Initial release!

Hello and thank you for reading! This is just a rant disguised as a postmortem about what I could have done better.

Let's start off with the obvious: aesthetic. I got in a bit of time trouble and wasn't able to finish the game as much as I would have liked. This is  particularly noticable in the UI menus, since they are really quite ugly and the game would have benefitted from a (parallax) background + a main menu. I mainly focussed on functionality after I realised that I wouldn't be able to work on the game for a bit and figured that aesthetic would be the least of my concerns. So I am really quite proud that I managed to get a project submitted!

My second issue with this game is that I personally think the link to the theme is quite weak, since now it is just you drive a car and that's it. I would have liked to implement an intro sequence/story/reason why you were going on this road trip (I did have one kind of planned out and I did some mockup art, but that's about it) and some more turns that would lead different places, like for example a garage where you could upgrade your car. This would complement the "story" (if you could even call it that) I had in mind along with some other systems that I had to scrap due to time constraints.

Overall I am pretty happy with what I've managed to do and I am thinking of updating the game after the jam has ended, so I can implement some more ideas I had for the game and to fix some of the issues I caught during development, but didn't fix (like for example after you've stopped for gas (or just visisted the gas turn), you can sometimes get unlucky with the moving cars speed and you won't be able to dodge the car anymore or you can visually see them despawn) and link the game to jam's theme a bit more. No promises though since for story implementations I would need to do some art, which is not really my strong suit (neither is programming, if that was implied).