Desi Rider is an infinite runner bike racing game wherein you can experience how an ideal bike ride feels like on the streets of cities in India. Here you face challenges like traffic jams, barricades, road narrowing and barely getting space to make it through the road. A high-speed game that continuously challenges the player to get better and beat the previous high score.
The game requires players to avoid certain obstacles and collect perks on the way. There is a damage meter at the bottom of the screen that indicates the level of damage the bike has and how much more damage it can take. When the damage threshold is reached, the game gets over and the player can either restart the bike ride or the can purchase new life to go further ahead in the game. For purchases in the game, we use the game currency of collectible coins which can be earned only through playing the game. Players can collect coins by playing the game and these coins are added up for every game. You can also collect medical kits to repair the damage to your bike cause racing and these are to be used up in one round itself, they are not carried forward.
The game has the following modules:-
- GameManager - Manages states of Gameplay with enums like pause, playing, started, gameover.
- Characater Sideways controller with accelerometer input
- Repair and damage vehicle manager
- UI Manager - Manages how the UI is manipulated.
Desi Rider is a form of hyperbole of how it feels to drive on the streets with problems such as traffic and constant construction/repair work going on on the roads of Indian Metro Cities. Being a bike rider myself I believe that the safety of bikers should be treated with utmost seriousness. By the medium of this game all I want to do is bring awareness about the dangers of riding a motor cycle and the responsibility of the biker, hence I introduced an update of "Wearing Helmet". Wearing a helmet in the game gives the player double the points and also one extra life (endurance against damage). Any player playing the game will atleast get the message that wearing a helmet while driving is beneficial to the rider himself.
The game is distributed using Google Playstore and Android App Bundle, this keeps the download size small by delivering the resources of the application specific to the device screen size.
Future plans for this project includes integration of Google Play Games service and provide long term support.
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