Racer was the first game I wrote using the SDL library. The initial software rendering mode caused ugly tearing effects that made it horrible to watch. As a consequence, OpenGL support was added to provide a smoother experience. To further improve the visual quality, a special rendering technique was implemented: multiple images of an object are stored - each with a different angle. The right image is picked depending on the rotation of an object. This 'simulated lighting' makes simple sprites seem like 3D meshes.

• Chicken Hunt: pick up bullets and hunt chickens
• Football: push the ball into the enemy's goal
• Checkpoint Race: be the first to reach a certain number of checkpoints
• Shootout: player versus player
• Splitscreen mode

Several items can be picked up:

	Bullets: 3 bullets are launched
	Bomb: a bomb is placed on the ground
	Spiky Bomb: special bomb that creates multiple bullets when exploding
	Turbo: increases the player's speed
	Pusher: pushes other players away and protects from incoming bullets
	Chicken: two (exploding) chickens fly away
	Tank: a tank starts roaming around

95% done - nearly finished. Maybe add the old track-based racing mode again

Video 1: Chicken Hunt

Video 2: Checkpoint Race