Paint Rush

Overview

Paint the track. Break the rules. Race for glory.

Paint Rush is a competitive team-based couch co-op racing game where speed meets strategy in a teenager's world of vibrant color chaos. 

Inspired by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2, players can race and knock over paint buckets to refill a paint cannon attached to their kart. This cannon can shoot colors across the track and create unique kart effects such as speed, bounciness, or even lifting gravity.

Key Features

• Painting Gameplay
  • Shoot paint on the racing track for strategy, use it for benefit or against opponents
  • Mixing paints that create unique effects (negative and positive)
• Race against your friends
  • Race with your friends alongside AI racers
• Customization
  • Modify your kart and change the style of your racer in the underground hub
• Controller-friendly
  • Designed for both casual and competitive racers alike
• Strategy
  • Learn which paint effects can turn tide of the race and use them to your advantage

Target Audience

• Ages 10+
• Fans of kart racers, party games, and arcade action
• Perfect for players who enjoy fast-paced multiplayer fun with strategy

Story

You're just a regular teenager until you've stumbled upon a secret underground racing club run by a crew of rebellious teenagers. During one of their chemistry classes, they accidentally created a mysterious paint that defied the laws of physics. With their passion for racing and art, they mixed it to create high-speed races built secretly across abandoned factories, rooftops, and hidden tunnels.

Each color of paint brings different effects, some speed you up, others mess with your rivals, and a few might just break reality itself.

Join the ranks, earn your stripes, and paint the tracks in your name. Just don't ask where the paint came from.

Release Date

• June 2025
• Playable demo available on itch.io

About the Team

Paint Rush is a capstone project developed by a group of Game Level Design graduate students from Sheridan College, with support from a programming co-op. Over 8 weeks, the team will be crafting this vibrant, fast-paced game that combines creativity, fun, and polish into an unforgettable racing game.

Team Members 

• Lead Level Designer: Lingxi Chen
• Level Designers: Lingxi Chen, Magdalena Szlapczynski, Tristan Hafkenscheid
• Lead Programmer: Tristan Hafkenscheid
• Programmers: Magdalena Szlapczynski, Tristan Hafkenscheid
• Lead Artist: Magdalena Szlapczynski
• Game Artists: Magdalena Szlapczynski, Lingxi Chen

Contact: paint.rush.studios@gmail.com

Install Instructions

Unzip the file to a folder and run the .exe file.