Shoulda, Coulda but Didn't by Budaniel
Buddy and Will need to get to Aaghshop, so help them get their rickety old electric car to the store without it running out of power (or breaking down from hitting stuff). Ram power poles to get more power but watch your car's health!

| Windows | https://budaniel.itch.io/coulda-shoulda-but-didnt |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/coulda-shoulda-but-didnt |
Ratings
| Overall | 775th | 2.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 668th | 2.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 736th | 2.476⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 659th | 3.095⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 758th | 2.333⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 417th | 2.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 93th | 3.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 702th | 2.625⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
I did enjoy your voice acting, it would have been nice with more :)
The game felt hard, but not..... Challenging if you know what I mean. There were what? Two powerpacks? And even if you only stayed on the main road you barely made it. It could have been fun to have to go through some more challenging areas to get the powerpacks. Another thing was that I did not feel like I knew where I was going or how far I had left. Once my car flipped over and after that I did not know if I was going backwards or forward, maybe adding a minimap or a "distance left" meter. On one of my tries I think I ran into a bug, I tried my breaks in the middle of the road and after that my car would not move(I had about 25% power left)
I did enjoy your voice acting, it would have been nice with more :)
The game felt hard, but not..... Challenging if you know what I mean. There were what? Two powerpacks? And even if you only stayed on the main road you barely made it. It could have been fun to have to go through some more challenging areas to get the powerpacks. Another thing was that I did not feel like I knew where I was going or how far I had left. Once my car flipped over and after that I did not know if I was going backwards or forward, maybe adding a minimap or a "distance left" meter. On one of my tries I think I ran into a bug, I tried my breaks in the middle of the road and after that my car would not move(I had about 25% power left)
Likes:
- really funny real life voice overs, great!
- multiple radio stations, hah
- you get to drive on a seemingly open world highway!
- driving off the roads to collect things feels ridiculously overpowered (I like to think I have 50 tons worth of trailers behind my rig)
Challenges:
- the view distance is a bit low
- what does the space bar do exactly? feels like accelerating, but it's braking. more or less... :)
Overall:
- a pretty different entry with funny dialogue and a neat trucker flair
Some more backstory would improve the game, and the loading could be improved, so you don't see the world loading in as you drive. Maybe some fog could improve the situation?...
Also I found myself out of power way to quickly. Maybe some more energy pods?
Overall, nice game, but there is still a lot more that could be done to improve it!
6/10 would have mountains come into existence suddenly
- Nice job on the voice acting
- Fun idea, I like the first-person driving and the setting
- Enjoyed the slightly weird music and changing between radio stations :)
Opportunities for improvement:
- Level design / gameplay is a little weak in comparison - not much to make the challenge interesting, skillful, want to go back and do better next time, etc
Overall though, nice :)
I liked the map design, the goofy voice acting/music, and the controls. Flooring it into a pole and flipping end over end into a mountain lake was really fun!!