Speedholes

Speedholes is a racing game in the 1990s retro-arcade parallax-style I grew up loving.

But, if you think about it, it's also about a reckless disregard for road safety. Clearly it's some sort of qualifier on a country road but any collisions with other drivers are simply shrugged off.

With decorative tunnels and one-to-five-lane highways, the game also begs the question, what were the traffic engineers thinking?

Winning

Each lap will grade you and the last lap will grade your whole race. You're basically aiming for "Perfect!" and "Race perfected!" on the last screen.

You can get "Perfect!" with one imperfect lap. However you can only get "Race perfected!" with three perfect laps - ones where you don't crash and stay on the road the vast majority of the time.

Controls

Play with WASD, arrow keys, on your smartphone or touch device or using an Xbox controller.

For Xbox use left trigger to brake and right trigger to accelerate.

Racing wheels

For racing wheels press the J key on your keyboard or the A button on your wheel upon launch to enter "Joystick mode". Most Chrome-based browsers will not recognise racing wheels and joysticks so you will need to download Firefox.

Despite its name most gamepads and joysticks do not require joystick mode—only racing wheels. This is because on a gamepad/joystick you can easily move the stick to ±1 but on a racing wheel that's really hard.

Credits and notes

Speedholes is not entirely my game—it's a mod of Skaruts's P3D Racing, which in turn, is based off gilles's racing demo. It's my first using microStudio and its Lua-like programming language. It's also a non-qualifying submission for Trijam #264 "full speed ahead" - non-qualifying because I don't think mods are allowed. But it is good to do a game in half-a-weekend!

The game adds music by Of Far Different Nature available here. The mod essentially adds the gaming elements, sounds and timing, where as previously it was more a silent track demo with collisions. More details on the changes are available here and the full source code is downloadable below.