TypeKart - A terminal-based type racing game with arcade elements!
Game Title: TypeKart
Playable Link: https://github.com/tom-sitter/typekart
Platform: Windows and MacOS terminals
Description: This is a terminal-based type racer game with MarioKart "arcade" inspired power ups and attacks
Free to Play Status: Free
Involvement: I made this. Even though I'm a programmer by profession, this is outside my normal wheelhouse so want to disclose I got some heavy LLM support to realize the vision!
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Hello! I've been working on a terminal-based type racer game with MarioKart-esque item bonuses to make things more interesting. It supports single player (vs AIs) + LAN and online multiplayer. Type the fastest to win, type bonus words when you reach them for various boosts and attacks.
It's open source and totally free to play, online play is free and available as long as my cheap servers can stand up to traffic! I've mostly tested on Mac in my terminal, but I installed and ran it on a windows PC with good success
I'd consider this very early access because I'm still tweaking a lot of things, but I think it's in an ok state if anyone wants to try it out and give some feedback. I added some basic mod support to add your own word packs and tweak bonuses.
I'm very interested if you come up with better balancing here or have other fun ideas. I'm a bit light on user-friendly docs right now, but you can hit `?` in app to see what you can do.
You can find the README with install instructions, quick start instructions, and the source code at the link above.