Daytoyna

After far too long, I have finally achieved my childhood dream of creating a new vehicle 100% from scratch for a 25-year-old toy car game. Yippee!

The design goal of Daytoyna's parameters was to create a car that absolutely needed to powerslide around corners in order to succeed. My single-minded pursuit of this goal resulted in a vehicle that's unusually top-heavy for it's size and shape; combine it's top-heaviness with it's stiff steering, and you get a car that can be quite finicky — it takes poorly to bumpy terrain and is easily wiped out by other cars, but at least it has a high tendency to roll back onto its wheels after most wipeouts.

As a trade-off for it's difficult steering and its consequent tendency towards constantly stopping-and-starting, Daytoyna boasts an utterly ludicrous top speed of 43.5 MPH/70 KPH, narrowly outpacing the likes of Cougar and Panga while barely skating under the (largely self-imposed) Super Pro threshold of 44 MPH . In other words, overcoming this vehicle's steep learning curve will let you pull very far ahead of your opponents whenever you're given the chance to go full-throttle.

I could lie to you and say that this car's handling model was inspired by Daytona USA's visceral power sliding, but the truth is that this car was actually inspired by a friend of mine who played Re-Volt for the first time in early 2024 and spent the first few hours frustratedly trying to play it like a break-to-drift game before I told them (in more eloquent terms) that toy cars do not work that way.

I've also included most of the car's decals and a few other textures in a "Decals + Extras" subfolder which everyone is free to use in their own projects.

Suggestions and constructive feedback will always be appreciated! =^)

• 3D Modelled in Blockbench
• Unwrapped and exported in Blender using Marv's Blender Plugin
• Textured in Paint.NET
• AI tuned with Ato's re-release of Citywalker's individually-tuned AI guide
• Engine sounds by SEGA AM2
• Standard engine sound recorded directly from Daytona USA by CurtDog420
• Alternate engine sound recorded directly from Daytona USA 2001 by me