KITE KARTS

Pinwheel Sweep, lap two. You hold a long drift through the banked corner, your sparks go gold, then teal, and a ribbon in your colour unrolls behind you. The racer behind steers onto it, their Breeze meter climbs, and they slingshot past on the exit. In KITE KARTS the best driver makes a road, and the next one uses it.

KITE KARTS is a kite festival on toy racetracks, all bunting, giant pinwheels, market awnings and kite stalls by the last corner. You race as your own Roblox avatar in a chunky toy kart, and every kart flies a Kiteling, a little co-pilot kite on a line: Zip, Flutter, Pom or Swirl. The tour starts in Pinwheel Park among giant pinwheels, a pond and a windmill, then loops round the clock tower of Clockwork Market's toy-town square, through the ice tunnel and under the chairlift of Snowkite Summit, and along the lantern-strung road of Sunset Mesa.

Line up for a Gust Start, then drift the corners: hold a drift longer and it climbs from Puff to Gust to Gale, charging a bigger boost when you let go. Drifting, landing a trick or boosting lays a short glowing ribbon; drive along anyone else's and you draft and fill your Breeze meter fast. Grab Prize Pinwheels for items, spend Breeze on the straights, cross the line, collect Bows, change your look and race again. A race is three laps and about two minutes.

The ribbon makes every corner a choice: lay one, or deny one to the kart on your tail. Catch-up comes from things you can see, ribbons anyone can ride and item odds that favour the back of the pack, so races stay close without anyone being secretly slowed down. The six items are pure slapstick: Splat Pie, Jelly Block, Gust Fan, Pop Umbrella, Ribbon Hook and Bumper Ring. A hit ends in a cartoon spin, never a crash.

The first release rotates four tracks, Pinwheel Park, Clockwork Market, Snowkite Summit and Sunset Mesa, in three-lap races for up to eight racers, with CPU racers filling the grid when it is quiet. Each track has its own trick: flip off the Kite Ramp and take the Hay Bale Cut in Pinwheel Park, time the swing bridge over the canal in Clockwork Market, hold your line on the ice and the open Cornice Run of Snowkite Summit, and race the final lap of Sunset Mesa at night under the lanterns. Tap REMATCH to go again with the same crew.

Every racer earns Bows, whatever their place. Spend them in the Garage on kart bodies, Kitelings, sixteen paints and ribbon styles; three daily goals add more, and your best race and lap are kept for every track. Nothing in the Garage makes a kart faster.

KITE KARTS is in development for Roblox.