Lab Mice Rally

Welcome to Lab Mice Rally! Race around top-down tracks using only the mouse pointer. Can you win every race and escape the lab?

Play Time: Approx 15-25 mins

I strongly recommend playing fullscreen to avoid nasty dithering artifacts. Created and tested on a 1080p display only. So hopefully other resolutions look ok 🙂

Made for VimJam5. All Art, Music and Code made by me (Mr_Afroduck) during the jam. 

DISCLAIMER: I unfortunately was unable to fully finish this game, but it still felt fun so have uploaded what I managed to complete. This is why stages vary between 3D renders and flat ugly blockouts, and the escape finale is cut very short. Hope some of you find some enjoyment in it anyway! I'll be happy to polish up what I didn't finish if anybody requests it :)

I also had to disable data save/load as it caused issues I didnt quite get time to debug. There is a cheat button on course select to unlock all stages if you are a returning player.

The course times are also unimplemented. Let me know if anyone would enjoy rerunning stages, or speedrunning the game and I'll get that stuff fixed post-jam

Theme: ESCAPE

The story of the game is that you are a lab mouse being trained in experiments and raced against other mice in ever more perilous courses. Your goal is to complete them all and escape unscathed!

Spoiler: The final stage is an escape sequence where you break your way through all previous rooms connected as a maze. Unfortunately this stage was cut short, but is still present in the game in a reduced capacity in order to fullfil the theme requirement.

Diversifiers: 

4 Color Palette: #1a1628, #e9f0f6, #93a5b0, #e8ed8b
The whole game was made with these 4 colors, using a vairety of rendering and dithering techniques. Unfortunately there is some placeholder stage art, so you might see the odd cyan pixel poking out here or there. These would have been replaced by final 3D renders and I did my best to cover them all up, but I didn't get to all of them.

Animal Characters: All characters in the game are little lab mice. They are a hybrid between animal mice and mouse pointers (as per the Mouse Only diversifier). But they have cute little eyes, so I think count as animals haha.

I had intended to add unlockable customization options and animations to make them feel more alive, but static sprites is all we've got for now.

Mouse Only: The whole game can be controlled with just a mouse. Move the mouse to move, left click to brake, and right click to pause.
For accesibility/convenience - you can also use Tab or P to pause, and F11 to toggle fullscreen, but these aren't needed.

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Extras: (Stuff that didn't make it in on time but some people might want to see)