Ludum Dare #26compo

Mini Car Racing

by rockford

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.97

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.32

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★54%

(Note: better to use Chrome. It's slower on Firefox.)

You participate in a big race!

Try to cover as much distance while avoiding obstacles: other cars and oil stains.

While oil stains can just reduce your road grip, collide with other car will make you crash...

Instructions:
Click on the menu to start. Use arrow keys during the game.

LEFT/RIGHT -> Move your car
UP/DOWN -> Accelerate or brake

About the game development:
Minimalistic gameplay, art, sounds and code (440 lines).

Comments23

Biped28 Apr 2013, 17:58

Lots of fun. Good job.

papa_troll29 Apr 2013, 09:06

Enjoyed playing it. Took me back to typing in games from magazine listings... :-)

oatsbarley29 Apr 2013, 09:09

This is nice! It did freeze at one point when I was just in the middle of the track and not really doing anything weird. Also perhaps since it's a keyboard-controlled game it would have been handy to be able to start the game by pressing a key instead of having to click with the mouse. Just a suggestion!

caasi29 Apr 2013, 09:31

game freezed when I hold up XD

Joritan Cety29 Apr 2013, 09:46

I like this game! It's simple but fun :)

Brian Corr29 Apr 2013, 09:47

Not bad. Not enough speed control though xo

rockfordauthor29 Apr 2013, 09:48

I fixed what can make the game freeze (however never got a freeze from my side). Thanks for the feedback!

rujo29 Apr 2013, 10:15

simple but funny racing game!

Muu?29 Apr 2013, 10:15

Feels like 80's car games. Good entry.

UP still freezes. (Firefox 20 on Win Vista Ultimate)

Xaychru0429 Apr 2013, 10:15

Funny minimalist game :)

Linus Lindberg29 Apr 2013, 10:17

Solid game!

rockfordauthor29 Apr 2013, 13:24

Freeze bug fixed! I had to remove the engine sound for that, it's buggy on Firefox, perhaps due to the loop or the volume change when acceleration. The game is better under Chrome.

Jackamikaz29 Apr 2013, 16:41

Simple fun :)

ilovepixel29 Apr 2013, 18:18

Nice little game. It's a good thing that it had the audio warning when other cars were on the track.

naufr4g030 Apr 2013, 18:06

Simple but really fun game! It reminds me very old classics driving games! :)

Canyon3 May 2013, 07:34

Is there any penalty to driving at the slowest speed, or is there any advantage to driving as fast as possible. It'd be great if you measured the time taken to reach a distance. Then there seems to be an incentive to not just dial back the speed.

JonRB3 May 2013, 16:44

Not much to it but an addicting little game. I seem to recall having a similar game on my phone AAAAGES ago. The sounds became a little annoying later on when it's just beeping at you all the time but otherwise I don't have any complaints.

GeorgeBroussard5 May 2013, 06:08

Would develop and polish further. Nice prototype. Add more elements and perhaps speed things up a little to challenge people quicker.

wilbefast6 May 2013, 11:14

Simple, but works very well :)

GameNacho8 May 2013, 19:59

Definitely a fun game, good job!

dertom12 May 2013, 23:37

Haha, great! Reminds be of one of the first games a played on a friends zx1000 (1k memory *lol*) back in the 80th. Nice game, that perfectly fit the theme! good job!