Hi! Just played your game though and thought to leave some comments on my experience in case you enjoy hearing your players experiences:
- Nice subversion of expectations at the very beginning! I was so ready to start playing a race game, and then suddenly... POOF.... the race track disappears and I'm reading dialogue in someone's bedroom. I don't remember being this surprised playing a jam game before.
- Overall, I liked the idea of combining narrative parts with the gameplay of a race game. It felt like that alternating these two different kinds of game play, neither did not get boring. If it had been just reading dialogue or just driving all the time, it might have not been as interesting to play.
- In the story part it would have been nice if the background would have changed as the location changes. It was a bit confusing to have the bedroom background while reading about events happening at a car race
- I really enjoyed the music in the story section.
- At the car race, all the other cars crashed together and I was left racing alone which felt a bit weird as there was no one to compete against
- There were no instructions for controls in the game which would have been helpful. (Maybe image or text shown at the screen before starting the race would have been nice). However I managed to figure out the controls by guessing after all the other cars had exploded.
- The dialogue system was had some slight issues: 1) the images of the characters inhumanly tall compared to their width, 2) the image was not changed when the character player was speaking to changed, 3) the player character was called the "Player" which felt odd compared to the other characters who had names. Was there a reason why you decided that the protagonist shouldn't have a name?, 4) sometimes the speaker was "None". In that case maybe completely removing the box for the speaker name would have been reasonable.
- The racing part of the game was quite easy, I didn't really feel like the other cars could even possibly beat me in any of the races I played. Maybe making the competition more difficult could increase the excitement a player gets from winning a match.
- I would have liked the car to be faster to turn as now changing directions was super slow. Also, maybe all the cars could have driven faster. After all, it is supposed to be a racing game, and going fast is part of that.
- Towards the end of the game I started to grow tired of reading long dialogue. It might have been that I was tired when playing or then you might consider making the story sections more compact.
- However, there were some comedically surprising moments in the story that almost made me laugh. At the end after the protagonist has won the race, Kenna is being suddenly nice which completely threw me off. But the funny part was that, that was not even the twist but you manage to make anther twist out of that first twist! That was somehow a really funny moment.
Overall, I liked the concept of combining two very different genres like racing games and stories. It was an interpretation of the theme that I wouldn't have thought of myself.
If there is something else you would like to ask from a player of your game, I'm happy to answer for a specific question you might have. Otherwise, if you happen to try our jam game at some point, please consider letting us know what you think of it.