Games: Car Racing, NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver, Atari
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Opening another Pandora box?
Pixel Wheels started as a vertically scrolling arcade game: a single car, randomly spawned enemy vehicles arriving from the top, kind of like the old Spy Hunter game. Then I opened my first large Pandora box when I thought: "Wouldn't it be cool to turn this into a racing game?"
This took quite a looong time, because a racing games means less dumb enemies, they would have to follow a track, learn to use bonuses. It also meant being able to compute the player rank in the race, which proved to be surprisingly tricky given the way tracks are defined.
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 525.47.06 out now
NVIDIA has released another fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, with version 525.47.06 rolling out now. This is the special driver series that's aimed at developers, or anyone who needs the newest Vulkan extension work before they eventually roll into their main driver series.
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Atari announce another 80s classic revival with Caverns of Mars: Recharged
Another revamp of a classic is on the way with Atari once again teaming up with SneakyBox, as the 1981 title Caverns of Mars is releasing as Caverns of Mars: Recharged.