cuadue / touchmoto

A simple motorcycle-racing game for touch-screen devices

Touch Screen Motorcyles

You are the perfect motorcyclist. You are a computer. You can calculate exactly what fraction of your traction you can apply to turning and accelerating. You always travel at top speed, and never bail. You are awesome.

You drive in a parking lot. It sounds stupid but it's really kind of neat.

Install

You need PyGame and that's it!

If you're a masochist and you want to run it on Android:

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3. TODO: Instructions other than "figure it out yourself"

How to Play

Tap/Click on the map to set your target. Your perfect racing skills will propel you directly through that point as fast as possible. This is analagous to "You go where you look." If you ride a bike, you know what I mean.

Sometimes, you have to slow down because that turn is just too damn tight. This makes you overshoot and turn late. You have a circle of your path of travel, and you can move your target around to get the curve you want.

If you don't see a turning circle, you aren't turning.

You can't turn more than 180 degrees at a time because that just doesn't make sense. Sorry, no donuts.

Versions

There is an Android version and a PyGame version. Android is clunky, but it works. The pygame version is fun to hack on. Good for prototyping.