It's easy to slag this off by looking at the GFX but that is very narrow minded, it's quite a fun little racing management game, the tactics work, you feel like you are running a team, it cuts out all the bullshit you get from the big F1 games that simply copy and paste themselves every year for the masses. And more importantly this dev has an eye for good gameplay and I for one am very happy to give his game some publicity, who knows in 5 years time this dev could be making a GOTY, everyone starts somewhere and I believe in supporting devs that show some talent.
Seems way better in gameplay than that overly produced F1 manager we get these days. That one just feels shallow. Will give this one a go, looks fun. Did have a laugh with Maldonado on the side of the track in the race you were showing at the end.
Thanks for taking my suggestion from the Monthly Update video, Mack! (If you indeed did - I was the only one to suggest it). In a way, Golden Lap is to Motorsport Manager like what Art of Rally is to DiRT Rally - a stylized, simplified, easy to switch on and off game. I love Motorsport Manager but once you get into a season/try a new series it can get obtuse fairly quickly. Not that that's a bad thing - but by contrast, GL has far more ease of access. And it goes without saying that the F1 Manager games are buggy, incomplete shite and not worth anyone's money or time. I've only fiddled around with this demo a bit, but their previous game, Art of Rally, is a gem. That's how I knew of this game. Give that one a look if the summer months are slow. It's a classic in my opinion - and a must have on the Steam Deck.
This seems like a dramatically stripped down version of Motorsport Manager. Which Mack if you haven't played you will probably adore. Plus the insane amount of mods on the Steam Workshop.
I remember all the early football management Sims on the C64. Imagination was what made them great. Modern games take away the imagination factor - the whole point of games.
@@aev6075 Nah you're reaching here. I'm not an engineer and don't know the difference between Grand Prix and Formula 1 but even I know there's a tonne of science, research and development that goes into these races and the cars and all that. Even I've seen the cars stopping mid race to be idk tuned up or whatever by the pit crews and all those people on the computers with the headsets.
@@velvetinedrapes4359 Yes. Again, from the point of view of engineering. This applies to evey aspect of the car to make it perform better. But from the race view point it's nothing but blibs going around a track. It's as if one thing can be observed from multiple perspectives.
Just completed Selaco literally a min or so ago, well worth checking out Mack, it has the brutal enemies of FEAR with the story progression of Half Life 2, did it on Commander difficulty and it was def a challenge, took me about 9 hours to complete chapter 1, chapter 2 is still in developement. It comes from an indie developer and i think you'll love it.
> Game is in Early Access for £20 > plays like the lovechild of FEAR and Ion Fury > is longer and more complex than most £60 FPS games > huge amounts of customisation to make the game the most fun for the player > built in GZDoom wtaf > srs GZDoom!? > Dev says that's only 1/3rd of the game
@@yuriyui F1 Manager is pretty good, but I agree with the above, Motorsport Manager is a much more immersive game. I even quite like the fact that the teams are just fake versions of the real ones. Plus you can create a team in it and work your way to the top. Plus, there's endurance racing and GT racing in it too... albeit the GT stuff isn't that dissimilar to the single seater stuff.
As a kid in Bournemouth (born in 66) I had a set of F1 Top Trumps cards. My favorite was the John Player Special team. It was indeed the pinnacle of F1 racing in that decade.
I mean .. I can't even remember how many days I played Football Manager 2005 way back (and its best counted in days, not hours). Just numbers going around on a pitch but I absolutely loved it. This is now on my wishlist.
Alright Mac, I gave you a fair shake and kept it open longer than I would have. Your trick worked. But racing aint for me so I must tip my hat and be on my way
There was a hand held soccer (football) game I had as a kid back in the early 80's. It had red lights, literally. That's it. I could not stop playing it. In my mind I could picture the players on the field. Graphics aren't everything. I'll check this game out based on your recommendation.
If you want a game like this but with actual graphics showing cars racing in dynamic weather, with the option of choosing open wheel, endurance or sports car racing, with several classes, building your own team from the ground up or jumping right into the top class, which inspired the actual F1 manager games, go get Motorsport Manager. It is also much cheaper than the F1 manager game.
why base it in the 70s when at that time they didnt even use hard, medium or soft tyres? it was just slicks or radials (treaded), i know nit picking..Maybe some licensing fees would apply if they used a more recent time period ?
