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My Summer Car Game

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It isn't shown in the video, but you have to put the whole car together from parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0TxB9rspI

Btw, the developer is the same guy who is known from the sports documentary (enable subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOjmGxK5EQ

In the first video he adjusted the valves with the valve cover off and the engine running ... did this madman simulate movement of the valves, cam, pistons, etc? To do it at the granularity needed to make that valve adjustment an organically arising need would be too computationally intensive I think. But how far did he go?

Doesn't matter - this guy is great.

This will be the greatest art project ever about genuine finnish culture.

Almost every finnish man has lived this fantasy in the summer when he was 18. It needs also small town with girls - if you are drunk enough and your music from stereos is louder than anyone else's, they will come to back seat of your car for the drive.

The video on that page is worth watching, game itself is really impressive: https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M

Tweaking the car parts and putting bolts into place reminds me of an absolute DOS era classic called Hot Rod [1].

[1] http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/34/street+rod+2+-+the+next...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzAdeySo0Xk

I miss Motor City Online.

I loved street rod so much... hard to reproduce it.

Gearhead garage, was based entirely around the assembly/disassembly aspect, with 3D graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75coXr23Pc

There's something really wonderful about that 90s web aesthetic, as tacky and free of design sense as it is.

I've been noticing that same transformation in my own perception of webdesign.

As I become more and more jaded about web "3.0" flat this, paralax that, my font is bigger than your font bullshit, the more nostalgic I become about default browser styles and table layouts from the 90s.

oh and the colours =)

I miss when most content was there because someone thought other people might find it interesting/entertaining/useful, as opposed to because they wanted to drive daily pageviews.

The pricing policy is great!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mysummercar/discussions/0/6...

   IMPLEMENTED:
   * Walking simulator
   * Car stereos with installable subwoofers
   * Camera to take photographs
   * Parts shop for spare parts and tuning parts
   * Does have graphics of some sort

Priorities! :-D

Reminds me of X-Plane in the old days (note the massive changelog on the home page): https://web.archive.org/web/20040203100812/http://www.x-plan...

Clearly the passion project of one very detail-oriented developer.

X-plane is of course still around.

http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/home/

This is the funniest video I have seen in my entire life and I saw some pretty damn funny videos about llamas.

The guy is hilarious yeah. A little bit too much beer too

So it's like the Dwarf Fortress of driving simulators?

I would play this. Incredible work, so much detail going into the actual car.

I rather appreciated his dry humor in the YouTube video, it's worth the watch even at 60 minutes.

Greg Anderson [1] from the Arcticstartup summed it up nicely: "My Summer Car ... is better described as bored Finnish guy in the 90's simulator."

[1] http://arcticstartup.com/2015/04/14/my-summer-car-looks-like...

I love the sound of jingling beer bottles every time he closes the car door.

Oh. Furry dice.

I had never thought of the reason why people put furry dice in their rear mirrors - apart from knowing the "I know it's kitsch and I want it" part - but this triggered be to look it up.

And according to study linked by Wikipedia, it's not even actually suggesting a reckless driving style: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8166776

I don't know if it's real, but it's awesome.

Seems like it's real. The creator's put out a lot of videos of gameplay and development.

drunk driving simulation too wow

https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M?t=22m28s

It's going to have saunas too. Insta-buy!

Did the avatar say "perkele" after chugging the beer?

Yes of course.

And the natural result: https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M?t=31m30s

develop'per reminds me of Raikonnen! 5

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