Driving to my folks' place for the holidays on 12-13-2024
CW: Jump scare, mentions suicidal ideation
Driving to my folks' place for the holidays on 12-13-2024 is a very, very short "game" designed for a horror mini-event to make something uh, pretty small. It sort of got wrapped up in my recent desire to make more "diary games" and looking into engines like bitsy and design ideas like flatgames. This is not a bitsy game or a flatgame really, but I've never done a "structured wandering with text vibes-based game" sort of deal.
Was nice to play around with color again, it's been a bit. Since my last posting I have some unpublished projects that are all monochrome, so this was nice to get into since that last time I worked with color was Dedicated Healer a few months ago.
The holidays are weird this year.
Game works on browsers but has no touch input for mobile. Sound has been tested to work on Chrome, still troubleshooting on how to get it work on other browsers that report issues. Got fullscreen to work properly now, at least, it stretches instead of just staying the same size.
Credits are available after the game, or from navigating to the title screen early.
Controls:
Arrow Keys to move
X calls the menu and backs through menu windows
Z confirms and moves forward through menu windows
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i always like these sort of autobiographical introspective type things. there's something compelling about just hearing the details of someone else's life. i thought it was cool how things in the game world represented things in real life, like a was looking through a filter that shows things as someone perceives them. it was cool!
i felt really cute driving around as the little car, on the wrong side of the road cause i can 😎
Thank you for checking it out! There's not a whole lot to it, and I had to tone it down a bit in spots, but it felt good to make something like this, hope to do more of them that are just a little more navigationally interesting or at least have more art and effects. I had to make it on a pretty tight timetable too, so I wish I coulda drawn more things and stuff. I think the car turned out surprisingly well (cars are hard to draw ;w;)
Around here the roads are pretty tight, but when you get out on some of the big stretches, like dallas to austin or austin to corpus christi, there's so much like, raw terrain, it's pretty wonderful. Can go pretty dang fast if there isn't a lot of traffic. If one was so inclined to do so, of course 😎
The only way I haven't been is out westerly, and I imagine it's even emptier out that way. Doesn't have a major hub as far as I can tell.
Anyway anyway, thank you again for giving it a go! Means a lot to me ^^
I have been thinking about journal/vignette/autobiographical games recently, and this is great!!
Thank you! I think it turned out alright. Clumsy, maybe, but it does the job XD
I'm hoping to keep doing more personal works. My biggest barrier as an artist right now is not really having a grasp on like that internal self of sorts, so I'm hoping by making more stuff I'll slowly get to where I can harness that better?
Good luck with your own such endeavors too, of course! ^^