Echoes of Kenny Dalglish: Soccer Manager, Commodore 64. Always managing Kettering, for some reason. Not about what you could see, but what you could do.
i reckon best was 70s F1, it was still accessible to completely wild entrants (Eifeland, Hesketh, Tecno, Connew, (probably another ATS) etc.) some did it because they were just mad lads some did it because they had no idea what they are getting into and i do not even dare guess why the multitude of Italian teams (no doubt born out of conflict with Enzo Ferrari) justified their spitefull crussade. Sure there were crazy teams all the way up untill 90s, last decent decade of the sport, but none were as crazy as as 60s-80s random teams. Partly because you'd just get March body, ford engine and there you go thats your formula one .) (it did work wonders for at least one team - Williams) Anyways yes i do think that management game for F1 is pretty good idea, especially from good times era.
I know nothing about F1 but I love a good old fashioned sports management sim. They always muck it up with 3d graphics, it's good to see they didn't go that route here.
To be honest, judging a racing management game by its visuals is like judging a C5 Corvette for its off road capabilities, pointless. Its all about that engine, how it determines outcomes, strategies etc, If thats good then i can see this been extremely addicting. It reminds me a lot of the old Football management games before they went to their 3D match engines, before that they were similar ball icons floating around a field but it was compelling to watch, i can see the same with this for sure
Coming from the makers of Art of Rally an Absolute Drift, I have to say I'm dissapointed. I hope they return to normal racing gameplay on the next title, it was awesome.
Well, the graphic is not much worse than Football Manager, that for me is still nowadays the best sport videogame on the market. And the one that steal more of my time.
"Gotcha Racing 2nd" and "Greashifters" would be my alternatives - at least you get real cars and, in the second, weapons. But, I must admit, I am intrigued and will probably buy. I'm hopeless at driving the damn F1's, and don't want the management sim. This seems to strike a nice balance.
Football Manager 2* doesn't look much more sophisticated, but then, that's not what matters if the game has depth and rewarding strategy elements. 👍 Actually Football Manager on the Vic-20 wasn't much less sophisticated looking...
Well at least the drivers aren’t 60% female like in Motorsport Manager. While I’m a huge Michele Mouton fan, even she would acknowledge that women just don’t compete in F1, so having over half the drivers be female is weird.
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It's easy to slag this off by looking at the GFX but that is very narrow minded, it's quite a fun little racing management game, the tactics work, you feel like you are running a team, it cuts out all the bullshit you get from the big F1 games that simply copy and paste themselves every year for the masses. And more importantly this dev has an eye for good gameplay and I for one am very happy to give his game some publicity, who knows in 5 years time this dev could be making a GOTY, everyone starts somewhere and I believe in supporting devs that show some talent.
Couldn't have said it better myself
Seems way better in gameplay than that overly produced F1 manager we get these days. That one just feels shallow.
Will give this one a go, looks fun.
Did have a laugh with Maldonado on the side of the track in the race you were showing at the end.
I mean it's good to show off small creators but this has nothing on motorsport manager which is nearly a decade old in comparison
Have you never played Motorsport Manager? This is just a dumbed down version of that.
Thanks for taking my suggestion from the Monthly Update video, Mack! (If you indeed did - I was the only one to suggest it).
In a way, Golden Lap is to Motorsport Manager like what Art of Rally is to DiRT Rally - a stylized, simplified, easy to switch on and off game. I love Motorsport Manager but once you get into a season/try a new series it can get obtuse fairly quickly. Not that that's a bad thing - but by contrast, GL has far more ease of access. And it goes without saying that the F1 Manager games are buggy, incomplete shite and not worth anyone's money or time.
I've only fiddled around with this demo a bit, but their previous game, Art of Rally, is a gem. That's how I knew of this game. Give that one a look if the summer months are slow. It's a classic in my opinion - and a must have on the Steam Deck.
