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The players set their jaws on the edge,flex their muscles and,as the race starts,break loose into a do-or-die race on tracks pocked with hurdles. Their vehicles the humble hand-pulled rickshaw from Kolkata that makes an appearance on the gaming screens. Called Rikshaw Brawl,the game has won its creators,city-based animation company,DC Animations,the Best Art and Design Award at the Intel Level Up 2010. For gaming ignorants,Intel level up is a contest organised by Intel every year and winning a prize here is,especially in India,a major webbed feat.
The Rikshaw Brawl is a typical third person race and fight game but not between usual bots,players or cars but between rickshaws, says DC Animations Ravi Yadav. The game involves simple controls,but thats all thats simple and easy. The player is the rickshawpuller who has to fight with other rickshawpullers in various types of races. The game starts with a simple stone-aged rickshaw and,as the player advances up the levels,the game becomes complex,with custom parts like speed boosters,gears and torque. Players can also make use of weapons available to them.
What makes this game special is the use of Indian rickshaws for the first time in a race and fight game. The custom parts unlock as a player wins more and more races, says Ravi. Theyve also created cool and funny characters to choose from as well as a range of new attacks.
Yadav and Gour say that Intel now wants them to create the full version of game in the next three months,for which they will be given resources. While the final results for the international series of this contest will be announced in December,the game will be available for download on their website http://www.dcanimations .com and http://www.dcanimations.blogspot.com.
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