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Bang Bang Racing - would love your feedback

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Hi All

Our company Playbox has just announced our first Android title Bang Bang Racing THD for Tegra powered devices.

Would really love to get some valuable feedback as it's our first self published game after moving away from console development.

You can see more about the game here: BBR THD | Facebook

We posted a youtube video here: YouTube - Bang Bang Racing BBR THD

Below is our press release.

Thanks

Playbox Expands into Android, Focuses on Games for Super Phones
and Tablets with NVIDIA Tegra


Liverpool, England, 18th, April 2011
 
Looks good but I can't play it on My Galaxy S and I'm not buying a tegra 2 phone to play it either.

My next phone will not use Tegra 2.

But thanks for sharing this, a game most of us can't play, awesome.
 
Hmmm...looks awesome but why limit it to the Tegra? I can understand in not running on budget handsets but why cut out other high end hardware platforms?
 
Shocky said:
Looks good but I can't play it on My Galaxy S and I'm not buying a tegra 2 phone to play it either.

My next phone will not use Tegra 2.

But thanks for sharing this, a game most of us can't play, awesome.
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agreed.. if my epic 4g could play this you would already have my money..
 
It is looking like a really fun game from the video. Currently im not able to run it, but hopefully in the future i will be able to.

Damn all those different choices!
 
xTmDarren said:
agreed.. if my epic 4g could play this you would already have my money..
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Same, I have to wonder if these exclusives are worth it for developers, I might understand if the phone was well established with millions of users even though I still wouldn't agree with it, but that's just not the case with tegra 2.
 
Nice to have a dev doing Tegra only stuff here so I can ask you...why the hell do something for a machine that is so limited in sales compared to so many other Android phones and to make it worst which is not that much faster than a Galaxy S, in fact they trade punches when you compared different games/benchmarks?
It makes no sense to limit yourself so much.
If you were doing it for a platform way better than anything else then it would make sense but this game can be created on a Galaxy S with ease...this pisses me off and I hope that anyone doing Tegra only games sink deep!
Sorry to take it on you but that is what anyone doing this to the Android market deserves.
 
Lets hope the Bionic comes out sooner rather than later so people other than atrix users can buy the game. Looks very nice!
 
Would really love to get some valuable feedback as it's our first self published game after moving away from console development.
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Guess he did not like our feedback that much lol
Basically my feedback is I HATE you for joining the nonsense idea of developing for Tegra or Xperia only but the game looks good so bring it to ANDROID as in ALL ANDROID not just some of it.
Regards
 
Hello Shaolin

First of all thanks for your feedback, you can't please everyone when making games so can understand some frustration.

To answer your question it may look like a simple game but there is actually a lot going on under the bonnet, we are using Nvidia PhysX which is a realistic handling model which is why the game is so much fun to play. We have had the game running on other android phones but they really can't match Tegra devices. Running on a HTC desire Z we got about 5 frames a second.

I understand your point about the small market but it's growing daily and by the end of the year Tegra devices will dominate on android.

We are thinking about redeveloping a scaled down version for other android phones but it really wouldn't be half the game it is running on Tegra.

Hope you can understand a bit more about why we chose that route now.

More than happy to answer your questions regardless of how brutal they are :p
 
Well with all due respect I do not see anything that cannot be ported to a powervr phone like any of the Galaxy S one. Yes if you take some unoptimized Physx code and throw it on the CPU like Nvidia has done with Batman game for example then of course it will kill any phone.
Yes I can see nice things in there but come on, this aint Crysis and if you really want to, you can do it on high end phones.
Regards
 
Playbox said:
Hope you can understand a bit more about why we chose that route now.

More than happy to answer your questions regardless of how brutal they are :p
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Well no, benchmarks clearly show performance of tegra 2 to not be that much faster, SGX540 as benchmarked by anandtech on the Optimus 3D is faster.

You say your using physx, is this GPU or CPU accelerated? I'm guessing this is where the performance issues are coming from.

But that was your choice, nobody forced you guys to use physx and optimize your game for tegra 2.
 
+1
Physx have been done on CPU for a long time now..if optimized all is good but as I said dropping Nvidia Phsyx code to an unsuspecting CPU is not nice ;)
 
I have the most recent version running on my xoom, 3.0. It'll crash after every race or two. Kicks me right back to android. Any reason why?
 
Hardware power is not lacking on my Galaxy SII, so clearly more is going on 'under the bonnet' in terms of money and inducements flowing from Nvidia to developers. Your disingenuous reply doesn't do you credit Playbox.
 
Indeed bro...its way too obvious. Look at how many games just require the right texture format to work like Riptide running super smooth on my Captivate even with the added processing needed for the extra driver (and yes I know I am very OCed).
 
I doesnt work because it uses Nvidia Physx so the dev will have to code it for CPU instead for us to use it, which they already claim its too slow, which is BS ...like this is Crysis or some other game with extreme use of physx...come on now...but now, wont work.
 
if you run things like chainfire you have to expect shit to be messed up. Don't play tegra games on non-tegra devices. Instead of bashing the dev, look at your hardware...if its not tegra then pony up the cash cheapo. This runs smooth as butter on my xoom, common sense says I wouldn't even touch it with my captivate.
 
Obviously you missed the point completely and you have no idea what you are talking about so please read again, learn what the "real" story is and then come back and post. BTW, did you know that some of those "ONLY TEGRA because Only tegra can do it games" can be played perfectly fine in other devices like Galaxy S phones? Riptide, samurai 2, pinball...so that proves that the whole only tegra can do it is pure BS. Now go read then feel free to post again "buddy".. :rolleyes:
 
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