Use power-ups, hit jumps, powerslide around corners and speed through shortcuts as you jostle for position with the cast of F1 Race Stars, available now on the App Store for your iPhone, iPad or iPod. 40 super-charged tracks from 15 Formula 1 Grand Prix locations across the world. Featuring all the cars, teams and drivers from […]
Today we’re happy to announce that F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition is releasing on the Wii U and available exclusively from the Nintendo eShop in Europe and North America! The game truly is Powered Up with new content, including four extra tracks and nine accessory packs on top of the original game’s power-ups and […]
Welcome to part 2 of our Track and Environment interview with Gavin Cooper and Harvey Parker. In today’s article we’ll learn more about the art direction and what Gavin and Harvey’s favourite tracks are. Codemasters has also made the official FORUMLA ONE games. Was there much crossover between the studios? The core of people who worked […]
Last week in part 1 of our interview with F1 RACE STARS Art Director, Harvey Parker, we took a look at the influences that played a part in F1 RACE STARS character styling and learned about the “Automotive fold”. Read part 2 below to get an inside look on the process of creating the characters. […]
Drive through an aquarium in a FOMRULA ONE CAR? Speed across Bullet trains in Japan? Welcome to F1 RACE STARS! Today we’re sat down with Harvey Parker (Art Director) and Gavin Cooper (Chief Games Designer) to talk about how they set about they set about taking FORMULA ONE tracks and environments and creating a whole […]
F1 Race Stars isn’t your typical karting experience. In a genre where the normal template is a caricature of rallying, we’ve instead distilled the finesse of Formula 1 races. The most important difference is the one that has been with us since the game’s very first pitch, the removal of power-sliding. Instead you’ll be braking […]
Since we released the first images of the F1 Race Stars drivers, we received a huge amount of feedback on the character style and the overwhelming consensus was that people love them! We decided to have a chat with Art Director, Harvey Parker, about how the look of the F1 Race Stars characters came about. First of […]
We’ve put a lot of effort into the computer drivers in F1 Race Stars, and the results are great. Unlike many other racing games’ AIs, our drivers control their karts in the same way as a human, don’t cheat, and are smart enough to avoid hazards and each other… some of the time! The game […]