Future Race Games

Ferra

....seem to be getting a whole new dimension added to them.
This has been in the news over on the continent though,
supposedly even Tv and Radio and all that.

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2009/05/iopener-takes-mirrored-racing-to-beta.html


and previously on BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7440658.stm

My cousin is workin for them back over in Germany
as a Programmer, says there are offering spots for
beta-testing. Their site is: http://www.real-timeracing.com

In total there are two Irish working on it, so
if this thing takes off, we can claim it to be partly Irish!

The tech side seems relatively simple actually, even though
there are doing stuff noone has done before.

rizzla

An Irish girl helped develop and test Lips for the Xbox 360. She gave an interview on Major Nelson's podcast, doesn't mean it's partly Irish. Are there any Irish game development companies? I know of Goa Games at the end of Cork Street but they're mobile games, any Xbox, PS3 or Wii?

As for the game, it's a nice idea but I don't know how much I would care racing against real world competitors. Whenever I play a racing game I never cared who I was racing against, just as long as I come first.

Sabre0001

There's already games at it out there - Live For Speed, Race 07, GTR Evolution and iRacing. All feature tournaments and are often used by real life professionals. Adrian Sutil took part in a charity event in GTR Evolution in January - Link. Forgot how to refuel

Though the taking real time info on tracks is an interesting step.

Ferra

Well, of course the game feature wont technically be Irish, since its a German company....
all I wanted to point is that even though the Irish Game industry is virtually non-existing doesnt mean there arent any Irish engaged with it

I know about Havok, quite famous actually (though middleware), and I also heard about a company engaged in browser MMOG called Jolt