Haha, I couldn't tell which direction I had to take without looking at the other cars. I love the car designs and lighting btw!
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Neon Racer's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Fun | #17 | 3.960 | 3.960 |
Visuals | #44 | 3.920 | 3.920 |
Theme | #81 | 2.920 | 2.920 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Great execution of a racing game. Great music, great pixel art, and good vehicle physics. Plenty of powerups to keep things interesting. While I agree with some other reviewers that more sounds would help, I think what was done here stands well on its own. A very strong entry!!! Great Job!
I love these micro racer kind of games! But I really missed the sound effects hard in this entry more so than in most other titles missing any sound effects and I'm not sure why...
Anyway, super cool title!
I really liked the music and the idea of the shopping carts! Congratulations!
OK, this was amazing. There is definitely a lot of that "oh yes this is so fun I'm doing so well even though I'm actually not but who cares I'm having fun" kind of feeling, mostly thanks to the music (the first track is a straight-up banger). However, I do feel like you could improve this with:
- More punchy sound effects
- More cool visual effects
- Maybe a crowd cheering sound effect?
- Maybe the Doppler effect?
One more thing I'd like to mention is that I practically never stopped accelerating, so I wondered if maybe it could be even better if you were always accelerating toward the cursor, and used only the left and right mouse buttons for items? I feel like that would really add to the hectic feel of it all.
Overall, really nice and fun entry, with some more time could become a very enjoyable game.
The cars reminded me of Sokpop Collective btw.
Thanks for the great feedback!
I really haven't done many sound effects before, this was really my first big attempt. And if I had more time I'd work on the visuals. I'll see what I can do with the doppler, that's a really great idea - and thanks for adding a link!
So I built the game for controller with the analog stick being direction/acceleration and then wasn't sure what to do with the mouse. What I might do is one click to constantly go, one click to stop.
Thanks again!
A beautiful, interesting race with good AI!
There are not enough engine sounds.
Good luck in development =)
Wow! This was so much fun! I loved the different secret boxes! My favorite was the shopping carts filled with sunglass-wearing pineapples! haha. I wish there were more sound effects though. Other than that great job!
I'm a huge sprite-stacking fan too! ;P
If you like sprite stacking consider checking out my 3d Sprite stacking engine for game maker studio 2.3! Love your models, really good stuff!
hahah, I like the random trolleys the most. I also struggled not knowing which direction to go to in the beginning, I just settled for 0 laps and went about in circles just picking up the mystery boxes xD. Nonetheless, overall great fun, music and graphics! Keep up the good work!
Nice retro racer! Wacky controls and tight graphics. Loved the music, but I kind of missed the engine sounds! And I couldn't really find the Neon-theme in this one to be honest. Rated!
Damn, I love it! Biggest gripe is how hard it is to instantly tell which car is mine at the start and that nothing seemed to tell me the way I have to drive first in the 8 shaped track.
But those are minor things. Fun game and sweet graphics
A solid racer with some nice car physics. Reminds me of Micro Machines! I found playing with the mouse super odd - this should've been with the arrow keys instead. Also car sounds would've been nice.
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