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Gubble Buggy Racer

A racing game featuring Gubble and friends.

Sub-Pages#

Unused Graphics#

Inside karts.wad is where the game's art and audio is stored.

Wallace & Gromit Leftovers#

The game started in 1998 as Wallace & Gromit: The Grand Tour, a racing game based on the popular BBC stop motion animated short films. It was cancelled and had its engine repurposed for Gubble Buggy Racer. In \Style1\Objects\Pickup are several leftovers from the original pitch demo.

Flame#

\Style1\Fx\Flame\old is a flame effect.

Early UI Elements#

karts\FrontEnd has the main menu graphics, some of which appear to have been placeholders.

Unused Sounds#

zoomold.wav#

In the Sounds folder is an early iteration of the zoom sound.

zoomold.wav (Unused)

zoom.wav (Used)

Unused Text#

run.cfg#

Throughout config/run.cfg are descriptions of each Wallace & Gromit character.

PHYSICS_WALLACE
DESCRIPTION Wallace the main man
PHYSICS_GROMIT
DESCRIPTION Gromit that funky wee dog
PHYSICS_TROUSERS
DESCRIPTION Those nutty trousers
PHYSICS_FEATHERS
DESCRIPTION The evil bird dude

References#


  1. Artworld UK Proudly Announce the Forthcoming Release of Gubble Buggy Racer - GameZone. "Street Date: July 2000"↩︎
  2. Gubble History↩︎