Hot Throttle

By: Lorne Whiting

On: February 18th, 2011

A little late, but cactus recently released a new game through Adult Swim’s Flash portal [With the help of Mark Johns, aka Doomlaser. -Ed.]. Hot Throttle is a surreal racing game where you unleash your carsona, racing against fellow nude carsonas while avoiding garbage cans, hobos, and robots. The graphics are all simple and pastel, lending the game a simultaneously cute and unsettling look, with the numerous cutscenes definitely contributing to the ‘creepy’ aspect of the races.

In other cactus-related news: he posted a teaser image for a new Mondo game on his blog. Alas, one of the only series of games that actually uses the 3D part of Game Maker.

Posted in Action, Browser Games, Racing, Unique / Bizarre | Tags: cactus

http://twitter.com/DorkbotGames John Sandoval

The humor in this game is top-notch; the gameplay, less so. It's much too easy to get mixed up in a race, and taking wrong turns is almost guaranteed the first time through a race. But if cactus had fixed that, I would definitely have played past the third level.
Valzi

I'm confused about everyone referring to the racers as nude. Several articles have done so, but they're actually wearing underwear, which is equal to a swimsuit. Either way, it's not very nude at all. Anyway, agree with Sandoval.
Phubans

“Another Cactus related news”?? Shouldn't it be “In other Cactus related news”??
http://www.derekyu.com Derek Yu

Fixed.
kYn

I think this game hates me.

Oh, and this isn't just a cactus game, you should probably credit doomlaser as well.
Phubans

Thanks. I noticed you also cleaned up some other stuff like adjectives that could have come off as a little biased and invited some negativity.
Priofaz

the guys with the hat remind me of the precision guy
allen

the beach level is pretty confusing, but once you play it at least one time it's a lot easier the second time around.
Lugburz

I cannot stand this Cactus guy or any of the games he's made. Everything about him annoys me.
http://twitter.com/DorkbotGames John Sandoval

Speaking in those sorts of absolutes is pretty silly, especially if you've never met the guy in person.
Lugburz

I don't need to meet the guy in person to know that this and everything else he does is gay-ass hipster garbage.
http://twitter.com/DorkbotGames John Sandoval

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Asd

the good thing about cactus is that he just makes shit he thinks is cool. it doesn't even matter because there's so much of it.
lugburz

There's something about what he does, and about a lot of indie games, that annoys me to a huge extent. “clean asia” is in a genre I typically like, but the boss battling stuff isn't my thing, I prefer more normal arena shooters.
Spankie

Whatever happened to Brain Damaged Toon Underworld or whatever it was called? I really wanted to play that…
-LG

“There's something about what he does, and about a lot of indie games, that annoys me to a huge extent.” – Why are you here, then? Cactus was one of the earlier game designers to be posted on this site, and TIGSource covers a lot of games that are weird or “artsy.” Moreover, why do you feel the need to discredit an aesthetic you don't enjoy for no reason other than self-gratification?
lugburz

“Why are you here, then?”

Well, you're right, because Cactus is the only thing here. Oh, wait, he isn't.

But there is indeed a lot of navelgazing garbage here by and for artfags. My guess is you're one of them.
Doesnot

Haha good kneejerking and generalizing you have there.

Anyway, I was always wondering who exactly are “artfags”? If pressed I'd classify TIG guys as blue collar fun-loving manhugging site, with as much interest in art as any curious and somewhat creative guy next door… How does one become “artfag”?