Sketchy 'lectrics

by alan123
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.54
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Inspired by literally every cool car toy you had in the '90s this game sees you driving a car on a slot car racing circuity where (if you're any good at driving) you are literally "stuck in a loop". The aim of the game is to be stuck in a loop for as long as possible, ideally a complete lap. That's harder than it looks though!

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All assets are original, created during the Jam created by our team of 5.

Supported controls include keyboard, mouse, touchscreen and game pad. The game works best with an analogue input (i.e. anything but the keyboard!). For best experience you'll want to race against another human player as the AI is a little too good right now.

Once you click to start playing you need to pick a track with mouse/touchscreen inputs and choose 1 or 2 controllers.
- Controllers: press the accelerator button
- Keyboards: press "W", "space", "up arrow" which will become your accelerator
- Mouse: click the + on the mouse icon
- Touchscreen: tap the touch screen controller icon.

Tested and supported browsers include Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. (Sorry iOS users, we don't have one to test on but it probably works).

There's some limited high-score tracking functionality but this isn't very polished yet.

If you're feeling adventurous there's a track editor available in /editor, but no way to play your tracks yet without editing sourcecode.

screenshot

Comments18

Unicornfrog
Unicornfrog5 Oct 2020, 22:17
very nice the voices in the game :)
Comari5 Oct 2020, 22:45
Fun game! Thanks for the submission.
oneiromancer
oneiromancer5 Oct 2020, 22:45
The voicelines are adorable, and the game is quite fun. Gotta say though, local co-op is a risky route to take on a jam like this.
Rhaelser6 Oct 2020, 00:14
Would've been nice to have some kind of boost, instead of both cars at the same speed. But nevertheless, well done! I enjoyed playing it :v:
WormJuice6 Oct 2020, 01:29
Like the concept, its like the old track cars we had at home. To bad the ai was overpowered. Apart from that i feel this could be a really great game subgenre in racing games. Nicely done.
pee-thief
pee-thief6 Oct 2020, 03:38
Hell yah, I loved my slot cars
Trypants6 Oct 2020, 04:56
Had fun, too bad the AI was too strong.. Would've been a good idea to introduce other mechanics (Boost etc.) Great Entry!
Alan123author6 Oct 2020, 07:18
@wormjuice and @trypants we did plan to make the AI more error prone and like a real player, but never quite got around to that one before we ran out of time.
Brin6 Oct 2020, 11:03
Nice absic idea, very fitting to the theme, however, i feel like the gameplay is maybe not the greatest.
Tristan10Cats6 Oct 2020, 12:57
Fun idea, the voices were really cute
Tamail6 Oct 2020, 14:51
Nice idea but it kind of seemed that once you get just a little bit behind, there's nothing you can do about it. Otherwise it's a good idea for this theme!
frances
frances8 Oct 2020, 04:18
According to the boyfriend (who I played this with) it reminded him of his childhood. Nice game! It was fun to play.
runrajrun
runrajrun8 Oct 2020, 16:53
Nice game.. The 3..2.. 1.. count was awesomely cute :')
Sophiablabla8 Oct 2020, 22:41
Cool game! Nice sound effects and cool perspective. Seeing my car fly away in flames was a nice surprise :D
hgcummings10 Oct 2020, 17:17
Liked the concept and aesthetic. Simple controls are great, but a bit more feedback on your current speed would have been useful. I could see some numbers at the edges of the screen that might have been showing this, but something easier to read out of the corner of your eye, like a car speedometer, would be very useful, so you could get used to the top safe speed for different corners.
Thooom15 Oct 2020, 17:42
This is the hardest game I found this LD, is it even possible to beat the AI? I can't even get close. But you made me try, so well played!
blobo
blobo15 Oct 2020, 17:45
Ha! I love the "Kaboom!" sound effect! It genuinely had me laughing! Great job, but it's a bit too difficult for me!
croze
croze24 Oct 2020, 19:34
This is amazing lol, love the sound effects and the graphics are nice too! Reminded me of playing slot cars with my dad. The AI was way better than me, my fastest lap is 6.4s

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