Brutal Pico Race is a fast and raw futurist racing game on Pico8 by yourykiki (The lurking engine)

  Choose one ship out of three class, choose a track and try to finish first ! You can also challenge a friend, alone or with AI, in split-screen mode !

  Brutal Pico Race features : Single player or two players in splitscreen

  3 class of ships -heavy -normal -light with different speed curve6 tracks3 AI levels or free ride

  

Controls - keyboard or gamepad :

Menu Use arrows to choose your ship / track / AI level

  Z/C/N to start

  When 2 players is selected, the second player can choose his own ship directly with S/F

  Game Player 1 steering : arrow LEFT, arrow RIGHTaccelerate Z/C/N, break V/X/Mboost arrow UPPlayer 2 steering : S, Faccelerate TAB/Z, brake Qboost E After raceup/down the chase other ships HUD

  Tricks Be careful with boost activation, before entering a turn is not always a good ideaHealth affect how often boost can be activatedYou can gain some speed by using riding on the half pipe in the turnsCollision affect health and speed, so be careful you can't repair your ship in race and try not to touch other ship to maximize your speedYou can try a get a boost by staying one second behind on opponent Thanks Great thanks to the pico 8 community (Zep, @p01, @FSouchu, @Felice_Enellen, Morgan...), all the followers who help me on the project ! And many thanks to my wife and children for the playtests and ships/tracks contribution !

  If you like this game, don't hesitate to support it ! This will help me doing more ;)

  Changelog

  1.0.4 : (with pico8 0.2.1)

  @fsouchu subpixel polygon fillingslightly better drawing distance in 2 players mode, 12 road blocks instead of 9 drafting, stay long enough behind an opponent and get a boostSatisfying HUD design : formatting lap time correctlyreduce health, boost and speed bar to center the pilot face :)

  1.0.3 :

  We can finally die !Fix live rankFix a bug where boost had not influence on centrifugal force, so now be carefull with boost spamming !Add chronometer and timeboard (best race time per track and per AI skill)Add 3 tracksAdd a 2 channels music for single player raceAdd controls helpsAdaptive difficulty on boost, AI use less often boost when you're last or 3rd Change ship names 1.0.2 :

  Increase difficulty 3 kinds of botsBetter end screen Changing camera after raceOther ship progress on leftCooldown for ships collision damageChanging track loader, room for 3 new tracksBetter boost visual fxFix boost sound fx in splitscreenChange morgan3d heapsort with triplefox's shellsort 1.0.1 :

  first publicChanged rasterizer for @p01 1.0 :

  Initial version

Development log

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