🏎️ RacingGame — 3D Racing Game (Unreal Engine 5)

A 3D racing game built in Unreal Engine 5, featuring vehicle controls, racing mechanics, a checkpoint and lap system, and custom track design.

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📖 Overview

RacingGame is a single-player 3D racing game built as a portfolio project to demonstrate vehicle gameplay programming, lap/checkpoint logic, and track-based level design in Unreal Engine 5. The player drives a vehicle around a custom-designed circuit, passing checkpoints in order and completing timed laps.

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✨ Features & Gameplay Systems

• Vehicle controls — responsive throttle, steering, and braking input driving the player vehicle.
• Checkpoint system — ordered checkpoint volumes that validate the player is following the track and prevent shortcuts.
• Lap system — counts completed laps by detecting a full, in-order checkpoint sequence crossing the start/finish line.
• Racing mechanics — track-based progression and (optionally) lap timing.
• Custom track design — a hand-built racing circuit with corners and a defined racing line.

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🛠️ Technical Implementation

Area	Approach
Vehicle	Player-controlled vehicle pawn with input-driven movement
Checkpoints	Trigger/overlap volumes validated in sequence to ensure legal laps
Lap counting	State tracking that increments a lap only when all checkpoints are hit in order
Level design	Custom track geometry forming the circuit
Engine	Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprint-driven gameplay)

Engineering decisions worth noting:

• The ordered checkpoint validation prevents the classic "drive backwards across the finish line" exploit — laps only count on a legitimate run.
• Built the lap/checkpoint logic as a reusable system so the track length and checkpoint count are data-driven, not hard-coded.

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📂 Repository Contents

⚠️ This repository tracks Config and the .uproject plus project structure. Large binary Content/ assets (meshes, materials, track) are excluded via .gitignore to keep the repo lightweight.

RacingGame/
├── Config/             # Project & engine configuration
├── RacingGame.uproject # Unreal project file
└── .gitignore / .gitattributes

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🚀 Getting Started

Requirements: Unreal Engine 5, Windows.

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/prashannaantony/RacingGame.git

# 2. Open RacingGame.uproject in Unreal Engine 5
# 3. Press Play in the editor

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🖼️ Screenshots

📸 Gameplay screenshots and a lap-completion demo GIF coming soon.

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🎯 What I Learned

• Implementing checkpoint + lap validation that resists shortcut exploits.
• Vehicle input and control setup in UE5.
• Track-based level design and shaping a readable racing line.
• Structuring gameplay logic to be data-driven and reusable.

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📫 Contact

Prashanna A — Portfolio · LinkedIn · prashanna876@gmail.com

Keywords: Unreal Engine 5, UE5, racing game, vehicle physics, checkpoint system, lap system, Blueprints, gameplay programming, level design, track design, game development.