Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → T.O.R.Q
By badpiggy
π€ The developer uploaded this game to itch.io, and declined to answer whether AI was used or not.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD60 | Ever | |
| Overall | 32 | |||||
| Fun | 32 | |||||
| Innovation | 32 | |||||
| Theme | 32 | |||||
| Graphics | 32 | |||||
| Humor | 30 | |||||
| Mood | 31 | |||||
The game is great, but the style is a bit strange. It took some time to figure out the controls, no more than 5 minutes. I think the recovery time is too short. Otherwise, I liked it. I didnβt close it until Iβd collected everything.
This has no business being this hard XD Probably skill issue on my end but in only 1 out of 5 runs I managed to get to the second lap lol. Anyways it was fun! Great entry!
Easy to learn, hard to master. Everything felt intuitive to me after a little practice. I like the animation of the little guy revving up the gear before the race starts.
Great work, very fun π€
Hahaha ok! I like the basic idea, but jumping over enemies to get more energy for your gear while not falling off bc you get a speed boost is pretty hard. Also, since this is racing, having some floor boosts near the natural racing line would be helpful. I also found myself wanting to smash into other racers, not just jump over them. That said, I like the basic idea. I'd just like to see where you take it. Nice!
This was fun, if very challenging. I'm too slow to react It'd be cool to have a mario kart style version with bumpers so you don't fall off. π
I did die a few times on the cross-road bit of undetermined causes, not sure if I got jumped on by another player, or I ran out of spins..
Really well designed! It is hard, but in a positive way, and the controls, music, and graphics all make it worth staying to try to finish it. I appreciate how much you have to control your speed, and the fact that enemies take the outside route means you have to be very careful about when you attempt a jump. If I had any criticism, it would be that sometimes the jump collider felt a little unfair, but otherwise great experience.
FINALLY WON, take me 20 try minimum. Super fun, excellent gameplay idea, graphics simple but really good. Here my score. SpinScore.png
Hell yeah! The music makes it feel way more extreme than it probably should be. Had to really focus to finish the race!
Once out of energy, the character stops very suddenly, I feel like that really crashes the mood. What if it had something like a second-wind mechanic where you can still glide to a booster or over an enemy?
I think it could be more clear that you can't really break while the gear is in the red outline. Once I figured that out, it became much easier.
I liked the small details as well! Very cool!
Art direction is clean and consistent, as usual, if a little bit thematically unclear. Sound design was great, gamefeel also great! The difficulty felt pretty unforgiving at first. I guess I eventually realized that I needed to take it as less of a "race" where the goal is to go fast, and more of an abstract action game where the goal is primarily to jump over people. Even after I figured that out it still took me quite a while to successfully complete a race, although I did manage it in the end (my time was 56.64). Fun game overall! I'm usually not a huge fan of combat-based games, which a lot of yours are, so it was nice to have a non-combat-oriented game that still had that fast-paced action feel.
I am very bad at this π€£ It's a great concept though, and fun, and it looks really cool.
Screenshot 2026-10-21 at 16.41.51.png
**Six Seven**
Anyway, professional game, as always I spent more time than expected.
The game gives a wonderful feel of elegance, I don't see any part of it that is not used, and what I didn't expect is that this is a new take on such a game. Combining new solutions and making it elegant is remarkable.
My only criticism is that the game makes it very hard to jump over each and every enemy. Their paths often close to the edge of the road, thus making it not possible to jump over without a huge risk of falling off the map. Also I find it a little annoying to wait for the timer. Yes, of course it is some form of punishment for mistakes, but I see this game more like a speedrun, like VHOLUME or FALLSTRUKTUR (I would love to know your record on FALLSTRUKTUR original map). So if it is actually a speedrun game, it should not ask to wait to start a new try.
I also like details, like trail behind player gear. It's funny to say, but at some point it gives me a good enough marker to aim my movement, and that helps me jump over enemies better.
Also, I have a general "why": why are we jumping? Why does it give us some boost? Did you have some reasoning behind it all? Of course, it's an abstract game with game design in front, but it seems kind of reasonable on second thought, though I still don't get it.
