Nosy God Car Racing by JanGamesDev
Nosy God Car Racing is the odd fusion between a racing game and a god simulator. You are the god so pick a car and do whatever you can to make sure it wins the race, you have 9 different goodly abilities to make the punny humans do what you like, you can make a car change lane by your command or struck someone with a lighting.
How to play
Can be played only with the mouse. And there are shortcuts (1-9) for the abilities. To use the abilities select them using the mouse or the keyboard shortcuts and then click on the car you want to affect. All abilities have a cooldown (when they are greyed out)
Screenshots

Tools
Assets: Inkscape SFX: BFXR Music: Wolframtones (Someday I will make my own music, but not today) / Audacity Code: Haxe (https://haxe.org/) / Kha and Kode Studio (http://kha.tech/) and Kext (My own library, don't use it, its really broken and there are a lot of changes to do after this jam, use Kha though, it's amazing!)
| HTML5 (web) | http://juanrinaudo.github.io/games/html5/LudumDare41/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/nosy-god-car-racing |
Ratings
| Overall | 458th | 3.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 345th | 3.275⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 381th | 3.3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 460th | 3.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 459th | 2.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 337th | 2.825⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 372th | 2.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 454th | 2.816⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
Nice art and sounds, though. I liked the aesthetic
But other than that, it was definitely a unique take on the genres, I just wish there was more of it (like I do of most good Ludum Dare games - nobody ever has the time to do all they'd want).
Personally, even with the hotkeys, I still found it clunky to have to press the car I desired. This made changing lanes kind of pointless because by the time I clicked the right ability, and got my cursor over the intend target, the situation had changed enough to make it moot. A system like @Slashee-the-cow mentioned might solve this.
Still, it was a ton of fun, and a great mashup of genres! Nice job!
@tero-pulkkinen Thanks for the feedback and I agree that the controls need more work.
@alferbayter I'm glad you had fun :D
@gurbx Thanks for the feedback, I was going to add descriptions or a help but my brain was to overloaded by the end of the development, enlarge make cars faster (and eventually they would hit neighboring cars but the gameplay too fast paced to get to that point) shrink make cars slower.
@wramp Thanks for playing and they are shortcuts but they are not explained ingame (I added them at the last minute) D:
@slashee-the-cow Thanks for the feedback and the ideas, and as always the initial idea had money, betting and upgrades but didn't make it in time.
@gamedevbynight Thanks for playing fellow Kha developer ;D
@nick-rafalski Thanks for the feedback and yeah I agree most of the abilities are there just to have fun (the command left/right are pretty useful to make civilians crash into enemy cars) and I should have made the input a little easier.
@rewzu Thanks for the feedback, and yes, those areas are not my strongest, I need to work on them.
@jshaffer94247 Thanks for playing, and someone else played only with boost and lighting so they are at least 2 different strategies :P