Winding Road

The road itself

Fifty tiles, each two units below the last

The road is generated as you go. The build keeps 50 tiles alive around the player, each one 10 units wide and 10 long, and every tile's far edge sits 2 units lower than its near edge, so the course descends in steps rather than running flat.

The first fifteen tiles are straight

After that the heading changes every 10 to 20 tiles by 0.1 to 0.2 radians, roughly 6 to 11 degrees, and the turn direction is picked at random each time. The player object is a mesh the build calls truck, and it rides on 9 downward rays, one in the centre and eight around a 1.5-unit ring, each 5 units long. That ring is what decides whether you are on the road or in the air.

Controls and the opening

A and D, or half the screen each

The game's own tutorial lines read press A and D, or LEFT and RIGHT arrow, to steer, press SPACE to continue on desktop, and tap and hold, left and right part of screen, to steer, tap anywhere to continue on a phone. They are shown once: a hasShownTutorial flag decides whether your first run is the tutorial or the real thing.

Nothing steers for four seconds

Steering is deliberately dead for the first 4 seconds of every run, so the opening stretch cannot be wandered across. The score sits at the top centre in yellow (#f6c100) with a 5-pixel white outline, and it is the only live number on the screen.

On the title screen the only labelled control is PLAY, with a settings button beside it and a small square button below it that the build parks there because it leaves its More Games slot switched off.

Darkness and number plates

Half a second in the air, then the screen dims

Fall for more than 0.5 seconds with steering live and the build starts washing the screen at 0.4 per second, in the same pale olive the menu uses. It reads as daylight draining out rather than a red warning, and when the wash reaches full the run ends and the revive screen opens.

Score is the plate you are standing on

Glasses on the road carry ten number plates reading 1 up to 10 and they spawn every 20 tiles. Touching one sets your score to that plate, and the speed multiplier is 1.5 plus 0.03 per point, so the tenth plate takes you to 1.8x. The revive screen's YES plays a rewarded video and drops you back into the same run with the darkness and the fall timer reset to zero; NO goes to the panel whose heading is GAME OVER, drawn in green over a Score row and a Best row.

Falling is not instantly fatal. Gravity is 100, top fall speed is 40, and a landing faster than 10 after 0.2 seconds in the air bounces you back up at 50 and switches steering off until you touch down again.

Road answers

Tiles, controls and the dark

These answers stay with what the build actually runs: the tile size and step, the two control schemes it prints, and what falling does to the screen.