This seems like a dramatically stripped down version of Motorsport Manager. Which Mack if you haven't played you will probably adore. Plus the insane amount of mods on the Steam Workshop.
100%
Thought the same thing. MM is a brilliant game.
Reminds me of Championship Manager in the early days. Dots on a football pitch and walls of text
yeah these "developers" are pumping out pure garbage in vain cash grab attempts. wouldnt take more than a couple of weeks to code this shit up.
God knows how many hours I put into CM...
In the very early days it was just walls of text
@@Grandmastergav86 I was just about to say this. I'm so old it wasn't even dots on a pitch. Just a pop-up text box every few seconds.
I remember all the early football management Sims on the C64. Imagination was what made them great. Modern games take away the imagination factor - the whole point of games.
"Numbered balls racing around a line" - and that's precisely what racing is, if you think about it 🙈
IDK, bit more complicated than that. Aerodynamics and all that.
Minus all the crashes
@@Garycarlyle From the point of engineer for sure. Not from the point of the race itself I'd say.
@@aev6075 Nah you're reaching here. I'm not an engineer and don't know the difference between Grand Prix and Formula 1 but even I know there's a tonne of science, research and development that goes into these races and the cars and all that. Even I've seen the cars stopping mid race to be idk tuned up or whatever by the pit crews and all those people on the computers with the headsets.
@@velvetinedrapes4359 Yes. Again, from the point of view of engineering. This applies to evey aspect of the car to make it perform better. But from the race view point it's nothing but blibs going around a track.
It's as if one thing can be observed from multiple perspectives.
"graphics" is a big word
Can't wait for a TEXT based racing game.
A tight left turn is comming up. What do you do?
> Turn Left!
It's fascinating what these new 16bit computers can do!
Especially megadrive with “blast processing” 😂
My favorite intro you ever presented!
Looks like Championship Manager, but with balls on a line instead of pricks on a field 🤣👍
Tempting but I doubt my rig could run it Mack.
Triple-Ey-Up gaming.
😂 Maybe use a ZX Spectrum 48k and you’ll be fine 👍
I still play Football Manager with the 2D players running around the pitch 😅
I still play CM97/98, which is just flashing text describing what's happening!
AAA Studios: You need top of the line graphics to make video games!
Golden Lap: Hold my line graph…
Now if the Devs added James Hunt jumping out his coloured ball and lamping Riccardo Patrese, that would really capture the "Golden Era of F1"!
This is the reason I spent $6k building a PC. . .
Just completed Selaco literally a min or so ago, well worth checking out Mack, it has the brutal enemies of FEAR with the story progression of Half Life 2, did it on Commander difficulty and it was def a challenge, took me about 9 hours to complete chapter 1, chapter 2 is still in developement. It comes from an indie developer and i think you'll love it.
> Game is in Early Access for £20
> plays like the lovechild of FEAR and Ion Fury
> is longer and more complex than most £60 FPS games
> huge amounts of customisation to make the game the most fun for the player
> built in GZDoom wtaf
> srs GZDoom!?
> Dev says that's only 1/3rd of the game
£50 was worth a lot more in 1970.
Oh yeah, finally something grand prix
I sunk a lot of hours into game dev tycoon and it was a similar thing where you don't need graphics for a game to be enjoyable. Might give this a go.
You can have a great game that has limited or no graphics. Your mind is the best computer accessory.
sometimes all a gamer needs is for numbers to go up
Motorsport manager with F1 mod has all this but much better.
It does but it's also much more detailed, which is a positive and negative as it becomes basically an Excel spreadsheet manager.
Which one is better gameplay wise, Motorsport manager or F1 manager? planning to get 1 this summer sale
@@yuriyui Motorsport manager with the F1 mod is widely thought to be better than F1 Manager.
@@18T220 Motorsport manager it is then, thanks 😄
@@yuriyui F1 Manager is pretty good, but I agree with the above, Motorsport Manager is a much more immersive game.
I even quite like the fact that the teams are just fake versions of the real ones.
Plus you can create a team in it and work your way to the top.
Plus, there's endurance racing and GT racing in it too... albeit the GT stuff isn't that dissimilar to the single seater stuff.
