Nicely done! Maybe the environment could be more pretty, but for seven days, this game feels really good. The mechanic is very fun, but sometimes also annoying, when you are so close to a powerup and can't reach it. Maybe you should implement a slow going forward, when you press "w", and the rewind should be more powerful in less time. But that's just my taste.
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Thank you! I focused a lot on the vehicle rather than the track/environment itself since I really need to know if the mechanic of reversing would work. I kept working on it until I got to a point where the basic stuff felt right. On a side note, I only had 4 days to develop it.
With the main mechanic, it was really missing one special sauce, the "handbraking." So on my end, I recently added a handbrake control, allowing you to skid. So collecting those pickups and avoiding danger won't be so hard anymore.
But here's a quick tip for the current version:
You can slow down bit by bit by repeatedly tapping on "Reverse."
I will still explore on your suggestions and thank you so much for playing! 🙏