23 April 2000

The Latest News

There's been a lot of progress this month, although most of it has involved designing new missions. Anyway, here's what I've been up to since last time:

• Different types of terrain now offer varying levels of grip.
• People now have shadows.
• Motion blurring is now supported.
• Memory allocation has been made more efficient, reducing the game's footprint by 4 Mb, allowing the game to run confortably on a 16 Mb Amiga. As a side effect of this, the game also loads slightly quicker.
• Explanatory text now appears on screen when you pick up bonuses, gain score or lose health.
• The gameplay has been extensively tweaked and lots of bugs have been fixed.
• More missions have been written and more of the city has been designed. In fact, this forms the bulk of the work done this month.
• Due to popular demand, it's now possible to handbrake turn your vehicle - which is especially fun if you happen to be driving a bus!
• Decorative objects, such as cones and barriers, have been added.

Well, that's all for this update. See you next time!

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