Friday, February 15, 2013

RH Race


RH Race was the first game of RH Games. It is a racing game where the most important thing is not to arrive at first place, but stay alive. You can run alone or with the help of a friend. Your goal is to avoid colliding with other cars and pick the flags on the road.



Several types of cars will try to prevent you from reaching your goal, such as automobiles with blades, "kamikazes" vehicles that throw themselves against the player and bomb droppers.



You need great hand-eye coordination to be able to overcome all of these challenges.



At the end of each stage you'll have a warm welcome. There is also a panel with messages that will keep you motivated to continue the race.


The game can be downloaded at this link: RHrace.zip.

This zip file contains the executable for Windows. When you unzip the zip file you will find the folder structure shown in the image below. The folder "art" contains all the art used in the game. The folder "sound" contains all the sound files. The folder "src" contains the source code of the game in C/C++ language.



A warning for Windows 7 users. There is a problem of "Windows Explorer" with old Windows games that used 256-color palette. These games appear with several colors replaced messing the look of the game. Games like Command & Conquer, Starcraft and Age of Empires II suffer from this effect that also affects RH Games games.

One way around this problem is to kill the "explorer.exe" process. This can be done in the "Processes" tab of the Windows Task Manager, which is accessed from the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys. Then you can start the game you want in the "Applications" tab of the Task Manager, on the "New Task..." button.