Controls are either mouse or left/right arrow keys. Move side to side collecting yellow objects and avoiding red objects. Attempt to chain good pickups to increase the multiplier and get big points.
I'm not sure I really understood the game, such as why animal creatures kept flying across the screen or what this has to do with the theme for that matter, but it was a fairly simple and fun game.
Hey guys thanks for checking the game out. You are the villain, while you think you're racing around space you're actually running over innocent people. This is shown in the brief flashback moments.
In Light Speed Driver the player is the "villain".
The player is hallucinating due to being on LSD hence the title [L]ight [S]peed [D]river. While the driver believes himself to be in a fantasy game world he is in fact going on a carmagedeon style rampage running over innocent cartoon-like civilians.
When hitting the stop sign icons the player catches glimpses of reality.
On game over the player finally is jettisoned out of his vehicle to his own death.
Spent the first few minutes trying to work out how to shoot because of the crosshair in the middle, had it not been for your spiffy unity web page player work I would've been stuck all day! Controls are a bit choppy, and the score doesn't seem to increase, but all in all the game is pretty fun.
nice, i understood what was going on (you're fucked up and think you're traveling to space but you're actually just on the road) and appreciated that you didn't hammer it in with a story screen or anything.
Have to admit, I had a lower score until I read some of the comments. Nice allegory but the gameplay still suffers from being sluggish and twitchy, somehow at the same time. I enjoyed everything else, though!
The whole back story explaining the tie in with the theme that you described in the comments would've been useful as a starting sequence in the game or in the description above. That aside, it's a nice little trippy game. :)
At first I was like, why is a light speed driver a villain, but then I got a little better at catching those yellow objects and got it :) But i'm not sure if this is physically correct :P
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The player is hallucinating due to being on LSD hence the title [L]ight [S]peed [D]river. While the driver believes himself to be in a fantasy game world he is in fact going on a carmagedeon style rampage running over innocent cartoon-like civilians.
When hitting the stop sign icons the player catches glimpses of reality.
On game over the player finally is jettisoned out of his vehicle to his own death.
But when I know Light Speed Driver means LSD,
this makes me "WOW!"