Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 6! My name's Hythrain, and I'm one of the hosts and streamers for this event! This feedback is being written live on my stream.

As the title promised, it's a retro racing game. It was fun to play, but there were a few issues I felt needed to be addressed...

1. I did all my testing with AI, and the AI is just way too good. I found, especially during the final lap, that one or two small mistakes would lead to me being sent to last since all of the AI racers were together.

2. I've made this suggestion with another racing game that was in a past FQ event and I'm going to make it for yours as well: you should have a map in the top right corner. Knowing who is in what place doesn't matter as much as being able to get an idea of the map course, especially since you could easily just put the racers on said map and that could show who is in what place.

3. This is a personal suggestion as someone who tries to learn all they can about copyright and trademark law: don't call your game "Double Dash." Besides the fact that this name has no bearing on what's in the game, this would be a good way to get Nintendo to give you issues. They've trademarked the "Double Dash!!" part of the Mario Kart Double Dash logo, and while yours doesn't match it perfectly (different font, no use of dash lines and exclamation points, but the flag thing was used for Super Circuit), they could still come after you if they so chose to. Given that the font is absolutely the same as what Nintendo has used on past games and even matches the style of "Super Mario World," they could make a strong argument about the idea of you using the two aspects combined to lure people in using the Mario brand.

These are the big things I came across. I look forward to seeing more! :)

Overall a very enjoyable retro racing game. I like the stages, my child joined in to play as well it's intuitive enough for her to get a grip. She does have one request, can the player car have blue color? lol

Your game starts at 24:36

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2095808922

I love racing games, although I am really bad at them. :) When I raced against computer cars, they went ahead quickly, and I never saw them again. The browser version worked fine for me, and it was fun. It would be helpful to see the overview of the whole track before the race starts. Also, the time for different racers after the race ends.

Great game! Gives me the vibe of Moto Recer from 1997 (nostalgia hit hard xD)
I feel like adding some kind of speedometer would be nice, but still great job :D

I love the retro vibe and definitely see myself playing something like this with some folks online ... which is also impressive that you had that, did not manage to find people to play online, but the fact that it is there is already impressive enough.

I think I found a bug though ... if you press left and right arrow keys individually without accelerating, something weird happens with the music, it seems to kinda stutter

You definitely nailed the retro racer vibes. And I got to say, I did not plug in a gamepad for this which is typically the classic mistake while playing a racing game. But I found that your game actually played great with the keyboard anyways, so that in and of itself is impressive. Loved the music and the different courses, you managed to give each one a very unique look. The only feedback I would give is that the AI racers seem a bit too good, as I made one mistake early in the race and then never saw them again. 

Hey, I remember your entry! Loved your game, and left some feedback in the judge's section of the other jam! I will leave just some small notes that I did not get a chance to put in the other one!

- I liked how fast I was able to go in the game, but something I would have liked personally would be a speedometer. I like being able to see if I am reaching a max speed.

- Potentially remove the Android control buttons from the Windows build? Kind of picky, but some weird mental thing for me is that I like a game that feels like its native. Though I am very sure it does run native, its a weird thought in the back of my mind whenever I see mobile controls on a desktop application or web game.

- The game is definitely challenging (though I am also really bad at driving games so maybe its a skill issue with me lol). Maybe add some slower bots potentially as either extra drivers or in an easy mode?

If you ever get the chance could you also try out my game as well? It was supposed to be for 32Bit Spring Jam, but did not get a chance to properly polish. Anyways, nice work on your game and I await to see your future progress :D

Great game, feels very polished.

The only issue I have would be diffculty, I don't know if I just suck but I  could never get past any other car (bots). Is there a turbo mechanic or something that I'm missing  ? xD I might try again another time.

Awesome work overall :)

Played in browser, the game looked and ran great.  Flat-ish art style and music were great.  The perfect-traction physics model allowed for fun racing even without any elevation changes, but the collisions feel awful.  Cars seems to sort of teleport away from each other, and don't exchange momentum properly.  I can imagine that the perfect-traction model limits the sort of collision physics available, but perhaps a different compromise would be better.  Maybe the cars exchange momentum a la Newton, but instead of sliding sideways they just turn into their new velocity vector.  

The bots were good, but not unbeatably so.  Still, they could use more variance, as getting 3rd place is about as hard as getting 1st.  Give us one slow bot!

This seems like a solid and enjoyable base.  A little extra would go a long way to adding interest to the game and it's tracks.  Maybe boost (or bounce!) pads on the tracks, maybe some items to pick up or interactive environment pieces to set traps.