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My entry is Cart World: a little retro console with 6 cartridges. Pick a cart, push it into the slot, and play. Beat one cart to unlock the next.\n\n\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f The carts\n1. Survivor: an auto-attacking horde survival game\n2. Drift Kid: arcade racing where drifting is everything\n3. Star Route: a vertical shoot 'em up\n4. Climb Kid: a tight precision platformer, 3 chapters\n5. Bounce Pit: balls bounce through rows of monster bricks\n6. Card Spire: a tiny 10-floor deckbuilder\n\n\ud83c\udfa8 Everything you see and hear (pixel art, chiptune music, sound effects) is generated in code. The only outside asset is one font. Every cart has its own 4-color palette, and you can swap palettes at any time.\n\n\u25b6\ufe0f Play in the browser, no download: []\nKeyboard, gamepad and mobile touch all work.\n\nI'd love your feedback, especially on:\n- Which cart did you play longest, and which did you drop first?\n- Was anything confusing in the first 30 seconds?\n- Is Climb Kid too hard? Is Card Spire too easy?\n\n\ud83d\udcac Leave a comment with a link to your game. I'll play it and rate it back, I promise. 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My entry is Cart World: a little retro console with 6 cartridges. Pick a cart, push it into the slot, and play. Beat one cart to unlock the next.\n\n\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f The carts\n1. Survivor: an auto-attacking horde survival game\n2. Drift Kid: arcade racing where drifting is everything\n3. Star Route: a vertical shoot 'em up\n4. Climb Kid: a tight precision platformer, 3 chapters\n5. Bounce Pit: balls bounce through rows of monster bricks\n6. Card Spire: a tiny 10-floor deckbuilder\n\n\ud83c\udfa8 Everything you see and hear (pixel art, chiptune music, sound effects) is generated in code. The only outside asset is one font. Every cart has its own 4-color palette, and you can swap palettes at any time.\n\n\u25b6\ufe0f Play in the browser, no download: []\nKeyboard, gamepad and mobile touch all work.\n\nI'd love your feedback, especially on:\n- Which cart did you play longest, and which did you drop first?\n- Was anything confusing in the first 30 seconds?\n- Is Climb Kid too hard? Is Card Spire too easy?\n\n\ud83d\udcac Leave a comment with a link to your game. I'll play it and rate it back, I promise. Thanks for playing!\n\n\n","title":"Cart World \u2014 found an old console in a drawer. Does it still turn on?","wayback_source":{"record":"runs\/20261019T033044.759590Z\/records\/0002.json","object":"objects\/1176643293f7669a37d47b02017aad91b49ac51458304dfe993270a249a7d547","sha256":"1176643293f7669a37d47b02017aad91b49ac51458304dfe993270a249a7d547","response_url":"https:\/\/api.ldjam.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/434259+435784+434083+432870+435783+435484+433694+433683+433593+435645+433051+432990+435782+434552+435781+435224+433716+434916+435397+435780+434407+434923+435777+435779+434817+432788+432883+435401+435776+435773+435775+432778+435522+435352+433548+435771+432989+434239+432801+435772+435770+435769+433107+435768+433594+435670+433166+433000+435304+432777","captured_at":1792380647}}