ICE RINK RALLY by japes

You know what it's like: You head out with your buddies for a fun night out at the local ice rink, but there are so many slow, clumsy people on the ice that they get in the way of your races!
The more you have - the worse it is!
FEATURES: * 1-4 player local multiplayer:

- Solo time-trial mode with online high score board:

- skaters randomly flying off into space
Controls - WASD to move your dude around the ice as quickly as possible.
Made with Unity 5 and GIMP.
----update 5/12----
Updated with minor lap-counting bugfix - sometimes it would skip laps resulting in crazy low times on the leaderboard.
----update 7/12----
I've started working on a post-compo version and will be working on it over the next few weeks. Check it out if you enjoyed the game!
| HTML5 (web) | https://japes.itch.io/icerinkrally |
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/ejthbdg5t7pftp8/desktop.7z?dl=0 |
| HTML5 (web) | https://Japes55@bitbucket.org/Japes55/ld40.git |
| HTML5 (web) | https://japes.itch.io/icerinkrally2 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/ice-rink-rally |
Ratings
| Overall | 385th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 272th | 3.432⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 430th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 495th | 3.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 592th | 2.523⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 391th | 2.475⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 584th | 2.375⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
I need to buy some friends for multiplayer though.
✱ Fun racing game
✱ Take on the theme
✱ Played with a friend!
✱ Controls feeling
✱ Online leaderboard when playing solo
:muscle: **What imo could be improved:**
✱ Graphics are readable but not really pretty
✱ Gamepad support
✱ gameplay elements to reduce the skill gap problem between players of differents skills, to make it chanllenging for everyone
✱ Well that's pretty much all, I don't expect more from a jam game so it's good already. Not sure how that game could grow, maybe an AI competitor with a tournament would hook the player to play more and find "strategies" to handle the crowd and defeat competitor ?
:sparkles: **Overall**
✱ Had a lot of fun! I think it would get repetitive quickly but I did enjoy the game you have there. Thanks for the game!
I had just one small problem whith the web browser version: when I restart, sometimes the controls don't work,so had to refresh the page.
The graphics were really simple (obviously), but you made sure everything was clear - what direction the character was facing, where the safe spots on the rink were, etc... It's really easy to overlook giving the player visual cues like that, but they go a long way in helping things feel understandable and enjoyable. Keep up the good work.
Other things is done well. Good mechnics, everything is clear.
If you got your time to 30 seconds you would've been top! current 1st is 31.99s