First Community Update

WHAT IS SYNTHALGIA?

syn·thal·gia

/sinTHˈôlˈjə/

noun noun: synthalgia

• a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the age of synthesizers, typically from the period of 1980 through to 1989, with happy associations to fast cars, sunny days, beaches and bright lights

  "I was overcome with acute synthalgia for my days in college"

WHAT IS THIS GAME?

SYNTHALGIA: Retro Arcade Racing is a passion project fueled by love for cars and the 1980's with nothing but a vision to convey the warm happy feelings of the 1980's bottled up into the font seat of a supercar!

Romanticizing everything great and nostalgic about the 1980's with aims to become the most amazing arcade racing game set in retro futuristic universe of fast cars, beaches and bright lights! Cruising the roads, shifting through gears and taking in the scenery, driving as fast and far as you can!

The initial vision for the game has been boiled down to its core essence over many sleepless nights reworking and refining in pursuit of creating the ultimate arcade driving feeling.

PLANNED RELEASE

This game is a solo developer production. It’s taken a long while with lots of effort for the game to have come this far. We do not have the budget to operate as a big studio which is both good and bad as things become more pure and refined to their core artistic essence but at the cost of time.

Aside from some photoscanned rocks and cactuses this game was designed by hand and built in-house from the ground up in a matching cohesive visual aesthetic, with focus on immersion and sense of speed.

Early Access launch is planned for the second quarter of this year (between April and June). However worst case scenario if something doesn't work quite right, it wouldn't be right not to delay the launch.

Shigeru Miyamoto famously said "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad" we want the Early Access release to be as great fun and exciting release as possible.

COMMUNITY

This game has been in development for a little over two years now. Wow. Time passes like grains of sand falling through your hands. We want to thank you for all the wishlists, follows and your interest! It's been an incredible journey making this game thus far.

If you love what you're seeing and can’t wait for more it would be greatly appreciated if you shared the game with your friends and family, especially those who grew up in the coin arcade era. Your support and feedback is very much welcome and appreciated!

Thank you so much!

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