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Leeds Beckett Rio Racers launched
The web-based game, Rio Racers, features 2013 BSc (Hons) Sports Performance graduate and British record holder, Tom Bosworth, who will be competing in the men’s 20km race walk in Rio, which takes place on Friday 12 August.
Rio Racers takes its inspiration from ‘button bashing’ athletics games popular in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Daley Thompson’s Decathlon and International Track and Field.
Speaking about the development of the game, Andy Sandham, Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Creative Technologies & Engineering, explained: “There was no greater evening than an evening spent in with a copy of Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the ZX Spectrum, battering seven bells out of its odd rubber keyboard! When developing Rio Racers we wanted to make sure we created a quick, fun game without undermining the amazing efforts of the actual athletes - hopefully we achieved something that will lead players to check out the athletes real-life performances in Rio!”