I’m extremely pleased with the recent resurgence of arcade-style racing games that’s currently happening in the indie dev scene. I mean, sims are cool and all but, to me anyway, nothing will ever top the feeling of a good arcade racer. So far we’ve seen a lot of stuff inspired by Sega’s work in the genre but, surprisingly, not a whole lot of devs have tackled futuristic combat racers a la F-Zero and Wipeout yet. Montréal, Québec-based developers Dopagames are looking to channel the spirit of those titles into their upcoming game Super Pilot, and it’s looking great.
Super Pilot has only been in development for a few months but it already looks like a ton of fun. The developers are including a track editor with the game too so those of us who never got to experience the F-Zero X Expansion Kit back in the day (aka everyone reading this post, probably) will finally get to create their own roller coastery deathtraps to race on. I can’t wait to give this one a go.