Hello, I have a question. Is it okay if the road trip takes place in a bus? Like, doesn't that make it a collective road trip, with the passengers and driver involved in the experience? If so, then I would like to ask:
1) Do the passengers and driver(s) have to know each other for this to classify as a collective road trip?
2) If the passengers and driver(s) don't know each other, would the environment still have to be made more social and positive to make it feel like a collective road trip? (like, would the passengers have to sing together sometimes, or would the player have to get to know his neighbors, stuff like that)
3) I get that these are tricky questions to answer as a bus doesn't exactly classify as a private vehicle that the player or their friends would own, but if the standard, conventional passenger bus is not qualified as one of the vehicles allowed to be used in this game jam, is a smaller, more private minibus or van allowed instead?
Sorry for the late response, I’m graduating today and had to check with my co-host lol
If the bus drive has the experiences of a road trip, it should be ok. E.g: stopping for meals and gas, staying at hotels, sightseeing, etc. I think the difference between a road trip and a regular bus travel in your case would be more important.
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They don’t have to know each other from the get-go. Getting to know (or hate) strangers during the trip is ok.
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The interactions don’t have to be positive. If you want everyone in the vehicle to hate each other’s guts/ actively plan for their murders/not care about each other, that’s okay. The social aspect can be as negative as you want, not all road trips are fun times for everyone.
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Minibus and van are ok, my own game has a van as it vehicle.