Hot Rod Rebels

Hot Rod Rebels is an unreleased arcade racing game developed by Atari Games in 2001

Core team: ~15

Time on project: ~12 months

Contributions

Designed and modeled 6 racecourses
Scripted dozens of spectacular stunts with dynamic moving objects

Lost Treasures

Most of the design documents for the game disappeared along with the closure of 675 Sycamore Drive.

I captured what I could from memory in my blog post: We Totally Did the Donut Jump Before Red Hot Chili Peppers

The cool Game Design innovation was that each race was to start with a 1/4 mile drag race, complete with a red/yellow/green "Christmas Tree" and reaction time readouts in the thousandths of seconds.

The gameplay was surprisingly deep and accurate given the very short amount of time down the quartermile - typically less than 8 seconds. We had modeled smoking the tires, popping the clutch, and wheelstands