Zip Zap by Brad Slayter

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made by Brad Slayter for LD 41 (JAM)

Racing game meets tower defense. Race around a track to earn money with which you can spend to place towers and traps around the track to disrupt your opponents.

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Ratings

Overall 740th 3.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 730th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 393th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 272th 3.974⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 953th 2.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 695th 2.605⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

nander
24. Apr 2018 · 13:24 UTC
Fun game. Controls on keyboard are indeed annoying.
Stending
24. Apr 2018 · 13:28 UTC
The concept is neat! I really love it!

Didn't really understand how many money I had and how to place more than one element by round, so my choices were not the wisest, but it was fun!

The fact that the game create random obstacles is a great design idea to, it really make the player change its behaviour.

Would love to see more circuits!

Cool entry :)
Don Fouts
24. Apr 2018 · 13:34 UTC
Great game! I like how you worked with the theme. I made it to round 5/4 and won 4 of them. The NPC drivers got crushed by a bullet turret and oil slick combo! My suggestion would be to limit the area the NPC can place traps. Most of the traps they put on the map for me were on the extreme edges. Overall awesome work!
Hugimugi7
24. Apr 2018 · 13:36 UTC
Nice idea, but can be easily exploited.
Hakita
24. Apr 2018 · 13:37 UTC
Very fun idea and good execution. Sadly too easy once you figure out what route the AI takes, but if this was multiplayer I could see this being a fantastic party game!
Sun Parlor Studios
24. Apr 2018 · 13:39 UTC
It's a fun little game, nice job man! I did notice quite some bugs (for example I placed a turret near the start and it kept killing all of us :P) but I had quite some fun. Would have loved to see some more feedback on how the other players in the game die. Great game nonetheless! Keep it up!
quijipixel
24. Apr 2018 · 14:07 UTC
Greate game!! The controls on keyboard were not the best for me (alt and ctrl swaps my screen to another desktop on mac so stuck to just directions).
jhandsy
24. Apr 2018 · 18:02 UTC
mouse and keyboard controls worked fine for me! Definitely a good, fun concept. I think maybe the AI wan't quite robust enough to get past any of the traps. Could the AI place traps? After the first race it seemed like a bunch of traps spawned that I didn't place, but no one placed any after that first one.
roaderful
24. Apr 2018 · 18:22 UTC
Liked the idea, car maneuvering could be improved for gamepad and maybe bouncing or loosing little track instead of a dry stop on the walls.
Overall nice game with potential for "party-like" sessions, fun to play, fun to watch.
Alchemic
08. May 2018 · 01:35 UTC
Really great idea, but the towers don't seem to be very effective. The other traps seem much better. Would love to see an expanded version of this game.
TheCze
08. May 2018 · 19:22 UTC
We also made a Tower-Defense Racing game! I liked your take on it.
You can check out our game here if you want to compare:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tnt-track-n-towers
AwesomeAlliterationAlliance
08. May 2018 · 20:44 UTC
Really nice idea to combine those genres. Reminds me a little bit of "Ultimate chicken horse". Nice work!
Zapturk
25. May 2018 · 19:30 UTC
@AwesomeAlliterationAlliance Ultimate chicken horse was definitely one of our inspirations