Open Racing Manager is a classic, F1-inspired racing management game built with Pyxel, a retro game engine for Python. Designed to capture the challenging simulation and strategy of motorsport management, the game focuses on deep gameplay mechanics and difficulty over graphical detail.
This is an open-source passion project with plans to make something similar to Motorsport Manager/F1 Manager but with deeper progression and strategies.
Mostly the project is influenced by aformentioned games but also by Dwarf Fortress because of its visual simplicity but overall depth.
For now the main "engine" is python and pyxel, though some other libraries used (see requirements.txt), however we may switch to Lua or Godot if such need arises.
Currently, we want to stick with very simplistic visual style, almost reminiscent to Atari or NES, maximizing the gameplay elements and depth.
Feel free to contribute to the project, but first contact main developer.
0.0.1 Basic race engine introduced, no interpolation in the corners, basic grid. Speed based on the length of a segment.
0.0.1t Trackbuilder introduced.
0.0.2 Smooth corners introduced, custom starting positions, ability to retract changes, implemented basic race loop with leaderboard, implemented states (main menu and race loop), implemented dummy car class with tyres and stats, implement track loading from .json trackbuilder with smoothing. Speed calculated from corners and angles.
0.0.3 Pitstops introduced as well as some changes in balance. Cars now will pitstop when having destroyed tyres. Pitstops can be built using Trackbuilder. Leaderboard is now scrollable. Introduced announcements class for race announcements. Utilities.py removed.
0.0.3a Fixed leaderboard and interval race info.
0.0.3b Splitting state logic.
0.0.4 Safety car logic added with debug features
0.0.4a Fixed safety car and pitstop bugs - cars stuck in pitstop while safetycar is active, cars won't do a planned pitstop if safetycar becomes active
0.0.6 Added qualifying stage before the race, added basic team json loader. Fixed some bugs related to safety car, safety car now "waits" for the leader
0.0.6a Testing UI on car hover features in Qualifying
0.0.7 Added team selection menu
0.0.7a Title screen animation added
0.0.7b Palette fixes
TLDR The game is in pre-alpha state and right now only race is playable
Bugs moved to issues
Build your own tracks to race your cars on.
Qualifying
- Create trackbuilder with smooth corners, custom starting pos, ability to retract changes
- Implement basic race loop with leaderboard
- Implement states (main menu and race loop)
- Implement dummy car class with tyres and stats
- Implement track loading from .json trackbuilder with smoothing. Calculate speed for corners from track
- Fix palette differences, handle palettes responsibly (partly done)
- Fix car stats (partly done)
- Add pits to trackbuilder and to race. Add the ability to pit and change tyres
- Add safety car spawn from pits
- Add dummy drivers, load from .json with stats
- Add dummy teams, load from .json with stats (base .json added)
- Add qualifying state before race
- Add practice session and pre-qualifying if needed
- Add more comprehensive readme
- .... more to come