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Match Racer

By tomdeal

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall473.9726
Fun573.8925
Innovation184.2726
Theme154.3926
Graphics2493.4726
Audio1413.4324
Humor4202.4223
Mood2003.3425

Comments

2018-04-23 20:12

Is it a resolution problem ? My computer allows me to a max resolution of 1680 x 1050 and sometimes my car goes off screen.

shp 2018-04-24 14:58

This game is genius, best one I've played so far, thinking of your momentum in a turn based game is really interesting.

tomdeal 2018-04-24 19:08

yeah, there is a problem with some resolutions. I tested the game with 16:9 and 16:10 and had no problems, but to be safe, a 16:9 resolution should be used. I've updated the bugs section of the description, thanks for noticing it.

rapter 2018-04-24 20:18

Good Game! 5/5 !!!

multiplexor 2018-04-24 20:38

Wow! Really awesome game! It does remind me of "Formula D" (a board game)! Mechanics are well implemented and the game overall feels great!

I just wish there were more cars in the game and there were colisions and such! That would be awesome!

Very nice game overall! Keep up the good work!

cheesey-bob 2018-04-24 21:07

Absolutely fantastic game! Really clever how you've implemented speed, acceleration/deceleration and turning in a turn based setting, and especially how you've linked the match-3 into that in an interesting way. I really like how it adds a layer of strategy to the match-3, because you are looking to get different power-ups depending on where you are on the track. Really nice music and sound too. I suppose the graphics could be polished up a bit, but that's really the only crtiticism it's possible to make.

manimal 2018-04-24 21:19

Interesting game to try

thegreenman 2018-04-25 02:31

Really good game and good interpretation of the theme! I wasn't sure about the turn based racing at first, but the way you handled speed and turning is just brilliant. I'm honestly impressed. The music is great, the graphics look good... It's one of the best entry I've played. ^^

glorious-kittens 2018-04-25 10:38

Great genre combination for incompatiblity, unfortunatly, I think it might even be compatible ;)

blakemcdeezy 2018-04-25 10:40

This is the future of racing! Haha, I had fun and though the different game modes being meshed together was really cool. Good work!

designernap 2018-04-25 10:55

You know, I am not a fan of match three games, in fact I would say I am almost AGAINST them... but this was actually good fun :) Nice implementation and solid visuals. Great entry!

human-writes-code 2018-04-25 11:42

Definitely one of the best games I've played in LD41. It has a real challenge to it when you play it on hard difficulty and the racing concept is really clever and well implemented. Great work!

mac-dragoness 2018-04-26 12:06

this game is really good. I personally didn't like games like Bejeweled or others like that... but this is definitely one of the LD games that is actually fun to play!

spthiel 2018-04-26 12:11

I really liked the game (beaten it on all difficulties :tada: ) the music is great and the gameplay quite easy to understand but hard to master :P

useless 2018-04-26 12:12

really fun idea loved the different music tracks for the two modes. really makes you feel like you're playing two different games!

bionikmonster 2018-04-26 12:13

Hi! I find this game's idea so cool! Nice genre mix up!

mza 2018-04-26 19:14

Nice clean UI. Very professional looking. Great match-3 mechanics. I personally dont like reading too much so the tutorial was a tad wordy for me lol. I have a feeling that this game would be gr8 as a multiplayer game.

Game works really well and 11/10 for the UI.

linky439 2018-04-26 20:15

I love your game! It reminded me a bit of an old board game "Formula D" ^^

The gameplay is top notch, it looks fantastic, love the audio as well... Wonderful for me. If you plan on keeping on working on it, yeah, a multiplayer would be awesome (and other tracks of course ^^)

Congrats! :)

oddballdave 2018-04-26 20:20

I like the turn based racing a lot. Very clever. Great use of the theme as well. Good stuff :8ball:

tomdeal 2018-04-26 22:44

@mza yeah, I thought about an ingame tutorial, but there is never time for a proper tutorial in the compo :-)

@linky439 yes I'm currently examining the possibilities of creating a real app out of the game, however my last few mobile games tanked in the store, so I'm not that confident anymore unfortunately. And I don't think a PC version would do well on one of the bigger stores.

croewens 2018-04-27 20:03

I liked the combination but I felt like it was a bit slow. Pathing sometimes glitched and I got caught behind the "Racing moves" bar so I couldn't finish it. https://imgur.com/L7W9alp

The puzzling part was really well thought out!

tomdeal 2018-04-27 21:03

@croewens yeah, I tried to explain everywhere I could to use the fullscreen button when playing the html version, thats why you unfortunately got behind the UI.

gimbalock 2018-05-05 22:05

Cool entry! the genres work together very well. Nice touch, that you need to slow down for the corners. Good job!