Sick Street Racer Press Kit

Live the life of an underground street racer - attend and host car meets, customize and upgrade your cars, make friends and rivalries with the local street scene, form your own crew and become the best racers in town.

Features

Note: Game is still in early development, features may or may not be added or removed depending on scope changes in the future.

Open World
- A small but memorable open world with three distinct areas.
- The city area, filled with towering buildings, tight alleyways, and lush park areas.
- The mountain roads, filled with touge routes, hairpins, and death drops.
- The industrial area, filled with technical corners, factories, and a dockyard.
Nostalgic Car Roster
- Roster inspired by 2000s tuners, supercars, muscle cars, and a few oddballs in between.
- Customization Options for each including:
  - 3 Bodykits to choose from
  - Spoilers
  - Rims
  - Wheel Alignment Settings - Camber, Caster, Toe
  - Full Control over Car Livery (download UV templates, design them in an image software, import them in game)
A Lively Street Racing Scene
- The game features social interaction systems similar to games like Persona.
- Interact with NPC racers at car meets, hang out spots, and before the start of races.
- Make friends and get people to join your crew, or make rivals and make them bet higher against you.
- Bail your associates when they land in trouble, or choose not to.
- Host your own car meets, invite the people you want.
- NPCs are not just limited to racers - there are other characters like members of the Police, Gas Station owners, and other street racing fanatics.
Sick Standings & Night System
- Every in game session starts at 9 PM at night, and ends at 6 AM.
- Every event (races, time trials, etc.), every interaction (car meets, hang out spots), every time you work on your car (upgrades, aero parts), makes the in game time pass a certain amount of hours.
- Goal of the game is to reach the top of the Sick Standings in the least amount of days possible.
- The Sick Standings changes every night.
- The choice is yours - do you take the day off and hang out with friends, work on your car, and risk losing positions on the standings, or do you keep grinding to get to the top?

Development

On September 18th 2024, Aswin A. K., the sole developer behind Extant Notion, officially began work on Sick Street Racer, with the aim of making something carrying the spirit of 2000s racing games. It is Extant Notion’s first commercial project, as well as Extant Notion’s first large scale project made with the Unity Engine.

For the first year of development, time was mostly spent on making the game’s core systems, like the UI system, map system, audio handler, freeroam and race mode systems, and many other quality of life features. With most of the core gameplay systems tackled, the focus for the next year will be on getting the main “game loop” functional, with races to do and opportunities to interact with NPC racers.

All of the 3D assets were created in-house using Blender and they were textured using Inkscape and Photoshop. The UI was designed completely in Inkscape, from the initial mockup stage, to the final sprites.

The art style and general vibe was decided early on in development - something along the gritty lines of Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005) mixed with the artsy and stylistic elements from Persona 5, Jet Set Radio, Automodellista, Colin Mcrae: DiRT 2, Need For Speed: Unbound, among others. The car models have a mid-poly art style, with each model ranging between 5k to 10k triangles. The character art was designed by Aswin’s classmate Vishnu V. Nambiar. They met in college while they were pursuing their postgraduate degrees.