AceRacer

AceRacer is a game that lets you race through procedurally generated tracks. It's an Unreal Engine racer that combines precision, competition, and replayability. I integrated Steam and Epic SDKs - my hand-crafted leaderboard system lets you compare times with friends, while an advanced replay feature allows you to study your best runs and shave off those final milliseconds.

Solo-dev-project created for the Epic Megajam 2025.

Because of stupid bug login with epic account is REQUIRED
Alternative: Shut down steam, that puts the game in offline-mode

Infos:

Everything SHOULD be controllable via controller.
Epic might flag this app as unknown source - if you can't/won't log-in, my online-leaderboard probably doesn't work. I have a custom MySQL server with endpoints set up for leaderboards.
I had to make it a dev-build as epic doesn't seem to include the online-sdks in shipping-builds.
I'm unhappy with the engine sound 😅

Controls:

Action	Keyboard	Controller
Throttle	W	Right Trigger
Brake	S	Left Trigger
Handbrake	Left Shift	FaceButton Left
Drift (hold)	Spacebar	FaceButton Bottom
Steering	A & D	Left Thumbstick
Go to last Checkpoint / Quick-reset	R	FaceButton Right
Reset run	Backspace	Special Left
Pause game	Escape	Special Right

External Assets/Resources:

Used some Lyra content (button-materials, inputaction-widgets, some of the logic, some of the multiplayer-connection logic, pawn-management, experience-management, ui-rootLayout-management). I also took the button-sound from one of my previous projects, so that wasn't fresh-made.

I also used my (previously made) custom implementation of VaRest (for rest-communication with my leaderboard-servers).
Everything else is done by myself. No textures are used, all shader-logic. 
The vehicle is based on Chaos-Physics.