Simulation Games

Speed Dreams – motorsport simulation and racing game

Speed Dreams is a cross-platform, open source motorsport simulator.

Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous open racing car simulator TORCS, aiming to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

Development on Speed Dreams commenced in late 2008.

Features include:

  • 38 tracks.
  • 16 tracks with full scenery and terrain.
  • 28 cars.
  • Animated drivers with some cars.
  • 10 camera modes.
  • Close to realistic physics.
  • Experimental full 3D physics engine (user selectable).
  • Customizable controls.
  • Automatic shifting, ABS, ASR.
  • Visually reworked menus.
  • 3 amazing fine tuned and balanced new car sets: Super Cars, 36 GP and LS-GT1.
  • Updated TRB1 car set (well balanced, more realistic behaviour).
  • 3 exciting new tracks and many visually improved ones.
  • Smashing liveries for all these cars.
  • 2 new TRB first-class robot for the Supercars, 36 GP and TRB1 car sets: USR and Simplix (at last real AI opponents).
  • Animated driver on 36GP cars, 3D wheels for all cars.
  • 2 new leader-board modes, smoke on spinning tires.
  • Brand new gauges and many many other small visual improvements.
  • Experimental Simu V3 physics engine.
  • Many menu improvements (support for grid shifting, optimized track select load time, category filter when selecting driver, more information in results and standings boards).
  • Supported input devices: Keyboard, Wheel, Joystick, Mouse, Gamepad.

Website: www.speed-dreams.org
Support:
Developer: Wolf-Dieter Beelitz, Xavier Bertaux, Brian Gavin, and others
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Speed Dreams

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