Speed in Vitamen is a matter of staying on the beat

Darwin Modestly is building an audio-paced racing game

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A colorful cartoon robot with a fruit-like head racing along a rainbow track through space
Vitamen's fruit-robot racer. Image: Darwin Modestly.

The racer is a little fruit robot, the track is a rainbow ribbon through space, and the throttle is the beat. In Vitamen, the audio-paced racing game Darwin Modestly is building in the open, speed is tied to staying on rhythm, and a recent devlog entry added beat bonuses: land your inputs on the pulse and the game pays you in momentum.

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Day 9 of the Vitamen devlog: beat bonuses. Video: Darwin Modestly.

Modestly bills himself as an artist, musician and educator, and Vitamen reads like all three at once. The look, somewhere between Mega Man boss art and a fruit stand, commits fully to fever dream.

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