Video game development is full of names that have made groundbreaking steps you’ve never even heard about. Shawn Nash is a behind-the-scenes pioneer responsible for SODA Off Road Racing’s incredible physics, Papyrus’ graphical advancements and iRacing’s use of laser scan data for the physical track surfaces.
This interview with RSC, published in 2021, details his early life and career, through both his own company, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, to his time at iRacing.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
A native VR version supporting the Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro of GRID Legends, the ‘interactive storyline’ racing game from Codemasters, is due to be released next week on January 12, 2023.
You can pre-order here and also view the trailer there. Unfortunately the visuals look pretty blocky on the Quest trailer (seen on the pre-order page), and the AI movement is stuttering, which means it’s probably running at either a poor framerate or maxing out the CPU. Yay?
Initially announced here:
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