Novus Idea — Game R&D Studio | Racing The Beam & CyberVGA

Flagship Studio Release

Racing The Beam

“How long can you stand?” A high-speed 20-track stock car oval series built on the CyberVGA engine. The name is a double tribute: racing the classic CRT scanline beam, and racing real-time CPU-traced light beams.

Download on itch.io (PWYW)

Golden Dusk Pack Racing — 32-Bit x86-64 JITRay + L1-SH GI JITRAY 32-BIT

20 Ovals. Dual Rendering Pipeline. Pure Stock Car Pace.

Drive stock cars across 20 banked speedways, chase lap records, battle through a 20-race Cup Championship, or test your nerve in Survival mode where the pack is out to eliminate you.

4 Core Race Modes: Single Race (custom laps & time of day), Time Trial (pure pace), Cup Season (full 20-race points championship), and Survival (knockout elimination).
Live Renderer Toggle: Starts in multi-core 32-bit x86-64 JIT Raytracing with L₁-SH Global Illumination, hard shadows, reflections, AMD FSR 2.0, and CRT phosphor/curvature shaders—with classic 8-bit 320x240 Mode X always one toggle away.
On-The-Fly Cameras & Telemetry: Switch seamlessly between Chase, Hood, and Cockpit cameras (C key) with 6 persistent driver career profiles (BEAMDRV.PRF).
11 Languages & Full Controller Support: Complete UI localization (EN, DE, ES, FR, PT-PT, PT-BR, TR, RU, JA, KO, ZH-CN) and plug-and-play gamepad support.

20 Speedways Q16.16 Physics x64 JIT Raytracer AMD FSR 2.0 CRT Shaders 11 Languages

Distribution Editions

Choose Your Edition: Solo PWYW vs. Full P2P Crossplay

Because the solo arcade loop is focused and fast-paced, the standalone single-player edition is Pay-What-You-Want on itch.io. The full Steam & Epic Games Store distributions expand the experience with Online P2P Crossplay Multiplayer, cloud saves, achievements, and global lap leaderboards.

Steam & Epic Games Store Edition Steam • Epic Games Store

Full Online P2P Multiplayer & Crossplay Edition

Engineered with a unified Dual-SDK networking layer combining Steamworks and Epic Online Services (EOS) so Steam and Epic players can race wheel-to-wheel in the same pack.

Dual-SDK P2P Crossplay

Host a P2P lobby and invite friends directly through the Steam Overlay (Shift+Tab) or Epic Social Overlay (Shift+F3), or share an instant Lobby Join Code / PUID with Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V clipboard support.

Seamless AI Pack Backfill

Open P2P lobby slots automatically populate with synchronized AI stock cars so every superspeedway draft pack stays fierce regardless of lobby size.

Online P2P Lobbies (Steam + EOS): Real-time target position, velocity, and yaw synchronization over low-latency peer-to-peer connections.
Global Track Lap Stats & Achievements: Per-track best lap tracking in Q16.16 fixed-point seconds across all 20 speedways plus 5 localized achievements in 11 languages.
Cloud Saves & Rich Presence: Automatic profile sync (PROFILES.IDX, BEAMDRV.PRF), live store Rich Presence status, and Steam Input action sets.

Includes Online P2P + All Single-Player Modes

Steam (AppID 5565970) Epic Games Store

Pay What You Want (PWYW) Available Now

itch.io Standalone Single-Player Edition

The single-player arcade experience is compact, focused, and replayable—so we made the standalone DRM-free build Pay-What-You-Want on itch.io.

Name Your Own Price: Download the complete single-player Windows build (RTB.7z, ~13 MB portable archive) with zero installer or DRM required.
All 4 Solo Game Modes: Single Race, Time Trial, 20-Race Cup Season Championship, and Survival Mode across all 20 speedways.
Full CyberVGA Graphical Suite: Includes the multi-core x86-64 JIT Raytracer + L₁-SH GI, AMD FSR 2.0, CRT shaders, and classic 8-bit 320x240 Mode X toggle.
Local Career Profiles: 6 configurable profile slots saving career wins, laps, cup standings, and per-track records locally.

