Swervin Mervin: A recreation of 80's-style pseudo-3D arcade racing games, written in Python over the course of way too much time.

Accelleration and steering is performed via the arrow keys. [ENTER] to start, [ESC] to kill the game in fullscreen mode.

And more info on the pixel art over at MelanieHuang.com.

Yes, it's real. Ships with MAME, SNES and NES (1000+ games). Want something similar for the office? Email me.

Ensure that you have the pygame libraries installed, and then:

  $ ./play

"It's no Sonic the Hedgehog"

And...

"You actually get points for killing people?"

And even...

"I've taken dumps that were more fun than this steaming assheap..."

Jake at codeincomplete.com and Lou at extentofthejam.com for their fantastic articles on pseudo-3d racing games.
My beautiful girlfriend, Mel, for all of the original pixel art.
LazerHawk, Miami Nights 1984, Timecop 1983 and Alverna Gunn for the excellent music.
Out Run (1986) for "letting me" use some sprites.
Jim Gillette, Macho Man Randy Savage and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Myself for the sound bites.
SoundBible and FreeSFX for some sound effects.
This project is dedicated to Adam Hillier (RIP), for his love of retro video games, and Zak Harvey (RIP), for his love of reckless driving.

!Design 2nd and 3rd level properly
!Congratulations sequence when game is finished
!Package better for distribution (ship with Pygame?)
Rethink player checkpoint logic to fix "time left" bug in pause and make countdown easy to disable/enable.
- Use current actual FPS to determine time left.
- Move all time/checkpoint stuff into game (or maybe level?) and out of player.
Local highscore file outside of git
Engine sounds based on speed
Screech sound and sprite when hitting tunnel wall
Walls
Multiple roads with forks
Get Mel to create art for: Bonuses, Tunnel roof, Other players, Other levels
Random boxes that penalise time-left when hit
Random boxes that give player temporary speed boost
General refactor and Pythonify of sloppy code

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