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A tactical horse-betting game where the cleverest and most underhanded player wins! The presentation is zodialogical; however, the gameplay is psychological & requires sharp wits.


To play: Use Chinese rocket tokens to change an animal's speed or turn him into a vicious killer. You can even make some animals move drunkenly! Outwit your opponent to be the player with the most stones at the end of 12 rounds.


* 2-player hotseat battle! * 2 A.I. competitors! * 8 fun and colorful animated game tokens! * over 60 cascading, scrolling, and materializing positive zodiac traits! * 3 special endings if you win with either 12 hundred, 12 thousand or 12 million stones! * DELUXE version adds stats, lucky animal, and 2 minigames where you can win more rockets! *


"This game rules! 10/10 will keep playing!" -- Skabooga

Controls: MOUSE - to place rockets and betting stone. KEYPAD: to enter bet amount.  SPACE or ENTER: to navigate to the next screen. M and S: to toggle music and sound effects on/off, respectively

* Jamal Traub (concept/coding/game art) * Mark Ritch (tutorial art) * Davro Ave (game card animal art) * miguello1980 (animal sprites) * Doriane Woo (voice) * Dr. Light (music) * Kennysounds (sound effects) * Jesse Traub (special thanks) *

Updated 10 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Authoraqua.nugget
GenreStrategy, Card Game
Made withGameMaker, Audacity
Tagsbetting, chinese, Cute, horse-betting, Local multiplayer, Lo-fi, Multiplayer, Singleplayer, zodiac
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count2

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Chinese Zodiac Animal Race DELUXE version 52 MB

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(+1)

3 years later and this game rules even harder. Every bet is a game of chicken with your opponent. Especially if the Rooster is one of the animals racing that round.

(+2)

This game rules - I bet on goat, but my opponent put an extra rocket on him, causing him to resign. But then the rockets I put on Tiger caused it to kill Pig, which she had bet on, and both of us lost our bets.

10/10, will keep playing

(Also, a loving recreation of the style and verve of the mid-90s free indie computer game scene)

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Thank you for the awesome review, Skabooga!! :)