Hitting 200 wishlists this early matters more than you'd think — every wishlist genuinely pushes a solo-dev game further into Steam's algorithms. Thanks for putting this in your library plans. It actually helps.

Quick rundown of what's been built recently and what's coming.

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Press the trick button mid-air to throw a Superman pose. Hold through the air, release before touchdown for a clean landing and a +500 SUPERMAN popup. Hold too long — eat dirt. Proper risk-and-reward arcade design.

• Sudden-stop wall detection (no layer mask setup needed)
  
• Bike-to-bike collisions — configurable as both-crash or aggressor-vs-receiver
  
• Bad-landing detection — over-rotate, go down
  
• Authored ragdoll rider with launch impulse + bone physics
  
• Auto-respawn at the nearest waypoint with engine kickstart audio every time

• Waypoint-driven AI with optional ramp shortcuts (each AI rolls per branch)
  
• Multiple difficulty bands with their own physics tuning
  
• Bike-to-bike bumper-car collisions, dynamic overtake behaviour
  
• Per-AI lateral offsets — no two riders share a racing line

Faithful recreation of the PSX Championship Motocross 2001 engine architecture. Scheduled overlap looping, A/B alternating gas clips, throttle-tied gas layer, idle drone with velocity-driven pitch shift, separate ground / brake / drift SFX, plus a 3-stage startup sequence: kickstart → engine catch → throttle blip.


Live popup notifications:

• +500 SUPERMAN — held the trick for the full 2 seconds
  
• +100 OVERTAKE x2 — passing rivals mid-race
  
• +1000 FINISH 1ST — race placement bonus

Pre-wired for leaderboards via Unity Cloud Services.

• Cinemachine air-trick camera — body pulls back and damping drops mid-trick
  
• PSX-style 12 Hz stepped rig animations
  
• Lean wobble — bike subtly shifts weight during sustained turns
  
• Surface transition smoothing — no velocity "step" when crossing mesh boundaries
  
• Track-side photoshoot billboards that animate when riders pass
  
• Crash SFX, rear/front mud particles, ramp-launch audio, race-start engines-at-the-line ambient

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• Steam Next Fest — October 2026 — demo polish in full swing
  
• Leaderboards via Unity Cloud Services — July 2026
  
• Local co-op split-screen — August 2026
  
• Career mode with multi-event tournaments
  
• More tracks, more bikes, more chaos

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If you grew up burning out on Championship Motocross 2001, Excitebike 64, or Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000, this is your game. Solo development, no AAA tax.

If you're enjoying the journey:

• Wishlist the game (it actually moves the algorithm needle)
  
• Drop feedback in Discussions — every comment lands directly on my desk
  
• Share with anyone who'd appreciate a proper PSX-era motocross revival

Next stop: 500 wishlists. Let's send it.

-sourpickledev