Cursor Drifter
Description
Cursor Drifter is a casual racing game where a car follows your cursor. Compete in a time trial format, earning gold stars for beating target times, to unlock cool new cars!
Controls
Control the car by moving your mouse cursor — the car will always follow it. But don't let this simplicity fool you! The car drifts, so you’ll need skill and precision to dominate the track.
When playing from a smartphone, tap anywhere on the screen and drag in the direction you want the car to move.
Credits
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Development log
- Cursor Drifter Update 1.2.0.0Jan 28, 2025
Comments
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I come from trackmania, where skill is the only factor influencing your time. Now for my criticism:
- I don't like coins reducing time and cones increasing time. It means I can't see if a certain route is faster just by looking at my ghost, but I actually need to try every route to find the fastest one.
- I don't like that you need to play with certain cars to get all platinum stars. I thought the cars are cosmetic, and different cars (where you get to choose the type of car) bugs me. I like having the ability to play at the highest level (ability as in not being limited by the game) from the get-go, which is not the case here. It would also be nice to get the stats (length, width, top speed, acceleration, turning stats) for all the cars in game so I have an idea for which is faster/slower. I got all platinum stars with the regular red car except for levels 1 & 9, where I used the luxury car.
- That one maze level, but it's not too bad. Platinum is pretty easy with a little bit of routefinding.
Praise:
- Excellent car controls. I really enjoyed it.
- Nice, easy to use, intuitive menus.
- I like the pb system, and ghosts.
Suggestions:
- Shift the ghost forward and backward in time with how many coins it and the current attempt get, to visually see the time difference.
- Show the stats for cars in game.
- Level editor.
Let me know if you'd like me to set harder-than platinum times. I think I'm faster than you are, based on the current difficulty of them. I'd just want to know the optimal routes and cars to use before I start.
Btw I played on the browser version on pc. A save file system would be nice too.
What an awesome game ^^ took me a bit but just got 4 stars on all levels, 39 threw me for a loop and a half
Love it! Needs a touch of variety in colors and background and you can ship it! I do believe, after some work it would make a really good game for a Nintendo Switch as well. Feel free to contact me for porting and publishing. In the meantime, here’s my feedback:
Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it!
The video gives me many feedback about the design cons and pros. And it was just interesting watching you play :)
Oh yeah this is fun as hell, I love minimalistic games and I think you did a great job making levels and your refinement on the drifting itself.
For an improvement, I'd like to see how each Coin/Cone impacted your final time.
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you had fun :)
Also , thank you for the feedback! It's a nice suggestion, I'll think about implementation.
Hey, really really cool! I loved the responsiveness and the overall vibe of the game!
Are you still working on it?
Thanks! I don't have any plans for updates just yet.
I tried to publish on Poki and CrazyGames, but they rejected. I don't know why, I didn't get proper feedback. So, I decided to release the game here and I'm happy with it :)
Great game, I thought it was pretty easy at first but the difficulty ramped up nicely as you go through the levels.
The main gameplay mechanic is very smooth and the drifting feels very satisfying. I thought that the ghost car was a nice touch too.
If I may give some criticism, I personally find the car noise a bit annoying after some time. I don't know if it would be possible to make it easier on the ear but that's just a minor inconvenience anyway.
Now back to getting 3 stars on all levels !
Huge thanks for your feedback, I appreciate it!
I tried to add more variety to the cars sounds, but faced with technical issues. Godot has bugs related to sound on the HTML5 builds, or I haven't figured out enough about how to work with it. So, I tried my best within those limitations.
I'm going to make Windows and Android builds. It should has better sound.
what time I need to have the secret star on lvl 37?(I have 19:62)
(I like the game, relaxing and easy)
I DID IT I BEAT ALL LVLS ON DIMOND, YEAH
Love this game. Big thx to developer
Congrats! Really happy that you enjoyed it =)
If you have wishes for the game, feel free to suggest. Also, it would be great to hear what thing you like and dislike the most in the game.
For a first project, this is very polished!
Had fun playing it and gotten 3 stars on all level. ( Got 4 for a few of them too )
Thanks! I'm glad you got some fun, that means a lot to me :)
This game is very simple but so much fun. Very polished as well. You mind exporting it as an .apk or .exe?
Thank you! I'll try to make export on Win and Android within a week.
Hi! I added apk and exe builds. If you have any troubles with, please let me know.
Nice, thank you :)
Really fun for a first project!!!
cool game
this is a fun game whatever those blue star times are can die though i am not figuring out how to make a completely straight line go faster
Thank you for feedback and playing! Really appreciate it :)
Straight levels are tricky. You need to use a specific car, to achieve platinum star :)
well i ate my words and proceeded to platinum every level, you have won addictive gameplay loop
It's impressive :D
Thank you for playing <3