GRITS Racing Features

Realistic 2D car physics:

• Proprietary physics code
• 2D cars that actually steer via the wheels!
  • Nearly all other games in this category just pivot their cars on center.  We don't.  You may not see a difference, but take a car for a spin and you will feel it.  Quite possibly more realistic than a multiplayer couch game needs to be.
• Car body and wheels modeled as individual physics objects
• 4-wheel drive (AWD actually)
• 4-wheel steering (rear steering tapers off at speed)
• 4-speed transmission (plus reverse) with a torque curve
• 430 ft-lbs (582 N-m) of engine torque
  • 4-cylinder Onnenberg 250 engine producing around 500 hp. Inline slant (or, “half-V” or “/4”). Basically, half a V8 with one side of the V removed. This configuration lowers the profile a bit but was primarily designed for weight balance in a wider engine bay that needs to share space with an AWD transfer case and driveshaft (underneath the slant). This also provides additional room for the headers inside the body.
• Hand brake on the rear wheels
• Breakable wheel fasteners!
  • What is it like to drive on 3 wheels and 1 stub axle?  How about 1 wheel and 3 stub axles?

Smashing 2D barrier physics:

• Several barrier types with various friction coefficients and bounciness
• Some barriers are nailed down with breakable nails
• Some barriers are not nailed down at all
• Barriers take damage and show it

Gripping 2D surface physics:

• Several surface types with various traction and drag coefficients
• Dry, wet, and oily variants
• Oil slicks
  • Slicks appear organically during the race when and where cars break apart
  • Slicks don't artificially wipe you out but only make whichever tires touch it slick
    • If you can't handle a car with oil on some of the tires, that's your problem
  • Oil slickness on tires tapers off over distance
• Skids and other tire marks vary in width by direction and vary in color by surface

Tabletop mode 😲:

• Because games are more fun around a table (or on the floor)

Mayhem Model 1-A:

• Pancake batter!*
• Pit stops to apply more pancake batter and replace missing wheels
• Drivers can fall out of cars in collisions
• Cars can be broken apart after all wheels are lost
• 4 cars per race (run to your trucks to launch your next car)
• Tesla Shields™
  • Force field that protects drivers from cars while on foot
  • This can be very bad for naughty drivers
• Le Mans starts
  • Seen any other games with this?
• Not all barriers are nailed down! (oh, yeah, we said that already)
• Up to 8 players on one screen
• Bubba Prizes!
• Save and share game photos showing off the mess ya'll made of the track

Mayhem Model 1-B:

• 5 oddball A.I. personalities for 4 A.I. cars (from speed racer to student driver; one car sets its personality based on number of players)
• Most A.I. features are now done but A.I. tuning will continue
• Outdated devlog: A.I. Cars Unleashed!

Mayhem Model 2:

• Playground rules!  Wacky Wodifiers that ask “lucky losers” to change up the rules between tracks:
  • Greased car seats
  • Far-out fat tires
  • Tractor wheels
  • Dualies
  • Area 51 Tesla Shields
  • Reverse-polarity Tesla Shields
  • Disposable cars
  • Dragster chutes
  • Jousting lances
  • Speed limit for pros
  • Bring it on (Racing A.I.)
  • and more to come
• Leader Lamifiers that force “on-fire” players to add a rule to make things more difficult for the race leader:
  • Greasier car seat
  • Leader trikes
  • King of the hill
  • Finish-line showboating required
  • and more to come
• Outdated devlog: Announcing the Beginnings of Mayhem Model 2!

Prison Dodgecar minigame:

• Tesla Shields™ installed on the car instead of the driver
• Like bumper cars meets billiards

Hockey minigame (Sansstíkdisco in some countries):

• Tesla Magnets™ for run-n-gun puck control