Swervin Mervin: A recreation of 80's-style pseudo-3D arcade racing games, written in Python over the course of way too much time.

Accelleration and steering is performed via the arrow keys. [ENTER] to start, [ESC] to kill the game in fullscreen mode.

Here is a small video of me playing (poorly).

And more info on the pixel art over at MelanieHuang.com.

Yes, it's real. Ships with MAME, SNES and NES (1000+ games). Want something similar for the office? Email me.

Ensure that you have the pygame libraries installed, and then:

  $ ./play

"It's no Sonic the Hedgehog"

And...

"You actually get points for killing people?"

And even...

"I've taken dumps that were more fun than this steaming assheap..."

• Jake at codeincomplete.com and Lou at extentofthejam.com for their fantastic articles on pseudo-3d racing games.
• My beautiful girlfriend, Mel, for all of the original pixel art.
• LazerHawk, Miami Nights 1984, Timecop 1983 and Alverna Gunn for the excellent music.
• Out Run (1986) for "letting me" use some sprites.
• Jim Gillette, Macho Man Randy Savage and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Myself for the sound bites.
• SoundBible and FreeSFX for some sound effects.
• This project is dedicated to Adam Hillier (RIP), for his love of retro video games, and Zak Harvey (RIP), for his love of reckless driving.

• !Design 2nd and 3rd level properly
• !Congratulations sequence when game is finished
• !Package better for distribution (ship with Pygame?)
• Rethink player checkpoint logic to fix "time left" bug in pause and make countdown easy to disable/enable.
  • Use current actual FPS to determine time left.
  • Move all time/checkpoint stuff into game (or maybe level?) and out of player.
• Local highscore file outside of git
• Engine sounds based on speed
• Screech sound and sprite when hitting tunnel wall
• Walls
• Multiple roads with forks
• Get Mel to create art for: Bonuses, Tunnel roof, Other players, Other levels
• Random boxes that penalise time-left when hit
• Random boxes that give player temporary speed boost
• General refactor and Pythonify of sloppy code