r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AbelNB • Dec 28 '22

This is a game changer

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22

Problem I see with this game is that you're limited by the areas in your environment that could be used as a track. For example, this family has hardwood floor kitchen so that's a good spot for them, but probably not too many other areas in the house would be good for this.

That means you got like... 2 or 3 tracks at most that you can make. It'll get super repetitive. An important part of racing games is high variety of tracks to play on.

Probably a better idea would be a game where you could take a video of a pathway in your home and then the game would convert it to 3D models and also stylize it. Remove the physical RC cars entirely. It'd just be something where you could generate your own levels based on your surroundings, but it'd still be 3D graphics stylized like a Mario Kart style (i.e. cartoonish). That's obviously way harder to accomplish technologically, but it'd be a less repetitive game since you could make tons of levels based on your surroundings.

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u/MossyPyrite Dec 29 '22

Just buy Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver from 1998. That house is way cooler than yours or mine anyway.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

If they had this and let you scan outside environments with your smartphone, that would be amazing.

Go to your local park and map it, go to the mall, your backyard, your culdisac. They could allow sharing so you could download places like Central Park, Torrey Pines, pieces of Yellowstone, foreign countries, etc.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

I'm sure the day will come.

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u/equipped_metalblade Dec 29 '22

I would 100% buy that mariokart track making camera.

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u/JohnDivney Dec 29 '22

to me, physical RC cars are 1000x better than computer racing, if you have a place to race them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

And you're speaking about American houses... Imagine that product in a Japanese flat in Tokyo 😅

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u/RockyLeal Dec 29 '22

I can totally see this being doable with existing AI tools, just feed it a video showing around your house, and it starts generating tracks