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Sloth Rocket Grand Prix: a kart racer in one HTML file
The brief was a go-kart racer in a single HTML file, with five themes that have nothing to do with each other: Formula 1, rockets, pirates, libraries and sloths. I gave that to Claude on a Sunday morning and had a playable game before lunch.
What's in it
- Five courses. Pole Position Park, Launch Pad Loop, Cutthroat Cove, The Grand Stacks and Slowpoke Canopy.
- Five karts. A formula car, an astronaut on a rocket, a pirate galleon, a librarian's book cart and a sloth on a log. Each one handles differently.
- Up to four players on one screen, with computer rivals filling the rest of the grid.
- Three levels (Rookie, Pro and Legend) and a five-race Grand Prix with points.
- Items. Turbo, cannonball, book trap, heat shield and the sloth spell, which slows down everyone ahead of you.
How to play
Open the game in Chrome or Edge on a computer.
- Xbox controller: press A to join. RT or A accelerates, LT or B brakes, RB drifts, and LB or X uses an item.
- Keyboard: press W or the up arrow to join. Steer with WASD or the arrows, drift with Space or Shift, and use items with E or Enter.
- Wheel and pedals: press any button on the wheel to join. A short calibration walks through steering, gas and brake.
Hold drift through a corner and let go for a boost.
Where it falls short
- The graphics are simple blocks. There are no artist-made models.
- A wheel gets no force feedback, because browsers don't offer it.
- I haven't tried it on an Xbox console yet. It should run in the console's Edge browser, but that's a guess until I test it.
What I'd like to add
More courses, a time trial mode and River's ideas, once he has had a turn at it.