Rally Raid Game Homepage

The Game

Rally Raid is a 3D game for Windows, where you can drive like in a real rally. There are several races with several stages you can go through against the time and the opponents.

The project was started as Dakar 2012 Game, that contained only one race, but now the users can add their own races.

Current version is 1.0. Downloads are available.

Enjoy the game!

News

Update (build 176) for the first beta is published
2012-01-07

Update content:
  • add ground sound
  • add damage (but not visual)
  • some bufixes

Game runtime and base files are updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 172) for the first beta is published
2012-01-02

Update content:
  • add km to the default save game name
  • add stat about competitors that are on the stage

Game runtime file is updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 171) for the first beta is published
2012-01-01

Update content:
  • add penalty when miss WP(s)
  • change stage time calculation

Game runtime file is updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 169) for the first beta is published
2011-12-31

Update content:
  • added 9th stage
  • added changable difficulty
  • other small changes
  • bug fixes

Game base, runtime, and Dakar 2012 stages files are updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 167) for the first beta is published
2011-12-22

Update content:
  • added 5-8 stages
  • small changes
  • bug fixes

Game base, runtime, and Dakar 2012 stages files are updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 166) for the first beta is published
2011-12-14

Update content:
  • added some new objects: car, itinerary image
  • updated names to Dakar 2012 rider's list
  • added fourth stage

Game base, runtime, and Dakar 2012 base and stages files are updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 165) for the first beta is published
2011-12-11

Update content:
  • added some new objects: cars, navigation points
  • car changes: updated physical properties
  • updated names to Dakar 2012 rider's list
  • added third stage

Game base, runtime, and Dakar 2012 stages files are updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


Update (build 163) for the first beta is published
2011-11-20

Update content:
  • add new option to start the same resolution as the desktop
  • updated names to Dakar 2012 rider's list
  • car changes: updated Mini, added Volvo and new Toyota

Game base, runtime, and Dakar 2012 stages files are updated.

You can download the updated game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.


First beta is published
2011-11-08

Now you can download the game from the download page (bmw) or here (google). See the install instruction here.

There is only 2 stages ready in the Dakar 2012 race, unfortunately i have not much time to prepare further stages. But i try to create as many as possible to the start of the real Dakar. I can see now that i won't be ready on time, sorry for that!


Status Update
2011-09-27

First non-public beta tests has begun. Some improvements and bug fixes are added. Public beta coming soon.

Issue tracking is opened to receive comments, some already added.

There is still lot of things to do. But the first is to add stages for the Dakar 2012.


Change name from Dakar 2012 to Rally Raid
2011-08-23

I have changed the name of the project, because the game now can handle several races, so not Dakar specific any more. The "main" race remain the Dakar 2012 when i release the game framework, but later more race can be added.

The sourceforge will remain the main container to handle the source code versions as it was earier.
The project home page remain at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dakar2012/.
The homepage will be available on http://dakar2012.sourceforge.net and on http://bmw.homelinuxserver.org/rallyraid/.
http://bmw.homelinuxserver.org/dakar2012/ remains the homepage of the old project, but won be updated.

With this changes, the new project appear on google code. The source code will be also availabe at there, i don't know yet what else.



Small status update
2011-08-23

Since last update when i thought i was ready, i wasn't :) So i did a lot of things. I have started to play with the game, and not only in editor mode. I hope soon i can release a playable version with a stage.

Done:
  • base AI, and a improvement (failures)
  • working gameplay
  • working save/load game

To do:
  • improved AI
  • improved collision detection to give the right penalty
  • use the editor to create stages



Small status update
2011-07-07

The good news is that almost everything i planned is ready. Maybe one or more things need to be improved (see the todo list), but basic functionality should work and now i can start to create the stages.

Done:
  • road handling
  • editor
  • AI
  • gameplay
  • menu

To do:
  • the asphalt roads does not have physics as in Dakar 2011
  • improved AI

Details:

Road physics

I was able to add physics to the roads, but the hkpExtendedMeshShape in Havok is really slow. Newton Game Dynamics is much more faster in this cases (unfortunately it doesn't have a normal vehicle support). An idea is welcome for the road physics improvement.


Promo video - Dakar 2011 Game
2011-06-07

Thanks to Ermanno C. for this video!



Small status update
2011-05-02

Done:
  • Terrain handling (almost final): terrain smoothing, and larger terrain
  • Player handling
  • Race handling with editor

To do:
  • Road handling
  • Editor (final version)
  • New AI
  • New gameplay
  • Menu handling

Details:

Roads and editor

They are related, because the editor will be used to create roads.
Moreover the editor can be used to get informaition about the structure of the game, add new objects, add new races/days/stages, add roads, add AI points and modify the navigation objects.


Small status update
2011-03-21

Done:
  • Terrain handling (not final)
  • Object handling
  • Vehicle handling

To do:
  • Player handling
  • Race handling with editor
  • new AI
  • Terrain handling (final part and use roads)
  • Menu handling

Details:

Terrain

Now there isn't different terrain information for each stages. The whole earth is handled globaly, everything has a global coordinate.
Only the part of the player sees is loaded into the memory, and if the player is moving other parts are loading dynamically. (Mostly it was like in previous version.) So there can be race that goes along the whole earth in one "step". The drawback is the height data size of almost the whole earth is 10 GB (using zip, which is the only archive that i can use, because i can read it in a simple way).

The remaining stuff is to make the terrain close to the player more detailed.

Object

Now objects are appear if the player is close, and disappear is theay are far. Now they are handled in bunch. The bunch is determined by position, the objects which are next ot each other are put in a bunch, so they can easily created or destroyed.

A small todo is to make the visibility depends on where the player (camera) looks.

Vehicle

Now it is possible (again) to create vehicle dynamically on the game when it is necessary. As all part of the game, it uses the Havok physics engine.


Start the project
2011-01-26

The project has started.

General news
  • start from scratch
  • redesigned physics
  • new gameplay
  • new web page: feature and bug tracker

Major changes in the game
  • Change the physic engine from Newton to Havok (http://www.havok.com)
  • The Havok has a strict license, so the Linux version will no longer support, because there is no free Havok distribution for Linux. Later I can see what can I do with this.
  • Improve AI
  • Change Terrain handling.
  • Improved navigation system
  • Change menu: info/car settings menu at the begining of the stages
  • Add liaison part of the daily stage
  • And several smaller changes

Some details about the implementation will be later.