American McGee Pitching New MMO Racing Game

American McGee has been a busy man lately, what with his episodic game Grimm Volume 1 being fully released and Grimm Volume 2 looming on the horizon, but apparently there is no rest for wicked. According to his blog, McGee is also pitching a new concept for an MMO racing game.

BaiJiu Racer is being described by McGee as an “MMO-lite racing game concept with China as the core theme.” The game has been in preproduction with his development company, Spicy Horse, for the past three months. McGee and company have already got all the materials ready to pitch the game to American and European publishers, and he feels the game will be competitive in the online racing world. Currently it is slated to be published in China by Spicy Horse’s partner, ICEE.

Promising a “semi-realistic physics-based racing dynamic” with minimal power-ups, McGee goes on to mention on his blog that he feels BaiJui Racer will be able to contend with Mario Kart or KartRider and is the only Chinese-specific racing game that will include authentic Chinese art, real-world locations, and vehicles inspired by real Chinese cars.