CHAIR Champions 0.3.3.1 - Easter Edition 🐰

C.H.A.I.R. Champions 0.3.3.1 - Easter Edition 🐰 

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NEW UPDATE HAS ARRIVED WITH A NEW SECRET CHARACTER, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SUPPORT & MORE! 😏

CHECK OUT THE CHANGELOG BELOW! 

HAPPY EASTER! 🏁🐰🪑💨

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Controls:

PLAYER 1:

move: arrows/controller d-pad/left analog stick

Sit/stand: Enter/controller A button

Player 2:

move: W-A-S-D (Z-Q-S-D for French language)/controller d-pad/left analog stick

sit/stand: E/Space/controller A button

Choose one of 18 different characters (5 secret characters), buckle up on one of 6 different desk chairs (1 secret chair 😉) and race over 1 to 10 rounds against the time or against AI opponents, alone or against a friend (2-player-split-screen!) across 5 different tracks!

Trick or Treat game mode (1 or 2 players!):

Find and collect as many sweets as you can in 45 seconds - but beware of the ghosts that will haunt you! 👻🍭🍬

(Only available while Halloween season is active - can be set up in Options)

Egghunt game mode (1 or 2 players)!

Find and collect as many eggs as you can in 45 seconds! (Only available while Easter season is active - can be set up in Options)

XMas present madness game mode (1 or 2 players)!

Collect as many presents as you can find in 1 minute in a house full of presents! 🎁🎁🎁

(Only available while XMas season is active - can be set up in Options)

POWER UPS!

Turbo Sneakers will give you a 3s turbo boost:

Wheel Shield will protect your wheels from rugs and puddles for 3.5s:

Beat your own records but keep an eye on your depleting energy and collect energy drinks to refill it! ⚡

Meet the characters:

This game was originally a submission to the #WastedResources game jam and it's being updated with more features, tracks and game modes since then! 😉

Assets used:

- Omega Modern graphics pack by @finalbossblues

- Title track "Start Your Engine" by Dark Fantasy Studio

- Lizzy's Home Track "Black Hole" by Dark Fantasy Studio

- other Tracks "Rabbit Town", "Save the City", "Connected", "Go", "Pixel War 2", "Princess Quest", "Box Jump" & "Patron Goal Reward Loop Track 07" by @ben_burnes

- Xmas track "FeSTV FRLiX" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Only backgrounds are AI generated using the "Starlight XL" via Nightcafé! All other graphics are hand made!

Enjoy and leave a rating and comment below! 😉👍

Change log:

0.3.3.1:

- fixed a bug where 2 players could not continue to the track selection after they have chosen their character

0.3.3.0:

- new secret character "Flux Dabes" (from the Crashlands games 😉) added! Look for #chairracingsecrets on X, Bluesky or Threads to get the secret code 🙃

- player 2 can now only choose their character when player 1 is done to eliminate some confusion

- added a label above the character portraits to show which player is currently choosing their character

- replaced the old seasonal backgrounds with new ones in a comic style

- added seasonal music to Easter, Xmas and Swinger's Club

- changed Easter season time frame to March 15th - April 30th

- added Russian language support

- changed the positions of the select buttons for the chairs to be beside the chair instead of the name of the chair

- added a prompt before quitting

- the difficulty setting is now being saved when the game will be shut down

- minor bugfixes 

0.3.2.3a:

- fixed music not playing in title menu unless you're changing season to Halloween and back. 

- fixed TikTok link 

0.3.2.3:

- added a different title track for Halloween season to match the atmosphere

- fixed a bug on Anthony's Home track where the "position" label in a race would change to last in the last quarter when you were first - and showed "1/6" when you were last and the opponents didn't cross the start/finish line yet

- fixed a bug where two or more opponents would have the same chair colour

0.3.2.1:

- added Japanese translation 🎌

- replaced game font to support Japanese language

- improved UI & menus

- show intermediate time to first also when crossing the start/finish line

- minor bugfixes 

0.3.1.2:

- fixed  "Fullscreen settings won't be saved when returning to the title menu"

0.3.1.1:

- fixed a bug where you could choose the characters from page 1 when page 2 was being displayed after a secret character has been unlocked on the character selection screen

- fixed a bug where new records wouldn't be saved when there's an old save file from version 0.2.2.0 or <0.3.0.9

0.3.1.0:

- fixed a bug where the player would still have the negative effect of a carpet or a puddle applied, after he left the chair on the edge of a puddle/carpet and got back on the chair from outside

0.3.0.9:

- fixed "rounds wouldn't be counted for player 2 in 2-player-race-mode"

- fixed "finish screen shows 0 collected presents in 2-player-Xmas-present-madness mode"

- fixed "finish screen shows the race result page over the egg hunt mode, trick or treat mode and present madness mode for 2 players"

- fixed "return to title always resets fullscreen in HTML version"

- fixed "energy bar & no-energy-signal for single player shows up when in 2-player-race-mode, not showing player2's energy"

- more minor bugs fixed

0.3.0.7:

- The time froze in race mode when the player didn't finish first - this has been fixed now

- added "intermediate time difference to first" in race mode that shows up when the middle of the track has been reached or, when in lead, when the 2nd one reaches the middle

0.3.0.5:

- fixed confetti not being shown when the player set a new track record only

- moved the placement counter at the end of a race in Singleplayer further to the right so it's not intersecting with the shown times anymore

- added 'wrong direction' indicator to time attack game mode and unlocked it for the 2-player-modes 

0.3.0.2:

- fixed confetti in 2 player modes would appear on the left side of the screen for player 1 instead of the right side

- fixed broken menu navigation with gamepads/keyboard

0.3.0.0:

- added Race vs. AI mode for 1 and 2 players

- added "wrong direction" sign for Race vs. AI

- added a full screen button to title screen (also F12 and 0(zero))

- replaced the "Play" button in the title screen with a separate "Singleplayer" and a "Multiplayer" button

- tweaked chair behaviours 

- the pushing power of the different chairs is now being applied correctly

- fixed & adjusted AI behaviour 

- fixed naked Valeria on standard chair would wear a bunny costume instead of being naked

- added confetti explosions & sound to the finish screen for beating a record & finishing a race 1st, 2nd or 3rd 

- added "new record" indicator & a short sound to the finish screen

- fixed misaligned and capped texts in German & French translations

- added check for double characters, so there will always be only one of each character for the AI opponents 

- restarting a race will let you race against exactly the same AI opponents now, instead of getting random opponents every time

- replaced screenshots of the starting areas of a track with videos of a whole round in the track selection menu

- added the possibility to enter player names which will be saved and displayed with the records and shown after a race

- Player names are now written above the player characters before a race starts

- reduced respawn time for power ups to 2s

- reduced respawn time for energy drinks to 3s

- many minor bugfixes