Download PWYW Edition on itch.io

Proprietary Engine & C SDK

CyberVGA SDK v1.8.0

Pure-CPU 3D software rendering and real-time x86-64 JIT raytracing engine. No Direct3D, Vulkan, or GPU raytracing APIs—built from scratch in C and Assembly around deterministic Q16.16 fixed-point simulation and a 30-bit 3D Morton-ordered sparse octree.

Get CyberVGA SDK on itch.io

x86-64 JITRay — Real-Time L1-SH Global Illumination & Reflections F7 / F11 LIVE TOGGLE

Where the CPU Instruction Pointer (`RIP`) Is the Octree Cursor

CyberVGA started as a pure 1990s MS-DOS Mode X (320x240) software rasterizer in C89 and NASM. In v1.8.0, the Win64 build pairs that deterministic fixed-point simulation with JITRay: a multi-threaded CPU raytracer that compiles the loaded level's octree, active volumes, and material shaders directly into native x86-64 machine code at runtime.

Switch between the 32-bit x86-64 JIT raytracer and the classic 8-bit paletted software rasterizer on the fly with F7, or slide a live split-screen divider side-by-side with F11.

# Compile your own C game against the Win64 SDK in one command:

C:\CyberVGA> JackInWIN64.bat WALKER.C release bin\WALKER_WIN64.exe

# Included SDK Binaries & Documentation:

bin\WALKER_WIN64.exe • bin\VIEWER_WIN64.EXE • bin\CEDIT_WIN64.EXE (CyberEdit)

lib\libcvga.lib • include\*.H • DOC\VOL0..VOL7 (8-Volume Manual + IEEE Paper)

Download SDK & Demo on itch.io

RNDR/RAYTRC/RAY_X64.C

Direct-Threaded x86-64 JIT Octree

Emits native x86-64/SSE machine code into a VirtualAlloc buffer on level load. No outer loop, no struct lookup, no recursion stack—on an AABB hit execution falls through; on a miss, a baked ja rel32 (0x0F 0x87) jumps straight to nodes[skip_index].

RNDR/RAYTRC/RAY_GI.C

L1-SH Global Illumination

Solves multi-bounce indirect lighting on the CPU using a 16×8×16 world-space grid of 2,048 L₁ Spherical Harmonics probes paired with emissive Virtual Point Lights (VPLs), Fibonacci sphere sampling, and per-material JIT bounce stubs.

RAY_PBR.C • FOGVOL.C • LIQVOL.C

PBR, Volumetric Fog & Liquids

Cook-Torrance GGX microfacet specular, tangent-space normal mapping, recursive reflections, Beer-Lambert volumetric fog & spotlight cone shafts, and refractive liquid volumes with Snell's law ray bending and underwater caustics.

GFX/VGA_SPAN.C • A_RAST.ASM

Classic 8-Bit Mode X Rasterizer

The original Q16.16 software rasterizer lives under the same binary: affine and 16-pixel perspective-correct span drawers, 1/z depth buffering, 64×256 LUT lighting with 4×4 Bayer ordered dithering, and self-modifying x86 span emitters.

PHYS/PHYS.C • GAME/CAR.C

Fixed-Point Physics & Vehicles

Deterministic Q16.16 multi-threaded capsule-vs-octree and capsule-vs-capsule collision resolution with 4-iteration wall sliding, plus a 4-wheel Hooke's law spring/damper raycast vehicle dynamics simulator.

CEDIT.C • GFX/CFSR.C

CyberEdit & AMD FSR 2.2

Includes CyberEdit, a 4-viewport editor for parametric brushes, 64×64 terrain heightmaps/splatmaps, lights, and real-time .COC octree baking, paired with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.2 temporal upscaling.

Studio Catalog & Active R&D

Games & Upcoming Projects

From dystopian narrative shooters and split-keyboard tether runners on CyberVGA to authentic MS-DOS Mode 13h experiments and our upcoming atmospheric RPG, Harmony Tree.

Browse All on itch.io

Browser + Win64 on itch.io

Narrative FPS • CyberVGA 320x240 256-Color

COUNTED

“EVERY CITIZEN COUNTS.” You are Unit 9, an Enforcer sent into Sector Nine to correct the count. The Broadcast has already explained what happened. The workers are lying. The records are accurate. Your assignment is routine—unfortunately, one of those statements may be incorrect. Created for Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 on CyberVGA with original engine, story, world, and music.

