GoKart 0.0.2

🚀 Version 0.0.2

GoKart gets its Mario Kart 64 makeover: Battle mode, Time Trials, a four-course cup, Lakitu, course hazards, a full MK64-style menu and HUD, course music — and the walls finally back off the pavement.

📦 Downloads

• 🍎 macOS (universal, Apple Silicon + Intel): GoKart-0.0.2-macos-universal.zip — Developer ID signed, notarized and stapled
• 🪟 Windows (x86_64): GoKart-0.0.2-windows-x86_64.zip — single GoKart.exe with embedded data
• 🐧 Linux (x86_64): GoKart-0.0.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz — single GoKart.x86_64 with embedded data
• 🐧 Linux (arm64): GoKart-0.0.2-linux-arm64.tar.gz — single GoKart.arm64 with embedded data
• SHA256SUMS.txt for all four

🏁 Game modes

• Battle mode: four karts, three balloons each, in Big Donut, Block Fort or Skyscraper — item hits, lava, the roof edge, star touches and heavy shoves pop balloons
• Time Trials: solo 3-lap run at 100cc with a triple mushroom; five best times and best lap saved per track, the fastest run replays as a ghost
• Grand Prix cup with MK64 points (9/6/3/1), cup standings and a trophy; finishing 5th or worse ranks you out and the race is rerun (RETRY)
• Four-course cup: new fourth track Dusty Canyon (desert sweepers, a hairpin, a left-hand S, two oasis water stretches)
• Engine classes 50cc / 100cc / 150cc and the Extra class (mirror mode: every course flipped left-to-right)
• Weight classes Light / Medium / Heavy — acceleration, top speed, body size and who gets thrown in a bump
• 8-racer field on a two-column grid; AI rubber-banding per difficulty

🏎️ Driving

• MK64 powerslide: hop into the slide, charge the mini-turbo by toggling the stick — white, yellow, red smoke; release on red for the boost
• Slipstream (drafting) behind another kart
• False start: holding the throttle through GO stalls the kart with spinning wheels and tire smoke
• Jump ramp on Dusty Canyon (Wario Stadium / Royal Raceway style) — karts fly off and land on the road
• Sherbet Land style ice on Frosty Peaks

🎁 Items

• Triple mushrooms and golden mushroom; fake item box and banana bunch; Boo (ghost + item steal)
• Triple red shells orbiting the kart, fired one by one and shielding it meanwhile
• Shell blocking: a dangling banana / box / shell stops incoming green and red shells
• "The other way" item use (Q / Backspace): backward shells, forward banana toss, with a toss-owner grace period

🛣️ Courses & hazards

• Lakitu: start signal, lap signs, flashing REVERSE sign and the checkered flag
• Kalimari Desert style train on Dusty Canyon with level crossings and crossbuck signals
• Toad's Turnpike traffic on Sunset Speedway: cars, buses, box trucks and tankers with headlights
• Moo Moo Farm Monty Moles on Green Hills; Frappe Snowland snowmen on Frosty Peaks
• Roadside scenery per course theme: trees, cows and barns, firs, cacti, buildings
• Walls moved out to a run-off strip ~2.3 m (7-8 ft) off the pavement; wall tops now lit like the sides (no more dark tops)
• Per-course chiptune music loops; title and select-screen tunes, cursor ticks and confirm chime

🖥️ Menus & HUD

• MK64-style title screen: arched GOKART logo with a soft blurred shadow flying in over a live attract demo; Enter (only) leaves the title
• Select screen: course list with map pictures, live course picture window, option pills (laps / CPU / engine / kart / mode), pulsing gold cursor, turning kart portrait, arena demo in Battle mode, title demo tour
• Course intro fly-over before the countdown; pause screen (Esc): CONTINUE / RETRY / COURSE CHANGE / QUIT
• MK64-style race HUD (rounded font, gold / cream palette, navy panels): item window with drawn icons, one-colour course map, results board with rows sliding in
• 3D sign text and banners drop the thick black outlines; Battle results board no longer has BATTLE OVER drawn over the standings