Catze

Factsheet

Developer:
Catze
Based in Germany

Release date:
August 27, 2021

Platforms:
Steam (PC / Mac)

Website:
https://tinyurl.com/y3tfcc8p

Regular Price:

Description

Race with style in this minimalistic arcade racer. Throw the weight of the car into twisty corners and feel the slides. Beat AI, friends and ghosts from the leaderboard. Choose your favorite playstyle, ranging from classic top down to arcade chase cams!

History

Development of Star Drift Evolution started a couple months after the release of the first Star Drift on Steam. Star Drift, released in February 2018, was Catze's first project and laid the foundations for Star Drift Evolution. During the last 2 years, the game system has been refined and finetuned to offer a more exciting and less frustrating experience. The result is Star Drift Evolution. Star Drift Evolution takes the multiplayer arcade action and visuals of retro top-down classics like Super Off Road, Micromachines and Skidmarks and mixes them with a pseudo-simulative physics-based gameplay to offer an experience that feels familiar and refreshing at the same time. Star Drift Evolution was programmed in Unity and Blender was used for the 3D environments.

Features

• Minimalistic but challenging gameplay: easy controls with hard to master car physics! It's all about steering and sliding!
• Track variety: simple dirt ovals, advanced mixed surface racing tracks, hardcore gravel and snow rally tracks! Enjoy a high variety in difficulty and style
• Car variety: over 50 cars with balanced power, differing in speed, acceleration, grip and downforce, including customizable liveries
• Campaign: race against the AI and beat fixed times to progress through the campaign with over 75 Tracks that get increasingly difficult
• Flexible camera system: highly customizable, ranging from top-down, to 3rd person bird-view, to closer behind-the-car and hood cameras
• Leaderboards: compete for the best lap time on each track, as well as a global leaderboard measuring your total performance across all tracks
• Replay Viewer: watch any replay from the leaderboard and choose from several camera angles, inlcuding a freefly drone camera for cinematic screenshots and clips
• Multiplayer: online Trackmania-like (e.g. no collisions) multiplayer and 4 player local split screen to play with and against friends (collisions can be enabled in this mode and career challenges can be done in coop fashion)
• Daily Challenges: compete with other players on a fixed track/car combination every day
• No grind: unlock tracks and cars naturally as you progress through the campaign and be competitive right away
• Instant Play: start a race with just 3 clicks! simple and clean UI to get you racing quickly

Star Drift Evolution Credits

Caspar Prasuhn
Designer, Programmer, Artist

Marco Calcaterra
Design Assistance, Community Management, Testing

Kenobit, Bisboch, Luke McQueen, Buromaschinen, Nihilore, Electroshark
Music

Contact

Inquiries and request for codes
stardriftevolution@gmail.com