320x240 Mode X Custom 256-Color Palette ~15 Min Narrative FPS

Windows & Web Play / Download on itch.io

Play in Browser on itch.io

1–2 Player Tether Runner • CyberVGA SDK

FUSED

“DON'T TOUCH. DON'T SNAP.” Spark is fire that learned to run. Charge is a powder keg that learned to walk. Tied together by a live fuse across a 5,000-meter industrial night plant of slag, slick oil, blue water, and red-hot plates. Play solo controlling both characters at once, or share one keyboard with a partner and split the blame across 3 fuse lengths (Chilled, Hot, BOOM!).

1–2P Split Keyboard 16-Color Night Palette 320x240 VGA Mode X

HTML5 / DOS / Win64 Play on itch.io

Authentic DOS Mode 13h

Retro DOS Arcade Action • Borland C + TASM

Cat Burglar

“Risk It For The Biscuit!” The year is 1994, and patrolling guard dogs protect the cookies with one-hit lethality. Stay dangerously close to the guard dogs to multiply your score while snagging the loot. Hand-coded in Borland C and Turbo Assembler (TASM) under 32-bit PowerPack DPMI with double-buffered Mode 13h (320x200) rendering and a custom 3×5 pixel font renderer.

VGA 320x200 Mode 13h Borland C + TASM 32-Bit DPMI

Win • macOS • DOS Download on itch.io

In Active Development

Upcoming Narrative Exploration RPG • Built on CyberVGA

Harmony Tree

A handmade software 3D engine meets a shaman's path into the dark. A young woman searches for an elder who vanished into the woods and discovers a mysterious voice beneath the roots. No swords, no stats—move forward, explore the shadowed forest, and listen. Currently in active development at Novus Idea on top of the CyberVGA engine.

In Development CyberVGA Engine Atmospheric Narrative RPG

Studio R&D Project Follow on itch.io

Who We Are

Engineering-First Game Development

Novus Idea is an independent game research and development company based in Istanbul. We specialize in building custom rendering engines, deterministic simulation pipelines, and distinctive games that bridge the immediacy of 1990s PC & demoscene graphics with modern multi-core systems programming.

Whether we are hand-tuning x86-64 JIT octree traversal kernels, baking L₁ Spherical Harmonics probes, or crafting tight 320x240 palette-driven worlds, we treat hardware-era constraints as creative catalysts rather than limitations.

01 // ZERO BLACK BOXES

Custom C & ASM Toolchains

We own the entire stack—from our 4-viewport world editor (CyberEdit) and octree baker to software rasterizers and runtime JIT machine-code emitters.

02 // DETERMINISTIC CORE

Q16.16 Fixed-Point Math

Physics, collision sliding, and vehicle suspension run in deterministic fixed-point arithmetic across MS-DOS, Win64, and P2P multiplayer sessions.

03 // DUAL AESTHETIC

Mode X Meets Raytracing

Crunchy 256-color ordered dithering and real-time 32-bit global illumination coexist inside the same binary, switchable at the press of a key.

04 // PLAYER-FIRST

Accessible & Cross-Store

From PWYW standalone builds on itch.io to Dual-SDK Steam & Epic Online P2P crossplay with 11-language localization.

Connect With Us

Write Us & Follow Development

Questions about Racing The Beam, licensing or building with the CyberVGA SDK, or press inquiries? Reach out directly or follow our devlogs.

Studio Location

Küçükyalı Merkez Mahallesi, Maltepe, İSTANBUL

Direct E-Mail

[email protected]

Data Protection & Transparency

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 6, 2026. This Privacy Policy explains how Novus Idea handles information across our website (www.novusidea.net), the CyberVGA SDK, and our games including Racing The Beam (Steam, Epic Games Store & itch.io), COUNTED, FUSED, Cat Burglar, and Harmony Tree.

Standalone Policy Page

ZERO AD TRACKING

No Telemetry or Data Brokers

Novus Idea does not embed advertising SDKs, behavioral analytics trackers, or third-party marketing pixels in our website, engine, or games. We never sell or rent user data.

LOCAL-FIRST STORAGE

Offline & Standalone Builds

Our itch.io standalone titles and the CyberVGA SDK operate 100% locally. Driver career profiles (PROFILES.IDX, BEAMDRV.PRF) and settings are saved directly on your device.

