall...

Re:Howto Make it a Screensaver in Windows

[sammy baby]

Thank you for reiterating reason number #432 that sysadmins go crazy trying to secure windows.

Re:Howto Make it a Screensaver in Windows

[otherniceman]

As far as I remember yes, including cmd.exe! Must check to see if that is still the case :)

Re:I cannae see shit, cap'n!

[CdBee]

Now that's got me thinking.



I might get the roof-bars fitted to my Mondeo tonight and strap a webcam to them.. all I'd need is my laptop set to record straight to mpeg...

Waiting...

[vurg]

So when will the hot coffee mod come out?

Re:Well, gee whiz

[wintered]

Run Linux you noob

Way, way too unrealistic...

[TintinX]

I mean, come on. Pedestrian crossings on such a major road? I think not!

Re:Missing link

[nospmiS remoH]

Looks like a pretty crappy game. Who wants to play a game who's only screenshot is a white background with:

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /drivey/ on this server."

written on it. Sheesh.

Don't worry!

[Anonymous Coward]

I scanned it with Norton Anti-Virus.

Re:Uh, what?

[justforaday]

Hell, even Mitnick showed that the front door is usually easier to get through than the back door.

Seeing as how he's spent time in federal prison, I'm just gonna hafta take his word for it... : p

This looks familiar...

[tut21]

Just what I've always wanted, a New Jersey simulator.

Re:Well, gee whiz

[Anonymous Coward]

Since you seem to be new to slashdot, let me assure you that you are perfectly normal.

Re:tried it

[dukerobillard]

Most games overdo stuff with graphics when they could focus on content.

Yah--it's like TV. The problem with my TV can't be solved with a Wide Screen, HD Plasma Monitor, it can only by solved by the producers hiring some writers.

Re:Anyone tried it yet?

[supernova87a]

here's a cool trick, add the other cars using the "c" key, and then drive into their oncoming lane with arrow keys. You actually can crash the cars!

Re:Howto Make it a Screensaver in Windows

[doconnor]

You now have a screensaver which doesn't exit on mouse movements or key presses :-) (You can exit Drivey by pressing ESC).

Not only is it a cool screen saver, it's secure too.

Re:I cannae see shit, cap'n!

[Mercuria]

Now take this project and combine it with Google Maps and it could be very interesting...

Congratulations, you've just invented the new "imagine a beowulf cluster of ..."

Re:Burnout ruled

[sfontain]

15 years on, and loads of people still play lemmings. The emulator scene for old 16 bit machines, and even old arcade machines is bigger than ever. All these people can't be wrong.

It's weird how "All these people can't be wrong" is an excuse for lousy graphics.

Yet if I said, "87 million PC users run Windows; All these people can't be wrong," there would be a bitchfest the likes of which humankind has never seen. Funny how this works...