Fox Kart Rally

Game guide

Everything about the game: how it is played, every menu and every setting.

• How to play
• Race modes
• Items
• Opponents
• Tracks and unlocking
• Online leaderboard
• Menus and screens
• Garage
• Settings
• Controls and watches
• Tips

How to play

Fox Kart Rally is a kart race for your Garmin watch. You see the track from behind your kart, the throttle is automatic, and you only steer: left or right. Each race is two laps; on every lap you drive through four gates in order, and the race ends when you cross the finish line after the second lap.

Bends push the kart outwards, so turn in early. Off the road the kart slows down, at the wall it slows down a lot, and hard steering at full speed costs a little pace. A calm line is usually faster than wild steering.

A 3-2-1 countdown starts every race. Pause stops everything; a short countdown follows when you continue.

Race modes

Everything starts in the Play menu, the cups and the time trial have their own entries.

Training

Practice without scoring on open tracks. The steering assist is yours to choose.

Single race

Four drivers (you, hare, badger, raccoon) with items on an open track. Your place counts in the statistics.

Cups

Woodland Cup and Summit Cup, three races each, 5 / 3 / 2 / 1 points for places 1 to 4. Ties are decided by wins, then second places, then the last race. The standing is saved, so you can continue a cup later.

Time trial

Alone on the track, no items, fixed steering assist, two laps against the clock. Your best time per track is saved and can go to the online leaderboard.

Items

Golden leaves on the track give you an item. You carry one item at a time and use it with the item key (START) or by tapping the item circle at the top of the screen.

Turbo

A strong boost for about 1.5 seconds.

Leaf shield

Blocks one hit.

Pine cone

Flies straight ahead along your lane and hits the kart in front of it.

Mud patch

Stays on the track behind you and slows down whoever drives through it.

Opponents

In single races and cups you race against three opponents. The hare takes the inside line and uses items at once, the badger holds the centre line and drives carefully in tight bends, the raccoon uses its items depending on the situation. The owl comments on the tournament in the story scenes.

Tracks and unlocking

There are six tracks in two cups: Pinewood Circuit, Meadow Sprint and Millbrook Run in the Woodland Cup; Canyon Loop, Frosty Pines and Sunset Summit in the Summit Cup.

The Pinewood Circuit and the Woodland Cup are open from the start. A track opens once you have raced it in a cup. Completing the Woodland Cup (any place counts) opens the Summit Cup; once both cups are complete every track is open and the story finale is shown. Winning the Summit Cup gives you the Golden Tail and the champion paint for your kart.

Online leaderboard

The time trial has an online leaderboard with one list per track: the lowest time wins, equal times share a rank. It is free and optional. In the game open Records, then Online leaderboard, and choose Join (pseudonym): you get an automatic player name such as Fox-Swift-4821, no account and no e-mail address are needed.

Every online run is recomputed by the server with the rules of the game, so only real times count. A time that cannot be uploaded right now stays on the watch as Upload pending and is sent later. Times that are too long for scoring stay local.

You can change your player name (the game shows a one-time code for our web page) or delete all your online data at once: Records, then Online leaderboard. The lists are also shown on this website.

Menus and screens

Start menu

Play, Cups, Time trial, Records, Garage, Settings, Help and Quit.

Track select

Shows the six tracks, locked ones are marked. The note explains how a track opens.

Cup standing

Points of the cup so far, the next race and the finale. A running cup can be continued or restarted (the saved standing is lost then).

Pause menu

Resume, Restart, Main menu. Restart and Leave ask for confirmation, in a cup the confirmed results stay.

Result screen

Your place, time and best lap, and New record! if you beat your best.

Records

Best times and best laps per track, statistics (races, wins) and the entry Online leaderboard (join, ranking, change the player name, delete online data).

Garage

Choose the colour of the fox's fur and the paint of the kart.

Story album

Under Help: watch the intro and the scenes you have already seen once more; the finale after the cups.

Help

How to play (steering, driving, items, cups, pause), Watch the intro and the Story album.

Garage

Choose the fur of the fox: blue, orange, red, green, violet or pink. The kart paint can be blue, red, green, yellow or cream. The champion paint in gold opens when you have won the Summit Cup.

Settings

Settings are in four categories. Changes to the rules apply from the next race.

Game: Steering assist

A gentle help towards the line in training and single races. Cups and time trials always use the fixed assist.

Game: Vibration

A short buzz at lap changes, hits and the finish. Hidden on watches without a vibration motor.

Game: Countdown

Show 3-2-1 after a pause. The race start always counts down.

Game: Films

Show the story scenes once or before every race.

Display: Details

Full shows decoration, dust and the centre line, Reduced only road and drivers, Auto picks by watch. On watches with little memory Full is limited.

Display: Contrast

High gives stronger road edges.

Display: Language

German or English for all texts of the game.

Controls: Input

Auto uses touch and keys where the watch has them; you can force Touch or Keys.

Controls: Swap keys

Swaps UP and DOWN for steering.

Controls: Touch and Keys

Overview of the controls of your watch.

Online profile

Join, change the player name with a code, delete your online data.

Reset progress

Resets cups, unlocks and story. Records, champion paint and online data stay.

Controls and watches

With keys: UP steers left and DOWN steers right (hold = continuous steering), START uses the item, BACK pauses. With a touchscreen: hold or drag the left or right half of the screen to steer, a tap steers for a short moment; tap the item circle at the top for the item and the pause button at the bottom right to pause.

The game runs on 64 Garmin watches with a colour display. Watches of the older Connect IQ 3 generation (for example fenix 5 / 6, Forerunner 245 / 645 / 745 / 945, vivoactive 3 / 4, original Venu) are not supported because the pictures do not fit into their memory. The game draws the kart in the size that fits the display, and every race plays offline; only the optional leaderboard needs your phone.

Tips

Turn in early and keep a smooth line: steering at full speed costs a little pace.

Pick up golden leaves even if they are slightly off your line, an item is worth more than a few metres.

Keep the turbo for the straight after a bend, the shield for the lap where the pack is close.

In the time trial there are no items - the best line wins. Watch your best lap in the Records.