STEAMWORKS + EOS P2P

Scoped Storefront Services

In the Steam and Epic Games Store editions of Racing The Beam, platform data is used strictly for P2P crossplay lobbies, achievements, lap leaderboards, and cloud saves.

1. Website Visits (`www.novusidea.net`)

Our website is a static site that does not set first-party tracking cookies, require user accounts, or run analytics scripts. Standard web server access logs (such as IP address, browser user-agent, and requested URL) may be transiently processed by our hosting provider strictly for security, abuse prevention, and content delivery. Fonts and UI assets loaded from Google Fonts, jsDelivr (Bootstrap), and Cloudflare CDN (Font Awesome) are subject to their respective infrastructure privacy policies.

2. Standalone Games & CyberVGA SDK (itch.io / DRM-Free)

Standalone builds distributed via expfunction.itch.io—including the Racing The Beam Single-Player PWYW Edition, COUNTED, FUSED, Cat Burglar, and the CyberVGA SDK—do not connect to the internet or transmit any personal or gameplay data to Novus Idea. All configuration files and career save profiles remain solely on your local storage.

3. Steam & Epic Games Store Editions (Online P2P & Crossplay)

The Steam and Epic Games Store editions of Racing The Beam integrate Valve Steamworks SDK and Epic Online Services (EOS) to provide online peer-to-peer (P2P) crossplay and store features. When you launch or play these editions, the game client processes the following platform-provided data in memory:

Account Identifiers: Your SteamID, Epic Account ID, and EOS Product User ID (PUID) to authenticate sessions and establish cross-platform lobbies.
Display Name & Language: Your public Steam persona name or Epic display name (used to seed default local driver profile names and display your car tag in multiplayer lobbies) and store locale code (to select among 11 supported UI languages).
Multiplayer & P2P Networking: When hosting or joining an online race, real-time vehicle state packets (position, velocity, yaw, and race standings) and lobby join codes are transmitted directly between peers via EOS_P2P / EOS_Lobby relay sockets and Steam Lobbies. Novus Idea does not operate dedicated game servers or log player IP addresses.
Achievements, Lap Stats & Cloud Saves: Unlock state for the 5 in-game achievements, per-track best lap times (best_lap_t0–best_lap_t19 in Q16.16 fixed-point seconds), Rich Presence status, and career save files (PROFILES.IDX, *.PRF) are synchronized with your Steamworks or Epic Games account.

4. How We Use & Share Information

Novus Idea does not maintain an external database of player personal data. Any account identifiers, display names, or telemetry packets processed during gameplay are used solely at runtime to execute the features you request (such as joining a friend's P2P lobby or syncing your cloud save). Information is shared only with other players currently in your active multiplayer lobby (your display name, vehicle state, and lap times) and with Valve Corporation (Steam) or Epic Games, Inc. (Epic Online Services) in accordance with their platform privacy policies.

5. Data Retention, Deletion & Your Rights (GDPR / KVKK / CCPA)

Because Novus Idea does not store your personal data on proprietary studio servers, you retain direct control over your data at all times:

Local Save Data: You may reset or delete your local career profiles at any time from the in-game Profile Manager or by deleting PROFILES.IDX, BEAMDRV.PRF, and PROF_*.PRF from the game installation folder.
Storefront & EOS Permissions: You can manage or revoke Epic Account Services access via your Epic Games Account Portal, and manage Steam Cloud saves, stats, or account data directly through the Steam client and Valve support.
Direct Inquiries & Erasure Requests: If you email us directly, we retain your message and email address only as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry. You may request access to or deletion of any correspondence at any time.

6. Children's Privacy & Policy Updates

Our website and software do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or the applicable age of digital consent in your jurisdiction). Any updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Privacy & Data Protection Contact

Novus Idea — Küçükyalı Merkez Mahallesi, Maltepe, İSTANBUL
Email: [email protected] • Direct URL: novusidea.net/privacy.html

Wireframes, Pixels & x86-64 Machine Code.

Our Primary Focus: Racing The Beam

Racing The Beam

20 Ovals. Dual Rendering Pipeline. Pure Stock Car Pace.