As a kid in Bournemouth (born in 66) I had a set of F1 Top Trumps cards. My favorite was the John Player Special team. It was indeed the pinnacle of F1 racing in that decade.
Looks like “Motorsport Manager” but a diluted version wdyt Mack?
Yep, Motorsport Manager came to mind immediately (and it had graphics). :)
Yep
Literally came here to say this, seems like a downgrade from what we already have out there
playsport made a mistake, not making another version.
Same. Looks like a less in-depth version of that game. Doesnt mean its bad, it looks fun.
I mean .. I can't even remember how many days I played Football Manager 2005 way back (and its best counted in days, not hours).
Just numbers going around on a pitch but I absolutely loved it.
This is now on my wishlist.
This reminds me of Premier Manager II on the amiga. Used to watch my dad playing it as a kid, you just see a ball going side to side during the match.
I think it’s by the same developer as Art of Rally and that one was a gem!
Love these sort of games. Has basic idea but not all the in-depth stuff that can bog you down from the fun aspect.
we need a super computer cpu intel core-i69 6969 toiletlake to run this game !
Ahhh right up my street this, definitely jumping on this.
Alright Mac, I gave you a fair shake and kept it open longer than I would have. Your trick worked. But racing aint for me so I must tip my hat and be on my way
There was a hand held soccer (football) game I had as a kid back in the early 80's. It had red lights, literally. That's it. I could not stop playing it. In my mind I could picture the players on the field.
Graphics aren't everything. I'll check this game out based on your recommendation.
"Behave yourselfes" 😂😂😂
We played Football Manager for years looking only at commentary, and it was great. Excuse me Championship Manager of course.
LOL that intro 😂
Need this game! I have full confidence in the dev behind it!
Don't forget how Grand Theft Auto started out.
Would love to see a window in the corner that shows a driver view. Just for something
Great idea!
I used to play Football Manager on the Acorn Electron... it was amazing!
This reminds me of this old F1 shareware game I had on the Amiga ...spent hrs and hrs on that, think I got it for £1 at a sunday market 😀
I would of been impressed in my Spectrum Pitstop days by the graphics of this. Such a modern day graphics ho now.
So it's like the billiards only with the vroom vroom noises. That's really good.
There must be a market for people that like balls going up and down a line
AAA game right there, Pretty sure my old acorn electron had something the same.
I wanna see a racing manager game where it’s a full blown cinematic
If you want a game like this but with actual graphics showing cars racing in dynamic weather, with the option of choosing open wheel, endurance or sports car racing, with several classes, building your own team from the ground up or jumping right into the top class, which inspired the actual F1 manager games, go get Motorsport Manager.
It is also much cheaper than the F1 manager game.
"The new Circus is in the town!!!!! " 😂
I'm getting Adventure Vibes with a bit of GAMBOLing vibes as well.
What a really cool flash/mobile game. Looks like it could be as fun as Out There.
Is RTX 4080 enough for this game?
30fps max with dlss set to performance!
I've watched trough the end, because I've played Dope Wars on DOS... When gameplay is good, graphics don't matter
Man Dope Wars what a throwback! Great game
I've never heard of anything like this. I know I'll never play it but what a fanciful tribute to the glory days of Grand Prix.
I played 100 hours in motorsport manager, this looks like a lite version of that.
That's an interesting layout at Monza. The long right hander in sector 1 is my fav. turn in racing.
I'm actually interested in this. Thanks for the review.
Many people already commented but yeah this is poor man's motorsport manager
Rumour has it the devs are already working on a sequel about bathroom cleaning. It will be called golden shower.
cringe.
@@scooterbgaymes lol
why base it in the 70s when at that time they didnt even use hard, medium or soft tyres? it was just slicks or radials (treaded), i know nit picking..Maybe some licensing fees would apply if they used a more recent time period ?
cant wait for this to come out
Echoes of Kenny Dalglish: Soccer Manager, Commodore 64. Always managing Kettering, for some reason. Not about what you could see, but what you could do.
Nice graphics! Kind of reminds me of NGU idling game...
