E309: United Front demos ModNation Racers paint-brush track editor
In case you still haven't made your way through video of yesterday's Sony conference, video of one of its most pleasant surprises: United Front demoing their "race, create, share" game ModNation Racers, specifically their honestly quite impressive and intuitive paint-brush track editor.
I'll be interested to see how the community really can exploit the system more than just cosmetically and create tracks that truly set themselves apart: Front hasn't fully demonstrated verticality or suspended tracks, and my gut reaction is to wonder how varied they can ultimately otherwise be (though I have, just now, started mentally designing elaborate offroad shortcut side-tracks).
Two additional screenshots showing a bit more of their vinyl-toy-inspired customizable characters are embedded after the jump.




Dean Putney
#1 – 9:04 PM June 3, 2009
"Now we're going to put some happy trees and happy little clouds in here."
xzzy
#2 – 7:54 AM June 4, 2009
Those guys come off like huge douches.
Whoever wrote their script did a horrible job at making it feel spontaneous.