Developer(s) eSophers Ltd Designer(s) Ashik Noon
Adnan Karim Initial release date 2 March 2002 Platform Microsoft Windows | Publisher(s) eSophers Ltd Genre(s) 3D Car Racing Game Mode Single-player video game | |
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Programmer(s) Mozammel Haque
Ruman Zakaria Release date(s) Demo Version (Mar 02 2002); Commercial Version (Jan 12, 2003) | ||
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Dhaka Racing is a 3D car racing game developed and published by eSophers Ltd in 2002. Designed by Ashik Noon and Adnan Karim. It is the first 3D game developed in Bangladesh. The game features the streets of Dhaka as race tracks where you can race with the cars of Dhaka. You can also race with rickshaws.
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The final version of the game has been released at the BCS (Bangladesh Computer Society) Computer Fair, BICC (Bangabandhu International Conference Centre), Agargaon on January 12, 2003. It also received the Best Product Award of that fair from the Honorable President of Bangladesh Iajuddin Ahmed.
Gameplay
The game features some of the famous and busy streets of Dhaka. Players have to choose one from 8 different vehicles including the traditional Bangladeshi vehicles like Rickshaw, Auto rickshaw etc. Players can select one from four different locations of Dhaka for racing - Manik Mia Avenue, Chandrima/Zia Uddyan, Ramna Park area and the runway of Zia International Airport, along with a special track from Sylhet Osmani International Airport area. There is also an option for playing in different weather conditions. The gameplay also features a separate option called Rickshaw Mania where the player can have a race as a rickshaw driver against other rickshaws.
Development
The founders, chief designers and programmers of the game, Ashik Noon and Adnan Karim were only final year students of computer science and engineering at the North South University during the development of the game. Ashik and Adnan took as many as 500 pictures of various streets of Dhaka to make the game realistic. The graphics modeling was done through Autodesk 3ds Max while the game's logic, artificial intelligence, car movement and behavior was programmed on Visual C++.
Reception
Initially, a demo version of the game was released in Mar 2002. Few months later on Jan 12th 2003, the full version came into the market. The game received Best Product award in BCS Computer Fair 2003. To protect it from piracy, the developers later only allowed the game to be downloaded online through payments.
Dhaka Race received widespread acclaim and pioneered the 3D gaming industry of Bangladesh. Then President of Bangladesh, Dr. A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury gave a special award to Ashik Noon and Adnan Karim for developing the first 3D game in Bangladesh. ICT Minister of Bangladesh, Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan also appreciated the game.
Later this same team developed multiple 3D Games like Bangladesh 71 (a FPS 3D game on the Liberation War of Bangladesh), JPGL Boat Racing Game (a multiple player boat racing game for British American Tobacco, Kolkata Racing (a 3D racing game for Sonolite Multimedia, India) for local and international markets.