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Modnation racers is a 3D racing game created by United fronts, A branch off of Media Molecule (The game company behind Little Big Planet, 2D plat former), that continues the family friendly environment with the ability to design and use vehicles, characters, and courses. The game features a simple campaign to introduce the drifting  control mechanic and to give out items to make creating easier. After completing a few races, and agreeing to a very long Terms of Use contract, the player is launched into the "Modspot" a large playground-esque location which supports up to 30 people driving around. The game makes a mistake in this location, and quickly teaches the players about Creation xp. To level up, the player can either race online (100 xp for the winner), or create something (character, kart, or track) and have others download it (100 xp for a download, 20 for a view, 5 for a race). There is no cost to download the creations, but players can quickly notice that creation xp (from others downloading their items) is more easily obtained than racing xp. Rather than creating original pieces or working on art skills by recreating other images onto characters/karts, nearly all of the players do the bare minimum and exchange "Download for Download" where they boost (to cheat to increase their score) to reach the highest level. The racing portion of the game is a lot more involved than Mario Kart, featuring a unique Drift system, that fills up a Boost meter that can be used for both boost and shield. In its initial launch the game had incredibly long load times, which caused its game rating to suffer (by reviewers), and for all create games the game only becomes fun after the first month. With the first update, Load times were cut down to two minuets, rather than five or six. Tracks gradually became more and more involved and the community reached its highest point sometime in 2011 (A year after its launch), at that point they stopped making DLC (Downloadable content) and the game slowly devolved as the creators found better outlets to create.

(Kart: WoonaStuck intellectual property of http://woonastuck.tumblr.com/ (Egophiliac)  [Characters owned by Hasbro], created by a friend nicknamed Omega)