Playing with balls never been this entertaining.
i reckon best was 70s F1,
it was still accessible to completely wild entrants (Eifeland, Hesketh, Tecno, Connew, (probably another ATS) etc.) some did it because they were just mad lads some did it because they had no idea what they are getting into and i do not even dare guess why the multitude of Italian teams (no doubt born out of conflict with Enzo Ferrari) justified their spitefull crussade.
Sure there were crazy teams all the way up untill 90s, last decent decade of the sport, but none were as crazy as as 60s-80s random teams. Partly because you'd just get March body, ford engine and there you go thats your formula one .) (it did work wonders for at least one team - Williams)
Anyways yes i do think that management game for F1 is pretty good idea, especially from good times era.
I know nothing about F1 but I love a good old fashioned sports management sim. They always muck it up with 3d graphics, it's good to see they didn't go that route here.
You know you can just zoom out in the other motorsport manager games to make it 2d right? 3d is completely optional.
Literally Motorsport manager just shittier 😂
But apparently it's not! I've read quite a few reviews and it's not got the annoying micromanaging aspect that Motorsport Manager has.
@@aarongreen121What else is there to do as a manager?
That’s game is really graphically outstanding. I think it’s the best Atari 2600 graphics I’ve ever ever seen.
Sees graphics....peace out! :D
Mac is playing with his balls again...
Im still playing Motor Sport Manager 2 on my ipad and that came out in 2017. Very limited but still fun esp if you edit names
Looks like an f1 management game I played on mobile.
Why use balls and not little cars? 🚗 (just a thought)
Championship manager 2003 does F1 😂
Great preview
this looks great
It’s not GFX bad if it’s stylistically cohesive. It looks great!
i thought you were taking the piss about the graphics.... till i saw the numbered balls going around a track
Sounds like a great management game where graphics matter not.
To be honest, judging a racing management game by its visuals is like judging a C5 Corvette for its off road capabilities, pointless.
Its all about that engine, how it determines outcomes, strategies etc, If thats good then i can see this been extremely addicting. It reminds me a lot of the old Football management games before they went to their 3D match engines, before that they were similar ball icons floating around a field but it was compelling to watch, i can see the same with this for sure
Anyone else getting marbles olympics vibes from this?
Coming from the makers of Art of Rally an Absolute Drift, I have to say I'm dissapointed. I hope they return to normal racing gameplay on the next title, it was awesome.
Btw guys the new F1 manager is going to be 30 pound they admitted charging 50 was ridiculous
Todays PowerPoint is on fire!
Well, the graphic is not much worse than Football Manager, that for me is still nowadays the best sport videogame on the market. And the one that steal more of my time.
great tip ! thanks
developed on the unreal 5 engine?
It does remind me of a watered down version of Motorsport Manager.
"Gotcha Racing 2nd" and "Greashifters" would be my alternatives - at least you get real cars and, in the second, weapons. But, I must admit, I am intrigued and will probably buy. I'm hopeless at driving the damn F1's, and don't want the management sim. This seems to strike a nice balance.
This is giving bras foot vibes
I LOVE THE MUSIC IS THAT FROM THE GAME OR YOU MR. MACK?❤?
Glad I kept my commodore 64.
Not an accurate F1 Simulator, Maldonado didn't crash once.
Who’s your F1 team Mack?
I'm gonna go out and get a wheel and pedal setup for this.
At least it doesn’t have x x xray vision 😂😂
wheres the xray vision ???
For better or worse, I definitely don't have the attention span for this game. Sounds fairly interesting though.
the music is so loud in the background!
Reminds me of teletext and I have no idea why ……. It shouldn’t and has no reason to but it does
Football Manager 2* doesn't look much more sophisticated, but then, that's not what matters if the game has depth and rewarding strategy elements. 👍 Actually Football Manager on the Vic-20 wasn't much less sophisticated looking...
I've been playing this game on my mobile for years...
Mack, I'm sorry but you've lost me. This is like sex without eyes XD
Fm players unphased
Well at least the drivers aren’t 60% female like in Motorsport Manager. While I’m a huge Michele Mouton fan, even she would acknowledge that women just don’t compete in F1, so having over half the drivers be female is weird.