Traction Bugs

This was really fun! Such a cool idea and could definitely see it being expanded on into something bigger! Great work :)

Fun and polished little game. Lots of different tracks.

Controlling a swarm of minicar? Ok, I admit, this is fun! I would have love to have some kind of highscore at the end of the game.

The only minor issue I see is that the "health" bar is on the top of the screen, and it hides the incoming road.

Hey great job! That was super fun. I gotto say this is probably one of the most unique games I have played in this jam so far. Also, I love the charming graphics. Especially that ant head finish xd

Nice innovative idea for a driving game, its a shame that the "health" bar is blocking the view of the road ahead.

super fun idea! I was a bit confused at first but afterwards is quite satisfying! :D

I normally don't like racing games that much, but controlling a swarm of bugs is something else :)

good job!!

Yea the healthbar really gets annoying, and in hind-sight was probably not necessary since the size of the colony already shows the health!

Nice job, it was fun watching the stream!

Not bad, you should consider uploading a thumbnail, it makes people more likely to click on your grame

As a meta-commentary, I got confused for a bit because the title screen shown here is not in the actual game.

Now, I'm not surprised it's a racing game, but I'd never expected to pilot hundreds of ant-driven cars all at once :) It was fun to try to aim for a flawless run as fast as possible, I just wish there was something tracking the best times (and whether they were flawless). Also, it was cool that the credits were a track on itself.

Thanks for the suggestions. I added a new screenshot and a cover image! Cheers

Ooooh nice concept, had fun racing around with the swarm of cars !
Controls feel a bit weird, but I can't quite nail down why, and it doesn't run as well as i'd like, but fun entry regardless !

Excellent game, it was fun to manage a colony of ants, worrying about everyone)) The controls are very simple and intuitive, which allowed us to focus on completing the game. Great job

What a nice concept that is! I can see this going many directions: survival racing game where you keep going to next level with what survived, more speed focused with the mechanic that the more bus are still alive the swarm can go faster, need to sacrifice some bugs for shortcuts which increases the risk of not making it, etc.
If I have one point that throws me off is the "invisible swarm queen" which is controlled by the player and that the other bugs try to go to. Perhaps having a visible "main character" or dynamically adjusting it (because I managed to get ahead of my bugs and then it's hard to control) could potentially improve this, but I also get the point of not having it.
I really enjoyed playing this and it's a very solid entry. Well done!

Fun idea! It was nice to try levels couple of times to learn the best driving lines. I think the camera angle made it a little hard to see the road ahead, but I thought this was very innovative game. Everything worked as expected, I didn't notice bugs other than ants.

Game felt polished. Music set the mood for racing :)

I don't know why, but the game doesn't work for me at all. The music turns on, I see the start and a lot of cars, time ticks, but nothing moves. I tried to run different files, but it's all the same... but it could as well be my computer, it's been weird lately.

@daria-toni Sad to hear :( I added a note to use arrow keys to move, I don't know if that could be your issue? Otherwise, the only thing I can think of is maybe that your keyboard layout may not be compatible. Hope it helps!

double message, can't delete :(

Quite a fun game, controlling this swarm of bugs is way more difficult than you'd imagine!

Had some fun trying to complete the courses with as few as possible bugs surviving, :laughing:. It's just too much fun watching them slam into walls.

What an awesome little idea and a great execution! It's fast and colorful and I really enjoyed it. Thanks!

Well I'd love to the play the game, but for some reason, I get a black screen after the logo shows up. I still hear the sound, but it's hard to play without seing anything =/
(I also tried the potatoes)

Cool little game! Had fun playing it till the end. :)

The audio feedback was good, when I lost my little cars.

It happened to me, that I lost some cars when I already reached the finish line and I couldn't do anything about that. I would suggest to change that.

The controls felt alright and the difficulty was nicely implemented. It got harder, but not unfair. The visuals were clear and I like that you put the "credit screen" as an additional track into the game. :)

@axodo If you don't mind, what do you have for a system? OS, Graphics Card, etc? It may be an issue in my custom engine that hasn't been discovered yet.

@timbeaudet I hope that helps!
(Sorry, it's in french)

Huh. I was expecting something AMD related; RTX 3060 is basically the same card I have (3070); If you open this directory there might be a log that helps. May also be able to play with some of the settings. `C:\Users\\AppData\Local\TyreBytes\LudumDare56\`

I would try changing some of these values vs whatever is setup by default, the ao/bloom are somewhat new and suspect in my engine.

```"show_ao":false,
"show_bloom":false,
"show_particles":false,
"show_reflections":false,
"show_shadows":true,
"single_pass_shadows":true,
"super_sampling":0,
```

Thanks for digging and trying, I appreciate the help.

Wow! The game is so wonderful! Keep making games!