When midnight strikes, public streets turn into racetracks and every turn has a price. In Los Santino, everyone answers to the call of adrenaline pumping speed, including you. Build your legend as a top racer or become another name lost in the huddle.
Velocity: The Race Begins is an exciting 300,000-word interactive racing novel by Matt Ryland, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Choose the type of person you will become. Will you fight all for yourself? Or will you stand by family? Rise through an underground scene ruled by ruthless gangs, organized mafias, crooked cops, and other racers who think they own the streets.
• Play as male or female. • Forge your skills behind the wheel! Work on your abilities to become the best racer in Los Santino! Craft your own style of racing! • Tune the machine! Upgrade your ride, add Nitros, and blaze the highways in style! • Challenge other racers to race to prove who’s the best! • Pick your crew, join a family! Or tackle the underworld alone! • Investigate the mysteries of Los Santino! Discover the disturbing truths hidden deep within the neon city! • Try and avoid the heat! Engage in thrilling police chase where it’s you against the law! • Romance or rival! Find love amidst the chaos! • Make your name! Climb to the top the circuit and become the champ! • Contribute to the chaos! Join a gang and love life on the wild side!
Live your life a quarter mile at a time.
Matt developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Write your own game and Hosted Games will publish it for you, giving you a share of the revenue your game produces.
I noticed that the cover art contains the Nissan logo, the GT-R logo and and the Skyline logo. All these three are active Nissan trademarks, and using them on the cover art of a commercial game can be legally risky. The icon also shows a car with the GT-R logo and R34, referencing the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34.
I think you credited Unsplash for the pictures. Note that Unsplash clearly warns that recognizable trademarks retain their copyright even under the unsplash license. You might want to blur out the trademarks or modify your cover art to remove them.
This is straight up fucking bullshit and if I could demand a refund I would right now. A single choice that leads to an instant game over in the middle of the story that is buried 90 minutes into the story? Are you fucking serious?
I understand why that was frustrating, especially after investing so much time into the playthrough.
That outcome was intentional from a story perspective. During the police raid, the white limousine belongs to a high ranking mafia associate. In that situation, an unknown person suddenly running toward the boss would be seen as a potential threat, and his bodyguards would react immediately rather than taking chances. That’s why your MC died trying to approach it.
I appreciate you sharing your feedback, though. It’s helpful to know when a consequence feels more surprising than intended, and I’ll keep that in mind as I continue improving the game and future projects.
Im loving this game but god do I wish there was save points. Having to restart the entire game because I made on mistake or got a little curious is infuriating.
You could achieve the same effect by having an enforcer rudely punch you in the face and slam the door before dropping you off in the previous menu so you can pick one of the other choices. I don’t understand how this game made it all the way through wip without anyone bringing this up? Is it because dashington comes with it’s own save file system so this minefield style non-standard game overs don’t bother people playing the demo so much?
I really want to like this game more than I do. But the fact there are so many instant death options scattered throughout so much of the game, without any checkpoints or start from the beginning of the chapter options made the whole process feel more frustrating than anything else.
I was racing Brock in the last quarter of the story when I made a wrong choice, and the game ended. Imagining having to go all the way back just to reach the same point again is frustrating. A save system would be greatly appreciated.
Yay I’m glad you guys are asking for a save system too, requested it too in the game’s page, playing so much and dying without options kf returning is not cool at all specially given visual novels already have an answer to that you collect the bad ending and keep playing stuff like that can be very cool to get alternative narratives and the like but at the end returning to the canon path. Amazing game by the way, great way to start July!
Much love!
thanks and much love!
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