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First devlog!

my name is Gabriele, i'm the lead game designer and programmer of the team, since we started a bit late with the devlog i'll simply list all of the working features that are in the game for now:

• multiplayer up to 4 players: this took a bit to make it work, especially since I had to move to the new input system for unity which handles multiplayer way better than the old one. Each player can easily enter the game in the car selection screen
• car selection: adding and removing usable cars is easy since it uses scriptable objects, each car can have different starting stats that are also easy to set up (starting health, starting speed etc etc)
• player stats: these include the player health, speed, turning speed and other usefull and editable stats that will be altered during the course of the game
• movement system and other player mechanics: the player is able to move thanks to rigidbodies, they are able to drift, boost and create a shield around them which negates enemy bullets but also makes them unable to shoot
• shooting system: the main way to deal damage to other players is shooting, which instantiate a bullet that travels forward, the bullet also has stats that can be altered by powerups
• powerup system: whenever a player looses a round they gain a random powerup, this can range from stats up (speed up, health up etc) to augments/modifiers that can alter their playstyle (multi bullet, poison trail, bullet bounce)
• round system: when all but one player dies the round is considered over and each player is returned to their spawnpoint, players who have lost will gain a random powerup while the score of the player who won will increase by 1, whenver a player reaches 5 points they will be considered the winner and the game will be over
• map swap system: maps can be added into the map system which will change the current map at the end of every round
• ui: player health is displayed in the ui, planning on adding a "list" of the powerups that the players gain each round