Grits Racing

Grits Racing is a 2D party racing game for up to eight players, with car-simulator physics and cartoon-style destruction. You race, crash and make a mess of the track, or take part in other activities around the cars. Between races, players can add rules that change how the next round plays.

Cars and collisions

Cars steer through their wheels, with their bodies and wheels modeled as separate physics objects. They have all-wheel drive, rear steering that tapers off at speed, a four-speed transmission plus reverse, a rear-wheel hand brake and breakable wheel fasteners. Cars can lose wheels, break apart and leave drivers on foot after collisions; drivers can also fall out of their cars.

Barriers have different friction and bounce properties, take damage and show it, and may be nailed down with breakable nails or left loose. Track surfaces vary in traction and drag, with dry, wet and oily versions. Oil slicks form where cars break apart, affecting only the tires that touch them; oil wears off those tires over distance. Skid marks vary in width and color according to direction and surface.

Races and mayhem

Races feature Le Mans starts, Tesla Shields that protect drivers from cars while they are on foot, and pancake batter used during pit stops to replace missing wheels. Each race gives you three replacement cars, which you launch by running to your trucks. The game also includes Bubba Prizes and lets you save and share photos of the track after a race.

Four AI cars draw on five oddball personalities, ranging from speed racer to student driver. One car chooses its personality based on the number of players.

Changing the rules

Wacky Wodifiers periodically ask “lucky losers” to change the rules. Options include greased car seats, far-out fat tires, tractor wheels, dualies, Area 51 Tesla Shields, reverse-polarity Tesla Shields, disposable cars, dragster chutes, a speed limit for pros and racing AI.

Leader Lamifiers give “on-fire” players a rule to make things harder for the race leader. Options include greasier car seats, leader trikes, King of the Hill and a requirement to showboat at the finish line.

Other ways to play

Tabletop mode is designed for playing around a table or on the floor. Prison Dodgecar, a minigame for six to eight players, puts Tesla Shields on the cars rather than the drivers and plays like bumper cars mixed with billiards. In the hockey minigame, called Sansstíkdisco in some countries, Tesla Magnets help players control the puck while running and shooting.

Globetrotter Racing

The game takes place in the petrolpunk world of Globetrotter Racing, where it is 1975, the Great War was the only world war, and microelectronics do not exist. Nikola Tesla and his research institute harnessed lightning and invented the Tesla Shield for automotive safety and pedestrian protection. The sport began as Wiggle Wheel Wacing in the Southern United States before billionaire Billy Bub Worcestershire bought its rights and turned it into Globetrotter Racing. After the Tesla Institute developed personal plasma energy shields, Worcestershire added them to the sport, creating the GRITS variant. Its official snack is bangers and grits.