@filgreen3
First of all, great score and thank you for the feedback :)
As for the timer, I originally meant this game to be more of a racing game, which is why the startup timer is even present to begin with. I suppose in the end it became more of a speedrunning-esque 3D platformer lol. ( Keep in mind that the startup timer doesn't add seconds to your time in the end though. That starts counting only when you actually start moving )
As for " why " jumping over an enemy gives you a boost, I didn't really think of any lore reason at the time. I just wanted to do something different from just taking out opponents by dashing into them like in burnout. Hence the idea to instead jump and around them.
If you'd like sstory a reason for why it gives you a boost and energy for your gear, I suppose a reason could be that the player siphons energy from them by jumping over them or something like that lol.
Pretty cool game, really fun, though I would've wished I could control the camera with the mouse. But anyways I didn't beat it, I almost did, on the last lap I run out of energy, but I really like this game, maybe it would be cool with more levels or upgrades?
Love this game so much. I suck incredibly at it but am motivated to keep trying just based on the gameplay alone. It does feel unforgiving, but in a way that makes me want to git gud. Also, the aesthetics in this are so clean! Awesome work, and looking forward to checking out your other games!
this is such a fun gameβ¦ that Iβm super lame at π
I love the startup animation and sound effects! The driving feels really good, but the time limit is pretty unforgiving, and some of the boosters are tricky to hit since they're quite far off the natural racing line.
Beyblade racing, that was cute, but I had a real hard time keeping up enough energy to complete all 3 laps.
not a easy, but very fun game! liked it a lot! 2026-10-22_16-47.jpg
love it, very fun, kind of challenging (took me about 10-15 tries lol)
i feel like that game could be some kind of incremental race game, adding some powerups, bosses, race tracks, and upgrades. whole concept is very great!
Incredibly intense and fun! This must have been pretty challenging to pull off, but the result is awesome. Really impressive work. Great game!
Fun game! Although I'm not very good at it, controls feels good, riding on giant rotating gear wheel is funny idea :) I'd love if wheels would jump out of each other after contact but I guess it wouldn't be even much harder. Anyway, it's great fun, cool game!
Quite tough, but really fun! I had to refrain from trying to go as fast as possible, as I was just depleting my energy. Eventually I figured out that I should actually try and position myself behind the opponents to jump over them (which I guess explains why there are no "positions" like in classic racing games). Great game! Screenshot 2026-10-22 at 21-29-48 T.O.R.Q by Bad Piggy.png
I liked the fast pace, ai enemies and setting, controls are smooth. What keeps u alive (velocity) also kills u in the near corner =D
Nice simple game, fun to play. Not sure about the connection with the theme tho.
Even though the game punishes you for mistakes pretty quickly, it's also quite rewarding when you're doing well. It definitely gives you that sense of speed, when you finally get a good timing on your jumps. I do appreciate that there's some tolarance to the edge of the track, in the sense that it doesn't always make you fall instantly, but you're able to just barely hold onto it instead. There could be some sort of wall here and there though, to make finishing a race for the first time a bit easier. That would also be an opportunity to include an effect of the gear grinding against the wall π
Anyway, here's my time:
The meter drains SO fast! π³ π π° I couldn't make it very far because I kept running out.
EPIC as always!! π€ π₯
I thought for sure you'd use the gear to just shred other racers. π€£
Fun speeding through the track. There's something about driving a cog... Some of the jump overs didn't count as I was expecting.
Well done.
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2909045755?t=03h49m04s)
(And thanks for tolerating our unhinged-ness, lol)
Sorry I suck at this game, I swear I had fun. π
It's a skill issue for me. The life bar depletes too fast. But I liked the art style. Reminds me of fanmade 3D Megaman first-person shooters and F-Zero.
I tried and tried but at least I got to the second lap a couple of times. It would have been nice with an easy-mode for people that suck at racing games π
I really like how the cog wobbles when turning, how it strives to stay on track when you are on the edge and over all the camera work is great!
I wonder though if it wouldn't have been nice with a bit more decoration around the track and maybe theme it even more towards cogs, machines and engines?
It was somewhat confused in the beginning, what the combo counter was for since they cannot be used or seem to influence the outcome of doing new stunts. Many games if you have a combo active, doing new stunts gives a bit of a bonus.
Also didn't really see that I got game over because my meter at the bottom ran out for quite a while.
Play-through with more feedback: https://youtu.be/zGG9w7B-XXA
