Emki's Kard Racing by emkiusz
Emki's Kard Racing is a combination of card and, well, racing game. Choose your deck and place power-ups on the race track. After that try to beat your opponent in a race.
2 LOCAL PLAYERS ONLY
Controls:
Player 1 - WASD
Player 2 - Arrow keys
Made using: GameMaker: Studio, GIMP 2
Sadly, I didn't make it in time. Game is missing one of the most important features - Working power-ups. You can still place them, but they're not even coded to do anything. The game was intended to be much bigger than it is now, but I encountered many, many unexpected problems and had to cut half of the game. Originally, you had only 5 cards in the first turn. You could get another 2 in next 2 turns. I also planned more cards, including ones affecting the enemy's deck.
I consider this game as my personal failure. I'm gonna add stuff like sounds and menu options later, some time after the jam, but right now I'm exhausted. That's my first LD game I'm not proud of. However, it's still playable, so if you just wanna race, grab a friend and have fun.
My nickname in the title is to avoid duplicating other games, if someone had the same idea. It's not because of my ego. :)
Ratings
| Overall | 554th | 3.024⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 527th | 2.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 243th | 3.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 253th | 3.786⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 382th | 3.167⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 369th | 2.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 435th | 2.861⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 45🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
I think this is a really cool idea, unfortunate that you did not make it in time but cool idea nontheless.
I like the racing game. It is probably fun to play with different power ups. I don't know how or when the cards that you choose would have been played but you could really make something out of this concept.
One thing about the cars, when I steer left and the go forward, it rotates counter clock wise as it is supposed to but when I go backward it must rotate clockwise when I press left because I actually control the positioning of the front tires, just like a real car.
What is missing for a complete game would be using the cards, music and sound effects, probably an AI opponent because LD games are mostly played by single players. This is really a lot to do in 48 or 72 hours but you did a great job on what you have right now. I especially like how it runs on my 32 bit XP VM and is a very small .exe. This is the way it should be, run on every Windows without any hassle! :-)
Graphics are nice but could've done with a bit more polish, but I reckon if I'd spent less time polishing my GFX I'd probably have managed to complete more features of my game, so take that advice with a grain of salt. Great job :grin:
Took me a few minutes to get my bearings and understand it all - and it's a shame the powerups don't work - but I really like the idea
I got stuck in the geometry a few times, and I wish you could only race for a few seconds before going back to the card part, but it's good work!
It's a shame you couldn't get the power ups working. The idea however sounds really interesting, I'd go ahead and try to finish the game outside LD.
And add an AI opponent ;)