Experience the pure grit of the powerful Group B rally cars as you snake your way through ten treacherous stages at the Autumn Rally Classic! Part of the Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2024

Balance focus, speed, car damage and tire health as you speed through fast flowing corners, tight hairpins, and perilous jumps.

Group B is a card game set in the world of rally racing; when you start you have four cards in your hand on the bottom left, and can select between them using the up and down keys or left mouse button; Press RET or right click or (A) if you have a gamepad to play a card. On the top you'll see your core statistics and underneath that your progress through the stage, and each page of your co-driver's pace notes.

Rules, in brief:

  • Flooring it on the straight zones will raise your speed up to that zone's value.
  • Turns must be completed at a speed less than or equal to the zone's value or you will take damage.
  • You can play a corner-cut card to gain a huge advantage on corners marked with the corner-cut badge at the risk of crashing out hard. Go big, or go home? You can play them when you are going slow enough to progress through a corner as a discard.
  • Taking dangerous jumps at speed risks damage to suspension.
  • Use your co-driver's pace notes to plan ahead and make sure you brake early, maximize speed, and effectively use your resources.
  • If you want to get to the end of the rally be sure to carefully consider how you spend your time in service park.
  • Getting locked in throws you in to a fugue state; you'll find yourself past the current stage note going the speed of the next stage note, but you might have damaged the car getting there! Good luck utilizing this well.
  • The more speed you have, the higher your score, but if you're going too fast you'll wreck out in no time! Remember what they say about effective cornering: slow to enter, fast to exit!
View the code and play it online on my website. This game was developed in 10 days using TIC-80 on the Planet Computer Cosmo Communicator, a neat little android device I wish I could recommend to you. It was nice to write this game on the couch, on the bus, and in the forests of Lane County, OR , in five or fifty minute intervals throughout the week and change. The last step of the development of the prototype was to turn it in to a Literate Programming document which has the compiled object embedded above the source code which produces it.

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arc.dist.zip 1.8 MB

Install instructions

it's a tic80 cartridge. play it in your browser on a real computer if you have issues or download tic80 from google play or fdroid.

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