Bat Outta Hell is now playable on mobile. Not gonna say it's perfect, but the start is there. It supports tilt steering. It calibrates after a short countdown when you hit start game if tilt steering is on / available. On iOS, this requires accepting a permission. Touch gestures available if you don't wanna use the tilt steering. I probably need to run through the how to play section and do some updating, but controls are:
Swipe up / down: Throttle
Flick left and right (when tilt steering is off or unavailable): steer
Two finger single tap: Activate power-up
3 finger single tap: Pause / unpause
Two finger up / down / left / right: Announce various bits of info
These work on most of the playable area, but two vertical strips on the left and right are dedicated to the horn / horn ball.
On iOS and Android, touch controls are unavailable unless screen reader is off. Thus, there's a use TTS checkbox in options. On iOS, every time the TTS fires, it significantly ducks audio. This is far from idea, but completely out of my hands. I would therefore recommend becoming familiar with the game / sounds on PC or Mac, then turning off the automatic speech announcements on mobile once you know the sounds well enough. This will still let you use the two finger swipes to get info.

For those who need the link: https://ironcross32.github.io/Bat_Outta_Hell/
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Bat Out Of Hell

@bscross32 are you the one that made batt out of hell? I play it on pc and I really like it. I'll have to try it on the iPhone.
@cary5871 Yep, that's me.
@bscross32 I like it, I just can't figure out what the horn ball powerups are for. also, is there any way to get above 100mph? and it's too bad you can't get wrenches in reserve for when your car gets beat up, traveling at ridiculously low speeds until you can collect wrenches is annoying. rofl
@cary5871 They let you shoot obstacles, or really most things. It's kind of stupid, but a long time ago, like late '90s, there was this game called Viper Racing, and there was a cheat that let you shoot these balls out of the front of your car by blowing the horn, when they hit another car, it would cause them to spin out. So I kinda took that idea and added it to this.
@bscross32 oh interesting. do you have a website where this game lives? because a friend of mine gave it to me, and I'm not sure if I have the latest version or not. ✨
Bat Out Of Hell

@bscross32 This game is seriously addictive. here's my stats for the most recent run I did:
Average speed: 115 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 115.
Near misses: 38.
Crashes: 5.
Gas tanks collected: 12.
Wrenches collected: 3.
Total power-ups collected: 31.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 25.8%, Rocket 58.1%, Horn ball 16.1%.
Fired 50 horn balls, hitting 39 and missing 11, for an accuracy of 78%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 8.
Sink holes traversed: 0.
Hit 8 ramps and missed 19, for an accuracy of 29.6%.
Total air time: 88.0 seconds.
Coins collected: 66.
Longest rocket run: 50.0 seconds.
my one major complaint is, I wish it had better sounds. but for a web browser game, it's pretty awesome. ✨
@cary5871 The choice of sounds is intentional. They're all synthesized.
@bscross32 interesting, did you choose synthesized sounds for a reason? just curious.
@cary5871 Yeah. I wanted that arcade feel, plus I like Syngen,, which is the engine the game is powered by.
@bscross32 that's cool. I do enjoy the game a lot, it's quite the addictive thing. 💖