Description
(Influenced by games)

Sonic Riders, Wip3out, Running High, F-Zero GX, SSX Tricky

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(Game Design)

It's a 3D action racing game with story elements.
The story is depicted as 2D dialogues similar to visual novel style games.

Races take place on various types of tracks, most often taking place in above-ground spaces such as among the treetops in the rainforest, between skyscrapers or even higher.

The racer will face steep turns, various big jumps over giant abyss or special anti-gravity tracks in inaccessible locations.

The game is designed to keep players constantly in an adrenaline rush and at the same time make them highly focused in unexpected situations on the track.

The visuals of the game, especially the main menu design, are partly minimalist, but full of dynamic graphic transitions accompanied by thematic music.

The player has a strong audio-visual experience while selecting characters, watching dialogues or situations on the track.
The same applies during the race, where each track has its own music theme. (Especially in Story mode)

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(Story)

The story is focused primarily on the bird world, where birds are conceived as anthropomorphic characters (like the avians), in any case they do not have the typical bird flight abilities, but they have an innate bird nature.

They live mainly in urban cities, high above the ground, which blend perfectly with the local nature. It's a forest and a city at once.

After a certain period of time, the bird population must move to warmer regions.
The reason is very serious, because with climate changes, predators and beasts come from the dangerous lower part of the forest.

These Predators (mostly wolves) here have the function of robber bandits and they go for bird eggs.

Therefore, a special courier organization was created in the bird population, consisting of various species of bird people, and their task is to transfer most of the eggs from the risk area, safely to the other side, in a warmer part of the continent.

For quick transfers, special courier routes were created that deliver the eggs to a specific place in time.

This courier work is so popular among the bird population that this entire event is conceived as a race, where various courier competitors compete for the fastest delivery of eggs.

As a means of racing, they use special skates and a partially mechanical suit that, in a big jump over abysses, triggers properties reminiscent of bird flight.

However, during the races, those dangerous wolf bandits sometimes appear on the track, who try to block the courier's path and steal their eggs.
Therefore, it's extremely important to be constantly on the alert during the race and not lose any eggs.

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(Note)

The cover features one of the wolf bandits and a young racing duck named Joe from the courier organization (he actually becomes the main character of this game among the other racers)

This cover art was a full day's work. Luckily, I managed to get it done in time.

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(Music influence)

It's known that I am a big fan of Namco music (mainly from the 90s - 2010s era) and this was no different.

Sometimes I used some synth samples taken directly from Namco C352 (Namco System 22) games (extracted by QuattroPlay or mulaw)

So the OST has some original elements from Namco Sound Team.

Created all in Bitwig. For fast work, this is the best DAW.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/systemst91/sets/air-runners-ost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyxjMqA0V5s

Number of tracks
12

Genre

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY-NC)

Any non-commercial project

Compilation album