There's so much potential for this demo! I'd love to try out building a 3d environment with ramps, hills, hot dog carts to smash into, and other obstacles. Just the power up design space has plenty of room for growth, as does the variety of enemy vehicles you could encounter, especially if you start designing enemy types with abilities in mind and vice versa.
Of course you may get bumped off or miss a turn here and there, but do your best to stay on the road and get back to it ASAP. No intentionally veering offroad to avoid damage. Just take it like a truck.
I took the Cursed XP perk every chance I got (Level up 20% faster, but all enemies have 20% more health).
I've also discovered a minor exploit. It seems that something funny is going on with how gold drop is calculated. It looks like the amount of gold is calculated by X amount per car when a shot kills the killing blow. Normally this works fine, but the blunderbuss can deliver several killing blows effectively at once causing a vehicle to drop its reward gold multiple times from a single fire of the blunderbuss. I'm not 100% sure that's what's happening, but it seems to be the case. You have to play somewhat risky to take advantage of this exploit by letting the incoming vehicle get super close.
The main thing that was letting me level up so fast was the Cursed XP though.
So much unexplored design space, yet the core is already tons of fun. Hopefully you get the opportunity to come back and turn this into a full game! Although I know if you don't that means you've got something even better on your hands, which is even more exciting!!
