We're Breaking Up by RobotChimp

You're driving down a long stretch of road in the middle of the night.
Your phone won't stop ringing and your signal won't stop breaking. Try your best to understand people (or animals?) over the phone. Don't forget to keep your eyes on the road.
A short chaotic visual novel experience. Windows download is on the itch page.
ALL ART CREATED LABORIOUSLY BY PASSALONG !
cryptozoologist - chunky writing - robotchimpz, passalong, spookybees
| Link | https://robotchimpz.itch.io/were-breaking-up |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/were-breaking-up |
Ratings
| Overall | 25th | 4.273⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 54th | 4.091⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 46th | 4.136⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 279th | 3.985⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 36th | 4.574⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 34th | 4.242⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 42th | 4.364⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 41🗨️ |
It would be a shame not to play this. And it won't be.
Anyway, the game is really fun, great job!
@pokeydem Thank you! I'll keep the feedback in mind. Would you be able to clarify on what felt unresponsive with it?
@rta228 The art style was partially inspired by 'No, I am not a human'! Thank you!
@tolviere Thank you!!!
@greenradiation the beer can is just a distracting visual, maybe it's played too often... you don't have to worry about anything other than the wheel and dialogue options. Thank you!
@toshiy THANK YOU!!! <3
The game is really cool! I loved everything. You managed to create a unique atmosphere.
Also, I'm never going to the woods again fearing the deer will find me.
The only challenging point for me was following the conversations while dodging with the mouse (even more so since I use a trackball), so at times it felt like I had to choose between reading and reacting.
The way you’ve integrated the loss of coverage mechanic is really interesting, although as I mentioned before, I found it hard to follow the dialogue—especially while losing signal—but of course that’s part of the mechanic, and overall I think it works fantastically.
You’ve done an excellent job!
this is an incredible interpretation of the theme, very original. i especially like how the controls are easy to understand and hard to master :D
the visuals are also top-notch!
thank you for the experience :)
(my English is not that good, so I immediately failed, lol)
Really great submission!
Looks great, all very silly
One improvement would be a little better visual hitbox for the car, I found it was kind of tough to tell where you would hit things even when paying full attention to it.
(hey how'd you make the road look like that? is it 2d or 3d?)

@vary the road is 3D! It's just repeating pieces with a shader to add that little visual curve.