Better Game Experience Through Game Metrics: A Rally Videogame Case Study

Rally racing is probably the oldest branch of motorsport, dating back to the origins of motor competitions in the late nineteenth century in Europe. Unlike track-based competitions, rallies take place on normal roads in a point-to-point format, alternating transfer and competitive sections. Participants must leave the service park and reach a predetermined start point within a certain time, wait in a row with the others for a staggered start, then race to the finish point in the shortest time possible, and then finally drive to the starting point of the next competitive section. The sum of all competitive stages’ completion times will dictate the final standings. Each rally hosts a total of 15–30 of such sections, called “special stages”, in a time period between 3 and 4 days.

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