Motor Challenge by rvenson

made by rvenson for LD 41 (COMPO)

A racing simulator mixed with interactive fiction. You are a experienced and successful driver in the largest motorsport category on the planet. Your last race should leave in the memory of all your fans everything that you represented for the sport in these years of dedication. Your mission is to finish in the best position possible and close your career with the greatest brilliance.

How to play

You need to be careful about the condition of your car. The pitstop button allows you to change your tires and refill the fuel tank (this should take around 17 seconds), but the other parts can not be replaced. It's the last race of the year and the car is saturated, do not over-accelerate! Good Luck!

Commands

Mouse only

Behind the scene

This is my first submission for Ludum Dare ever. I know that I could not develop both genres the way I wanted to (and it was not easy either because they had to be incompatible). Anyway, it was an incredible experience and I'm already waiting for the next LD.

Tools

Archlinux
Unity3D
Gimp
Blender
Audacity
LMMS

Screenshots

photo<em>2018-04-22</em>21-39-08.jpg photo<em>2018-04-22</em>21-38-55.jpg

HTML5 (web)	https://rvenson.itch.io/motor-challenge
Windows	https://rvenson.itch.io/motor-challenge
Linux	https://rvenson.itch.io/motor-challenge
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/motor-challenge

Ratings

Given

7🗳️

5🗨️

Feedback

F1Krazy

23. Apr 2018 · 06:11 UTC

I feel like there could have been more to this game. I finished 2nd solely by clicking "Keep the pace" or "slow down" based on the gap to 3rd, and then pitting when my fuel ran out. The comments each lap get quite repetitive too. I would have loved to have seen more variety overall, although I'm guessing it simply wouldn't have been possible within the time frame. So yeah, not bad, just a bit repetitive.

🎤 rvenson

23. Apr 2018 · 16:53 UTC

Thanks very much, @F1Krazy. I really felt too that the game gonna be repetitive, the initial pretentions was make a really interactive fiction with more deep storyline. But i concentrated more in the sim mechanics and... you know, is the #compo. haha I really apreciated your considerations. Thanks!

jk5000

23. Apr 2018 · 17:27 UTC

For me this was really fun to play, and the music was also good. The UI was overall pretty and it was easy to use. The Race image was a bit boring, but it shows what was happening, and that is good. Overall a fun little LD game.

Niker107

26. Apr 2018 · 17:47 UTC

I will probably reflect what others have already said. It's an interesting concept, and I went through the first two races I had with a lot of patience and tried balancing the buttons that I pressed, but in the end there were times when I went from nearly last to first by only pressing 'Slow Down'. So eventually my tactic became to drive slowly until I had roughly 10% fuel, and then push it until the end. Except the first time I did this I got to 51/51 actions and stayed there for one or two turns, not winning, until my car engine gave out.

![Screenshot_6.png](///raw/6b3/d/z/142cf.png)

Overall, it's a nice game, but could've definitely used more variety in the monologue lines and interaction with the car and the track.

Rewzu

03. May 2018 · 15:49 UTC

Quite fun game. Decent music and UI. It feels like it's too repetitive though. Overall it's quite nice entry!