Race Jimothy: a drawing race where you sketch your own runner
Race Jimothy
Most racing games ask you to pick a car or a character. This one hands you a pencil. Five colors, a blank canvas, and a single task: draw a runner fast enough to beat a raccoon.
The game is called Race Jimothy, and its core idea is that your drawing becomes a physical object. The lower strokes turn into legs, and then an arcade simulation takes over: the shape, length, and evenness of the legs decide how your creature lurches down the track.
What happens on the track
A run is thirty meters in 3D perspective with a follow camera. In the next lane is Jimothy, a wild raccoon from Seattle who has no intention of letting you win. The outcome depends entirely on what you doodled: long, even legs run faster, while crooked and short ones doom your figure to comedic tumbles.
Legless drawings are allowed too — they get by on hopping. That means losing is usually funny rather than frustrating, and your hand itches to redraw it one more time.
Why it hooks you
There is no single correct answer. You can draw a classic stick figure, a spider with eight legs, or something entirely abstract. Each run is a mini-experiment: what if the legs were longer? The simulation answers honestly every time, and that feedback loop is exactly what pulls you back in.
It is a perfect break game: one run takes a couple of minutes, and a botched creation guarantees a smile.