This was plenty fun. For now I have only played with the CPU but I am trying to get some friends over this weekend to play some of these games that needs two players.
I read your other reply to Matt and I understand that I should follow the rhytm more but almost everytime I tried to place a piece it did not get placed and I had to quickly place another one. Having the cpu player only being able to place straight got me to lose a few times but I guess that makes the most sense and if you want to get the best score you should play with a friend as well.
For me the table was a bit too far when I started the game so I had to reorient myself a few times but the game started after a certain amount of time. An easy quality of life fix for this would be that the game starts when you place the first track piece (or maybe when pulling the train whistle.
How is you game randomized? I feel like sometimes it was really hard in the beginning and sometimes it was almost no obstacles at all. I also got one really hard section where I had to turn both down and then up straight after. I guess that is impossible solving when playing with the cpu.
I don’t think I tried but can you hold one piece in your hand to “save” it for a disaster? Edit: I booted up the game again and tried this myself instead of waiting for a reply haha. So the idea is that I use my left hand to store one of the turn pieces to faster react in an “emergency”. This helped a lot and I could look ahead when I felt that I had time and prepare a turn piece. For some reason I only wanted to hold the pieces that turned right/down in my right hand and left/up in my left haha. And then when holding that turn piece in one hand the other hand’s mission is just to place straight pieces. Felt like a decent strategy.
I vibed with the music and really liked that it got faster along with the game. It would be fun to incorporate the whistle somehow. Maybe an obstacle could be some animals in the way that you could whistle to get them to run away haha. A way to show the player whose turn it is could be to have some sort of outline for the piece and have it red when it would not accept being placed and blue when it is ready. Maybe this makes it too easy for the rhytm part though.
I saw that you recorded a video for a bunch of games here and I will try to record one myself(probably this weekend). Currently my high score is 70.