I think I ran into that looping tyre sound bug once myself, but it was in a multiplayer game where I'm pretty sure the host got disconnected. The sound in general does seem to be a bit much, though I think it may be another one of those things that's cropped up because I was well used to steering the car before I even added it in: I suspect it's much more grating if you're frequently taking more than one full circle to make a turn, rather than hearing it only briefly on each corner.

A bigger track is a neat idea. I did consider it while making this (particularly as the Kenney racing pack seems to include assets for wider corners), but by that point it would essentially have meant building a new one from scratch. I'm also not positive how it would affect the gameplay: chances are it would mean less running into walls, but it might also offer rather a long way to drift off course. But if I added more tracks to the game, having some wider options would be one way to increase variety if nothing else! The balloon battle idea is an interesting one too. I feel as though it would probably require weapons/powerups that might mean a departure from the two-button control scheme, but at the same time I can imagine forcefields, orbiting drones, melee weapons popping out of cars - the sort of thing that might be activated on pickup and then simply remain in play until it timed out.

Ah! I was wondering if anyone would ask about the controls. Part of the reason is that I felt as though if I went with WASD or arrow keys, people would end up trying to turn left due to muscle memory: every other game of this sort allows it, so I wanted something substantially different so players wouldn't have a finger hovering over a useless key out of habit. As to why "A" and "M" specifically, I type on a Dvorak keyboard and those are the two keys that are positioned the same as on a QWERTY keyboard.

Yeah, a couple of people have mentioned that. I think because I got the hang of it while testing, I didn't realise that people would take so long to get around the track when picking it up for the first time: based on the fact that the game has more ratings than leaderboard entries (and that the slowest recorded times are in the region of four minutes), it seems a fair number of players don't manage the full three laps at all. Once you can get round the corners reliably, it takes less than two minutes to finish. I'd quite like to expand the game, though, and will definitely throw in a one-lap practice run if I do.

Thank you! I figure anything under three minutes is a decent time, especially if that was your first try.

The cars do collide with one another so you can shunt opponents around to an extent, but not yet having got four players together online I can't be sure exactly how much of an impact it'll have on the game when you get a real pile-up. My guess is that collisions will generally do more harm than good to everyone involved so the optimum strategy is probably to get out in front as quickly as possible and try not to get blocked into a corner by someone who's also frantically trying to spin their car in the right direction.

That said, you may be able to block an opponent by hogging the left side of the track, then steering right if they try to get around you that way: once you're both scraping the right-hand barrier, they can't realistically overtake.

Thanks! Unless I threw in something I'm forgetting, the graphics are exclusively from the Kenney racing pack - they're always great for jams but I think this is the first time I've found one that covered literally everything I wanted to include.

Thanks! Sound was something of a late addition, and the screeching tyres were definitely the hardest thing to get working at all: there's a lead in, a looping middle section, and a fade out that would all have to be adjusted independently (or all set to share a volume variable). By the time I added the single player mode I'd more or less ruled out any more fine tuning, since it doubled the number of places I'd have to go in and tweak things. It's definitely not ideal as-is. If I ever expand this into a more complete game, I'll aim to let players adjust the volume of various sounds.