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AlpenCROSS

AlpenCROSSThe FIRST MOUNTAINBIKE - Nature Simulation Game for PC

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April 5, 2018
8 years and 120 days ago
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About the Game

TransALP – find your own way aCROSS the Alps.

The challenge is to find your best way from one CHECKPOINT to the next. 500m or 10km, explore the terrain!

You get points for successful rides. With this points you´l unlock BIKES, equipment, outfits and new sections. Combine it, find your tactics to master the game!

Make more points with STUNTS if this is your way,... but the focus is to drive a Mountain bike with smooth movement, possibility's, physics, cycle feeling and – interacting with the terrain!

Your want find out more?

OK, find it, explore it,...

Check out the home of AlpenCROSS

What makes this
Game NOVEL?


The accessible bike physic

A mixture of skill and tactics, for beginners and professionals!

The “open Alps” principle!

Find your own way to reach the CHECKPOINTS

The “Nature simulation”


Cycling is more than kick to pedal!
Wind, stream rushing, bees buzzing, the wind that sweeps through the crest….

GAME Play

The trip planning leads you over 32 challenges in 5 different sections across the Alps!
there are 2 GAME MODES:


TIMERUSH: By this challenges, the way points are just 100 meters apart and make breakneck routes.

ORIENTING: To orient yourself you must plan the tour yourself, preferably with the map, to reach the next way point (far away).


SPECIALS will help you

Tactically combined in preparing the TOUR.

Wider tires for the Cross Country , or use the advantages of glasses?

The protectors, hmm, is there room for the MAP? I can take only 3 Specials.

12 SPECIALS, BIKES 5 and 4 OUTFITS provide new possibilities and combinations!

MOUNTAIN-BIKES


The balanced Fully
The cross country with hard tail and 29 inch wheels
The Fat bike find completely new routes
The Enduro has an unbuffered strut
the Downhill makes me to an chamois…


SMART RANKING


Through successes are quickly
unlocked new SPECIALS and Tougher challenges.
Easy start – Heavy Master

EASY CONTROL

Quick and easy to control!

cozy Per controller, on the Couch with Beamer
or with the keyboard for a fast lap in the office ….
All pre-set and configurable intuitively, easy and comfortable!

REPLAY

Marvel at your own driving performance!
After your tour, show the replay and see your wild ride again
to view the replay from several perspectives.

SPECIAL MOVES

Slides - with the rear brake. Physics pure and 180 degrees if you want and if you can!
Pump kick - put all your weight full in the pedal

MAKING OF

5 Years Development and distilling good material make a real good drop of Whisky:

The DRIVERS MOVEMENT



isn't an precalculated prerendered. It is a sketch what happens in movement with an Physical Ragdol. So you see no driving part twice!

NATURE PHOTOS


+5000 Photos from the Alpine region for
backgrounds
Textures
plan graphics

CODE

+40,000 Lines of code
to calculate the tire Traction at the right angle.
also the offset to determine when wind gusts,
also the height of the lake level to calculate …
+300 Shader from Shader Model 3.0
Among other post process Photoreal or optional RAW shader.
collect material

SOUND

Sounds like a babbling brook?
Like a thundering waterfall?
+600 Sound recordings for all
they know the sound only to hear
at the crest!

MUSIC

26 cool tracks
for those who prefer music
underscore the action in the ear!


VEGAN PRODUCTS


As the collecting pictures and sounds in the nature, no animals or animal products were used or damaged.
Also with the virtualisation no fauna or flora has been disturbed.