Grand Theme Auto

by tsjost
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★17%
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Control with WASD and space for 'handbrake' turns. Run over all the good themes in order to downvote them, leaving all the bad themes sailing to the top...

Written in C++ in a few hours with SDL2, compiled to the web with emscripten.

After giving up on the game, I decided to continue with a few hours left. I had to integrate Box2D to handle collisions, but still use the vehicle physics I had written, which has resulted in a lot of weird collision bugs.

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Comments10

Suese
Suese24 Aug 2015, 02:18
How watery those things are. E for effort :p Maybe next time!
GAFBlizzard24 Aug 2015, 04:08
Funny idea about the themes. What does spacebar do? I only got WASD to do anything.
tsjost24 Aug 2015, 09:19
Spacebar does a fancy handbrake turn that is so powerful it doesn't even slow your car down!
demogorgon24 Aug 2015, 13:07
It's exactly what I hoped it would be. Collisions for the non road bits are a tad bit wide, but you made the compo.
Fenreliania
Fenreliania24 Aug 2015, 13:13
Oh how I watched you struggle, but you got something out there in the end! Collisions are a bit buggy as you know, and the hitboxes are larger than they seem. Could do with some kind of opposition so you have the potential to lose - maybe have PoV driving around upvoting all your downvoted themes? :P
pta2002
pta200224 Aug 2015, 14:19
Nice! Pretty funny how you chose themes XD
Jani Nykänen28 Aug 2015, 18:10
Yay, I'm killing rectangles with numbers inside! Not bad.
carlmartus28 Aug 2015, 21:24
I like the smooth handbrake steering.
mantis30 Aug 2015, 18:37
If only there was some cops to hunt you after a killing spree! Great idea :)
valid4life31 Aug 2015, 04:55
That was quite the interesting play! For a few hours, thats pretty darn cool

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