27MHz

RC Stunt Racing from 1987!

Drive toy RC stunt cars through 3 outdoor tracks while chasing the clock and doing crazy aerial maneuvers. Share the tape of your run with friends to have them race against your ghost!

Controls

- WASD or Arrows: Throttle, Brake, Tilt forward, Tilt backward
- Spacebar: Hop
- Hold Spacebar + Tilt: Aerial Tricks
- Hold Shift: Turbo
- Esc, Backspace, P: Pause
- Reset car: R
- Restart track: T

Tape Replays & Ghosts

- Every finish is recorded as a VHS tape
- Watch Replay to rewind, fast forward, and pause frame by frame
- "Share Tape" copies a link to your run
- Send it to a friend; they paste it in with G and can race against your ghost
- Runs with a tape icon on the leaderboard can be raced too!

"Why is the game called 27 MHz?​"

Back in the late 80's, hobby remote control cars transmitted on the 27MHz frequency, hence the name. Did you ever own or play with one?

Tools & Process

All music, sound, and art assets were made by me in 72 hours, and Opus 5.5 wrote the code. I made the game using a custom engine built on Phaser.js and Matter.js for physics.


> Art: Photoshop


> Audio: Ableton Live + my electric guitar for the menu track, BFXR for basic 8bit gameplay SFX

Changes

- 10-19-26: Jam version
- 10-20-26: Bugfix version. Players reported serious performance issues on laptops. It was due to the heavy blurring of the background art layers, as well as multiple draw calls. I was able to consolidate the draw calls and fix the blur, improving performance a lot. I felt that change was justified. No features nor content was added.

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Please select "Share Tape" to copy your code, then paste it into your feedback comment below so other players can race against your ghost!

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Post-Jam Version features

- Circuit Mode: 4 full circuits with 4 tracks each.
- More Ghosts: Play against up to 12 ghosts at once
- Car Tuning: Vehicles are fine tuned and have more distinct feels
- Branching paths, improved terrain graphics, better UX/UI polish
- More features to come...

Check out the Post-Jam Version!