Fantastic Arcade Projects 2017-Drunk Driver, Multibowl

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Fantastic Arcade Projects 2017-Drunk Driver, Multibowl

Did these for the 2017 Fantastic Arcade in Austin.

Drunk Driver- for those interested picked up the cab completely stripped and gutted for $50. Custom software including a Beer button. Art work by Baby Huey. Added cars, police, buildings, and bars. Game ends with arrest, damage, or timed out. Incorporated numerous effects as BAC increases.









 
Multibowl- the Bennett Foddy project









Art is made up of screen caps from the 270+ games incorporated into the software.

Hopefully will be putting a large update on the site including software for 4 projects, accompanying artwork, etc.

Doc
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I've never seen 7" joystick shafts before.

Tell us more about that drunk driver game.
 
Drunk Driver is basically Night Driver but with extras. There is a beer button (soon to be an actual bottle and holder) in addition to start, steering, gas, and 4 gear shift. The beer button drinks a beer and increases your blood alcohol. This leads to a number of issues depending on blood alcohol content. These include delayed rxn time, tunnel vision, listing, double vision, nausea and vomiting, nystagmus, falling asleep, leaning over to search for a beer, glare/photophobia, etc. Points are awarded based on distance travelled and BAC. I added in buildings(including bars) and other cars (including police). If you stop by a bar and hit the BEER button, you drink three beers. The game is set to a five minute time limit though it can end if arrested or car damaged to immobility. You can get pulled over and ticketed for wreckless driving or speeding. The only color in the game is the police beacons which look more or less like a physical lighting effect. If you get ticketed or if you go out of bounds (tow truck), your score is fined. The game is basically done and seems to be a very stable build. Diagnostic mode was finished last weekend (book keeping, difficulty settings, controls/sensitivity, adjustments). I'll see if I can post some gameplay footage.

As above, I have been plugging away on projects which just need to be posted. This is one of them.

Doc

PS: Yeah, the Multibowl joysticks are a bit long but were on hand, so to speak. I think I grabbed them for a project with a wood CP but then didn't use them. Now it looks like I'm compensating in some way.
 
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Ill wait for the environmental version where you step out of the cockpit and into a drunk tank..
Funny, I was thinking more along the lines of having windows that you can roll up and have a cop standing there asking you to step out as you start to learn him some YouTube lawyer speech while videoing it on your phone as he breaks the window and drags your ass out and commences a WWE match on wrestling mats next to the game. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!🤣😂. Now that's an environmental cab!!
 
Funny, I was thinking more along the lines of having windows that you can roll up and have a cop standing there asking you to step out as you start to learn him some YouTube lawyer speech while videoing it on your phone as he breaks the window and drags your ass out and commences a WWE match on wrestling mats next to the game. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!🤣😂. Now that's an environmental cab!!

Fuck..that sounds way better.
 
I guess the subject matter is questionable. And I've had 3 friends die in drunk driving accidents (yeah which caused me to rethink the "fun" factor of it) but surprised this hasn't had more applause on Doc's behalf. This was a quick project for me but Doc made a really fun game.

I couldn't help but laugh when kids were playing it at Let's play and the parents were just sitting there laughing watching their kids play this highly questionable game, which only made me laugh more.

And not a single laugh at the GIANT Gary Busey cameo on the artwork.

Doc should post updated pictures.
 
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