Trackmania Races
A blue and a red race for Trackmania
Category : Mods/Racing game
Role : Level Designer
Duration : 1 week
Presentation :
As part of an exercise during my training, I made two races with the track editor of Trackmania Nations Forever.
The exercise included several constraints. First of all, I had to realize two races, one of blue difficulty with a time for the gold medal of two minutes, one of red difficulty with a time for the gold medal of one minute and a half.
It was also necessary that at least one of the two races had a jump and that at least one of the two races had a portion on the ground.
My work as a level designer:
I started by making the blue circuit. It is a loop where the players have to make two turns.
Since it is only a blue difficulty, the turns are pretty wide and there are few difficult parts, such as dodging obstacles.
For the red circuit, I wanted to do something more spectacular. However, in order to respect one of the constraints, the start of the race is on dirt before having a jump to pass on the road part.
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As, it is a red race, the track has several difficult passages like the slalom between the tubes or the passage on the narrow vertical wall.
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Finally, I wanted to add a little subtlety for the finish. Indeed, most of the time, you have to go as fast as possible to get the best time. On my race, there are two finishes that we reach after a jump.
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One is much further away than the other and to get the optimal time players need to slow down slightly before the jump so as not to pass over the nearest finish.
