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  • I don’t think every single game needs whatever innovation creative directors like to talk about means.

    Pod racer as a franchise will do well as long as it has:

    • customization
    • good visuals that span the star wars universes diverse locations
    • immersive sound design
    • easter eggs/lore stuff in the levels
    • reactive controls that aren’t bogged down by superfluous alternate systems
    • some way to mess with the other racers that isn’t actual weaponry
    • courses with plenty of alternate paths and potential interactibles, which may or may not be environmental hazards

    and I hope they get away from the known racers. Yes, I know the episode 1 racers are iconic. Please don’t make them the entire actual cast. They can maybe show up as special guests, secret ghosts, or course bosses.

    I’d like to see a method of “aiming” the engines, which could be like a fine control for cornering, or potentially an environmental trigger effect. Aim the engines down while going over sand/snow/water/dust? Make a plume of that material to obfuscate the course for those behind you. Aim them at a brittle looking wall while passing it to collapse it, or send bits of rubble to pelt anyone close enough behind you. Of course, its main should probably be air control and being able to move engine location for those tight fit areas we know are going to be a mainstay.



















  • I’ll take a stab at it.

    There are no known owl species that naturally grow up to 16 pounds. The rest of the numbers are just as meaningless.

    If you wanted to check what it would take for a random owl species to migrate across the ocean from europe to north america, that’s something we can kind of check.

    After a bit of lookup, it seems that the burrowing owl needs about 50-75 calories a day at rest to live, flight multiplies those calories by a factor of roughly 9.2 times. (I’mma round up to 10 because fuck it.) So 500-750 a day of pure flight at a speed of somewhere between 2 and 33 mph. I’m going to settle at 20 because I like easy numbers and I feel like it’s not too crazy fast. So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles. Iceland and Scotland are 500 miles away. Assuming any of these assumptions are at all fair, it seems like an owl hellbent on crossing the ocean could manage to do it with laser guidance in less than two days without access to ground based food.