Thank you very much! I'm glad you like the game so far!
- About the upgrade system: do you have a suggestion that would be better than pressing down to scroll through the upgrades? I've been thinking about this for a long time, but I can't come up with a better solution. (And I don't like pressing a lot of buttons to navigate, so I thought this would be a good solution.)
- The weight reduction is very beneficial with the heavier cars. Less weight means better acceleration and less brake wear.
- About the engine that keeps blowing up: let me guess: there's steam coming out of the car? And you can't use your turbo? If so, your radiator is leaking and your engine doesn't cool down anymore. Your engine will overheat and eventually blow up prematurely.
In the next big update I'm going to add text warnings and messages for people who don't really understand what's happening or what all those visual cues mean.
- About leaving without any repairs: that's on purpose. After each race, whether you finish or not, you can do at least 1 upgrade and do some repairs. If you want to sacrifice a live, you can exploit this and, after you blow up your engine, repair/upgrade your car without replacing your engine. You immediately quit the next race, and you can then replace the engine. Now you have a new engine and an upgraded/repaired car!
- About the generic stages: I know. I never intended to replicate the stages of Turbo OutRun. Check my rendition of the Turbo OutRun logo. I deliberately removed the American flag so I can have the freedom (no pun intended 🦅) to do my own thing. If I could, I would draw my own trackside objects.
However, most of the stages have only one repeating trackside object and I'm going to change that. It's a tedious job to put them in, but I'm going to throw in a random generator that will do that job for me.
- About your suggestions:
- The band is a good idea!
- Your girlfriend leaving is something that I'm going to add, but it will probably only happen if you complete the original mode, instead of after each race.
- I'm about to make those objects very soon! I'm already thinking about how I'm going to program it.
- Oil slicks... They look cool. Maybe I'll add them 😁
The next update might take a while. I'm also working on a new game mode: just cruising through random stages without a time limit. And I want to add and improve quite a bit of things so I can proudly call it v.0.4 😆
