Echo Rider

DRIFT DOESNT WORK  ON WEBGL WITH CONTROLLER ON FIREFOX!

Echo Rider

You are a lone rider on a race track, for now. Cross the finish line, and face your echoes. Don't run out of fuel, or else you explode. Avoid your ghosts as they will siphon your fuel when nearby and can pickup fuel ahead of you. Use the powerups on the track to stun them.

This was a submission for GMTK 2025, and was made in just 4 days. None of us have made a racing game before, so it was a fun learning process. Expect physics bugs.

The theme for the jam was "Loop". Our interpretation of it was: You do laps in a loop on a circuit, and you have to race against your time-looping ghosts!

Controls

	Keyboard	Gamepad
Steering	A / D	Left Joystick
Boost	Space	Right Face Button
Drift	Shift	Right Bumper
Use Item	F	Left Bumper
Brake	S	Left Face Button

Music

Music by vivi mouse available here: https://vivimouse.bandcamp.com/album/echo-rider

Powerups

Pick these up from the yellow canisters! Echoes can't grab them, so don't be afraid to drive through them!

Icon	Name	Description
	Missile	Homes in and stuns the nearest echo in front of you for one second. If no one is directly ahead, it aims at no one.
	SatStrike	Stuns every echo on the track for one second.
	Shield	Prevents your fuel from decreasing. Also grants infinite boost while active. * There is a bug where it will not protect you from fuel drain from being too close to your echoes. Watch out!
	Sword	Swings four swords around you for one second to stun any echoes that are too close.
	Magnet	Grabs red fuel canisters from further away. Use this to strategize where your echoes will be! * There is a bug where fuel picked up using a magnet does not activate any VFX. You're still getting the fuel, even if the VFX doesn't trigger.