Yeah, the car has too few sprites. I tested it with a line drawn out of the front of the car, but it looked weird and did not fit the art style I was going for.
Thank you! I had to leave out some details I had planned, like an actual podium and finer graphics for the crowd and track. I am also not quite happy with the look of the barriers, but I ran out of space on the spritesheet. But I agree, some more graphics for the car would have been nice, I even have another four sprites reserved for the car but I could not get the rotation down. The code that selects the right sprite is basically just an array.
The track is inspired by the Nürburgring and it should not be too difficult to build others. I will release the entire source on GitHub after the jam, so you are welcome to check it out and experiment a bit.
yeah, when you press play, the UI just moves off-screen but the button is still selected. I am honestly quite surprised the game just keeps running when you do that. Also: When the player finishes the race, the driver is replaced with an AI. The AI just follows a path and keeps moving along that path, so finishing while driving backwards will have red driving in the wrong direction
Just a hint for using with Godot: The characters may all be 5px tall, but the entire font is 7px tall, so you will have to set the font size to 7 to get pixel perfect letters
