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A jam submission

Circus Circuit (Early Demo)View game page

A silly racing game with clowns!
Submitted by Christian Bennett — 24 days, 14 hours before the deadline
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Submitted(+1)

cool game and i liked the polished systems you put, the camera tour before race, podium after grand prix, race lap info, and the other pilots time after each race. The music fits the theme for me, and the change in the last lap is a nice feedback (i liked the change each lap in the map with day, night and afternoon transitions). This details add a lot for experience, congrats!

I could win just the last race, the first one was adaptation, but the second i dropped first position to last one in the last lap in a row of powers hit me, its normal in this kind of game i think but senses like i could do nothing for it and after each hit feels like i was send to behind my original position. This is more like a feeling than a fact, but when i am behind in the race feels like is already lost after certain distance to other racers, I do not feel the "rubber banding" in this game (that system which reward less the first pilots and reward more the last one to make than more close and keep the race competitive).

I played in browser, and in the first two maps it was more laggy, the night road was cleaner. 

Cool to see your test map is possible to play

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks! Even though the game is still pretty early in development, I tried to focus a lot on the game's presentation, like making sure the music, visuals, and overall style of the game worked well together. So I'm glad to hear that you liked it! 

I have noticed that it can sometimes be difficult to get ahead in a race if you get set back behind the other racers. Adding items helped with this issue somewhat, but it's still something that I'm hoping to improve to help make the races feel more fun and competitive for the player. I plan on tweaking the rubber banding and AI for the other CPU racers some more to hopefully help with this. 

I'm also currently working on trying to fix some of the lag in the browser version of the game.

I really appreciate the feedback, thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Thanks for adding the linux version

The visuals are really impressive, the art looks cohesive and well put together and the controls feel very smooth and enjoyable

As for the gameplay itself, I can't say too much since I don't really play racing games, but I did run into a bug, when hitting a ramp, the car can end up in a situation where it gets completely stuck. It would be great to have some way to reset the car's position when that happens

Developer(+1)

Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback!

This is my first time trying to make a game in 3D, so I'm hoping to improve upon the art, models, and animations some more in the future, but it's nice to know that the artstyle and visuals work well for the game so far!

The controls were something I had a difficult time getting to feel right, so I'm glad to hear that the game controls well!

The racers sometimes getting stuck from clipping into objects at high speeds was an issue I kept running into during testing. I thought I might've fixed it, but I've noticed that it still seems to happen from time to time. It should no longer be as big of an issue in the next update, as I made some tweaks to the collision detection to hopefully be a little more accurate, but I'm still not sure if it's entirely fixed yet. 

Sometimes doing a drift hop can get you unstuck, and you can also reset the race in the pause menu, but I'll definitely consider adding a way to reset the racer's position if it continues to be an issue.

Submitted(+1)

really good, i can't really play it because my computer is bad, but i can see its still really good!

Developer

Thanks! I was originally going to post a browser build of the demo as  well, but it unfortunately didn't run very well and had some other issues. I'm planning on trying to optimize the game some more in a few areas, so hopefully then it will run a little better on older/worse computers as well as in the browser.