Tiny Tracks. Fast Laps
Driftmania is an arcade time trial racing game. Your goal is to get the fastest possible time on each of the 15 challenging tracks
Controls
- Up Arrow or Z: Accelerate
- Down Arrow: Brake + Reverse
- Left Arrow: Turn left
- Right Arrow: Turn right
- X: D-Brake
- R: Restart level
- P: Pause game + Options menu
Tips
- You turn faster when holding the D-Brake
- Take a good look at the minimap before starting a track. You need to anticipate the turns to get the best times
- Grass does not slow you down. It reduces traction, which you can use to your advantage for drifting!
- Driving over yellow tiles will activate boost. Boost works with whatever direction you're facing - it doesn't matter where the arrow on the ground is pointing
- Garage customizations do not change car handling. Make your car look however you want it to!
- An optional ghost can be enabled in the pause menu. Replays are lost when exiting a track
Changelog
1.0.1
- Reduced medal difficulty across most tracks
- Reduced medal requirements for unlocking new tracks
- Ghost now defaults to ON
1.1.0
- Revised D4: optional first jump pad, bigger second jump pad
- Arrow keys can now be used to change track selection and garage customization
- Additional medal tuning
Credits
- Created by Max Bize
- Music by Vav
- Cars (based on) art by PixelArtM
- Cover art by TerracotaScarf
Special Thanks to Community Members
- @thisismypassword for shrinko8. This game would not have been possible without it!
- @TheRoboZ for pd_rotate(). Very useful to get rotations in so few tokens!
- @johanp for VFX inspiration. The sprite stacking used here started by modifying your demo cart on the subject!
You can follow more of my game development on Twitter
Curious to look at the un-minified source? It's over here
Interested in competing for the best possible times? Join the speedrun Discord and submit your times on speedrun.com/driftmania
Need some more help? Watch the Gold Medal Guide
Amazing, great use of sprite stacking for pseudo 3D and well polished.
It's a good challenge to get the higher level medals. So far I've just done the A levels and got silver medals on them.
I love all the level mechanics which also all also super polished.
I can see myself playing this for quite a while into the future.
Turning and drifting feels great. I appreciate how driving on grass only affects traction, and in some levels it adds to the joy of cutting corners. Track variety is fun, and there are a lot of tracks!
The gold medal times are tight! One has to execute really well to earn them, but with tracks around 40 seconds each, the challenge isn't too strenuous for those with the drive for perfection. The ghost feature has been useful to see where the time gains are available and whether my current pace is acceptable. I've only gotten a handful of gold medals so far, and there is a lot of gameplay here for those looking to optimize.
My only incredibly minor feedback is the "select track" menu is a little clunky to navigate in my opinion. I think pressing the up/down buttons to change tracks, rather than pressing the action buttons on the track's name, might be more intuitive. I don't think you need to fix this menu by any means, but I wanted to mention it since it tripped me up a few times.
So much fun, incredibly polished and comfortable to handle. Nice work!
Thanks everyone for the great feedback! I'm glad so many people are enjoying it :D
V 1.1.0 addresses the two most common complaints: slightly better menu navigation and a more fair level D4. I've also published a video showing how to get a gold medal on every track. Enjoy!
For anyone who wants to compete on leaderboards, I've finally got driftmania uploaded to speedrun.com! You can submit your runs over here:
https://www.speedrun.com/Driftmania
What a great game. It absolutely nails that sweet spot of "just one more go" to beat my previous best and gain the next medal.
The car handles well and is really satisfying to control. Any mistakes feel like my own fault rather than the game being unfair. I won't say how many medals I have managed as it's not very many...
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