American McGee's Chinese cart racing MMO concept

Posted Oct 22nd 2008 7:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Driving, MMO

Former id Software designer American McGee has been living in China for a while now, developing titles with his own company Spicy Horse such as the continuing American McGee's Grimm episodic series. Now his official blog site has posted up a new game concept from McGee called BaiJiu Racer, a MMO-lite racing title that revolves heavily around Chinese culture.

The game is still in pre-production but McGee already has some concept artwork and a YouTube video showing off some early gameplay concepts (you can see it after the jump). The game already has a Chinese publisher but McGee is looking to see if Western publishers would go for the concept. It should be interesting to see if a game with such a Eastern theme could resonate with Western gamers.

Tags: american-mcgee, BaiJiu-Racer, spicy-horse

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

The swerving all over the streets, definitely inspired by Shanghai taxi drivers. :) I lived there too, never met American McGee though.

This game looks fun. One of the most popular MMOs in China, at least as of a few months ago, is a go kart racing game. I think this would be a tougher sell in N. America or Europe, but could be interesting.

Posted at 10:28PM on Oct 22nd 2008 by James Egan