Really creative concept, that was a ton of fun! Neat deformation of the road mesh, that must have been fun to implement.
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Highway Havoc's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #58 | 4.407 | 4.407 |
| Enjoyment | #62 | 4.210 | 4.210 |
| Overall | #174 | 4.128 | 4.128 |
| Presentation | #1062 | 3.765 | 3.765 |
Ranked from 81 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Instead of driving on a road, you ARE the road and have cars driving on you. You need to carefully drive so the cars don't fall off or hit things while you help them get to their destinations.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
Comments
Thanks, and it was! The mesh itself is pretty simple, it's basically a line renderer that I add to every time my starting point (what you actually control) gets far enough away. I also record this info for the cars so they can sample it on a delay to more smoothly follow an ideal spoth on the path that you carve out.
The trickiest part of it was collisions. I tried just creating a mesh collider but this gave me all kinds of headaches due to it being concave when you go up and down, so instead it's a series of box colliders. Since they're boxes, the cars are more hovercrafts to avoid bouncing and they have to take a few samples of the ground to figure out what direction "up" is. This is also one of the reasons the road is so short, I was worried about creating too many colliders and crashing the game and didn't have time to figure out what a realistic limit would be.
Got to accidently enable a 10 car and 1 hot air balloon pile up. Top tier stuff. Great music.
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the GLIBBSOne of the best game i have played so far for this game jam :D
Really fun with a creative concept. Maybe making the highway going faster over time could add more challenge.
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Island SurvivorsAhahah, just a goofy game, I love it XD
That music is just perfect for the utter nonsense happening!
Great idea, great execution, excellent job! =D
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Spiritual Reversali love this concept haha, the hilarious text makes it perfect. would love to see this polished up into a full game
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Tower's Last StandGreat idea, and well executed ! It's a bit too easy though, the challenge doesn't seem to increase, I killed everyone on purpose after three music loops because I couldn't see it ending anytime soon
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Pushy & FloatyI loved this game! It's crazier than crazy taxi! You should continue working on this and make it a full game. There could be more cool situations: a stage where you're picking up more cars and suddenly become a wider road and have to deal with the challenges of that, or a situation where you have to duck into underground tunnels or a situation where there's a parade through town and you have to pass over it multiple times!
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Drifty BirdI love all those suggestions! I have some ideas for the main gameplay loop too - was thinking of changing it around so that there's an overall timer (or a fixed amount of pavement) and you have to go pick up the cars instead of starting with them. When you get a new car, it has a specific destination assigned and if you can deliver it you get rewarded with something (extra time, or maybe money you can spend on upgrades or more time/pavement).
Really loved it! definitely my favourite take on "you are the road" so far, would love to see this worked on and polished in future!
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A Day in the Day/Night CycleThis is REALLY REALLY FUN!!!! I like how the cars act like an HP bar, and the mechanics could work in so many different ways. This is also the only game I've seen with a genuine tutorial. Great job!
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You're The DogHEY THIS IS A GREAT IDEA! First jam game I've played so far where I thought "huh, that's crazy clever." Lots you could do with this concept! Keep it up, partner!
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Breeze BoundCool game! The highway mechanic looks so clean and is satisfying to pull off. Good job!
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Deal With ItThis game is so much fun and such a great idea. Looks like it came together really well! Great work
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Gardener of LightI've never seen anything like this before and I have no idea how I would even start implementing it... so well done and so creative!
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