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happens in full screen as well

I’ve always loved Mario Kart so the controls felt very intuitive. Having a ghost to race rather than just a time to beat is great, and seeing a hard mode ghost let me figure out the “wiggle directions while drifting” tech (which is also in Mario Kart!). It’s a shame you couldn’t get more frequent respawn points working, perhaps some “offroad” terrain around turns and corners could reduce some of the brutal-ness of going off-track.

As others said, I too liked the usage of sprites in 3D. Especially the drivers looked super fun sitting in the 3D-modeled car when you get the full turnaround in the start. The diff drivingmodes felt meaningful and it was fun trying to find a balance between in using the modes and when to slide and boost or not.
Only one small issue: I coudn't turn left while drifting. It worked for WASD but it was hard to then use Q and E then so I drove with the arrow keys. Might be just my keyboard is bad. I'm sure its better with a controller though, didn't have one rn.

I loved the overall aesthetic of the game with the 2d sprites and 3d world. Clean UI too. Love the characters. The cart controls very well, still trying to beat some of the tracks on hard! Great job!

simple but charming i like the 2d sprites in a 3d environment

It's so cool to see another racer on here!!!  It looks like we actually had similar core concepts but went in totally different directions with the whole hover vs driving mechanics.

Your game has such tight controls.  I really like the way that you demonstrate the mastery that you can gain with your car with the LIVE ghost that you actually race against.  That is such a cool way to do difficulties in a way that actually lets the player know what is possible with the systems in your game.  I immediately jumped in against the hardmode cpu and got totally lapped haha.

It's also cool that everything reads so clearly with your animations.  I like the sparks to tell when you are drifting, the color shift when the boost is ready, and the different models for which mode you are in.

Graphically I'm a total sucker for some cute 2d art on billboards.  I liked how you really could tell what your guy was doin in the car from the little lean they did.

Great racing game!

Cool old-school Mario kart style!

The controls of the kart were pretty solid and the characters were charming and funny. I like that you had racer AI, but I wish you added some more rivals in a race. It felt a little empty with just one.

Overall, great work!

Great job! We liked that it was more in the style of the SNES Mario Kart. Changing modes was fun. Nice job making the racing AI too.

Great start for a kart racing game. I would recommend using physics-based movement though, since without it the lack of momentum is pretty apparent. Overall though, great job!

I'm honestly shocked I haven't seen a kart racer with this kind of sprite style since mario SNES-- I think fleshed out, there's a ton of potential here. Figuring out the drifting was a blast, and the enemies and tracks were genuinely tough. Great job! Ghengis FTW!!

I really liked the 2d Sprites that you used and the ability to switch between the two different modes. I think a few other people commented about the respawn place already so I won't spend too much time on it! I loved the boost you get from the drifting!

Love a good kart racer! Love the 2D sprites for the drivers! steering felt good! my only complaint is, if you fall off the track anywhere, even at the very end of a lap, you respawn back the beginning of the lap. Would be nice to respawn where you fall off so it doesn't feel as punishing.

Tight controls and solid gameplay, really great entry!

You did an amazing job with this! I love all the different characters I can choose from I played biggy and donsly. So many courses for a jam as well and the different difficulties/times you set up for each for us to race against. I like the mode switching and drifting combo. I think the mechanics as they are now are already compelling and give a lot of room to grow in skill in order to improve ones times on each course.

Nice to finally play this after seeing your progress in the discord. I feel like it can be tricky to get the controls of a kart racer tuned just right but you nailed it! The game handles great. I wish there was more content, but this is already a lot of work for a jam of this length. Wonderful job!

Its a great base for a mario-kart like game, I wish there were more things to the game gameplay wise. Adding in some powerups or drifting or some other mechanics could make this game a lot more fun. Nevertheless, this game is great. Well done!

This game brings me back to my childhood, I used to play Mario Kart a lot and you definitely created something amazing, somehow you brought some details that make me feel like that kid again.

First of all, I love the fact that you gave different personalities to the different characters, and some of them made me laugh, I think my favourite one was Chernglin, because I can...probably trust him haha, that Donsley fella also seems to be important, after all he's the CEO of pizza butt...

The driving mechanic was just the right amount of perfect (very similar to Mario Kart) meaning that it's not very difficult to control it, but not very easy either, so perfect. Also the floating images from the levels are an awesome detail that reminds me of the rainbow road in Mario Kart 64 :'') really great. And also the hover mode is very satisfying, it's like waiting just the right oportunity to use it without falling.

I never got to beat the hard mode rivals, I have no idea of how you managed to create such a skilled AI... but I almost did beat the hard mode once, racing as Josh :)

Definitely one of my favourite games from this jam, you did an amazing job, be proud of it!  :)))

5/5 on every aspect

Great game I love racing in me car

Haha great job, love the snes kart racer feel. Chernglin ftw!

some fun driving here!