Very enjoyable to play. Watching the cars crash into each other is SO satisfying for some reason.

Its more fun after you lose, also the rating system is unclear (do you get 100 for every car through? are there rounds?)

All in all one of my favourites so far

Really liked the graphical aesthetic of the game. Additionally, it was really easy to understand how to play. As others noted, I had fun watching the cars after I lost. Though, I wasn't as compelled to play many more rounds since I didn't notice any type of scoring system.

gave me a good laugth

Overall, a very well made game. Graphics, audio, controls, and design are are all top notch and cohesive.

The gameplay is fun, but gets stale pretty quick. Some kinda variety (ball in the street, police chase, school bus stoppage, traffic jam) could really spice it up.

This game requires you to keep full attention and focus which is nice. analyzing each car to make sure they have a clear path, but once you lose, causing havoc is a lot of fun as well. Good game and idea.

When I saw your cover in Ludum Dare, I HAD TO SEE THIS. .....and you didn't disappoint!

You really gave me a good laugh and **I could see this as a working mobile game**, like Crossy Road.

* Like @nick-rafalski said, it does get stale very quick. I suggest you go with his idea, like random events to spice up the chaos. I suggest different maps in addition to this, like a school crossing and an actual traffic light district.

* For me, this music drowned out the experience. The sounds are too high but good all the same. You at least tried. I suggest beeping cars like one of those traffic situations.

* As everyone would say, yea it was satisfying to see cars crash and all. Might be more funny if there was a sudden influx of cars coming down to pile it up after you lose since it really didn't matter at that point.

* I'm not sure if you're supposed to fail when a car pushes a moving car from the back. I was thinking it only counts as an interection crash.

This is a great entry to Ludum Dare. I would love to see people talking about this as one of those popular simple games you play on the mobile. Heck I might download it on my phone if it comes to that!

There are GDC talks on crossy road. You should watch them if you want to continue with this.

Tried to work it like a set of traffic lights... Y'didn't warn us they'd get impatient after a while and start moving on their own :D

@halouverite @fussenkuh - You get 100 points for every car that has reached the other side of the map (and despawned)

I can't start the game because my view is too small (1440x900) in the web browser

Simple but nice game! One of not many games where you can have fun even after you lose! :grin:

Nice game, idea is simple and fun

This could be so much more! Different speeds, cars turning at the crosssection and ~~randomized spawnage~~ it totally is random, sorry!

I love it.

Great graphics for a compo game. Easy to play, it could be a very good game with other type of cars (police, ambulance, old car ..). Great work, congrats !

@papiertig0r actually only the first spawncycle is set - then it gets all random

I loved this game - super cool. Everything about it was soo kewl.

A bit annoying to click the cars, didn't appreciate the fact that you didn't have a pause menu in case you wanted to exit the game.

Cool game and I expect high ratings for it, well done!

This is good, and a really good idea for a game. The sound effect could be better, and if the cars were bigger it would have a perfect playability. Very fun game.

Amazing Game, I love the Idea and the way the cars crash at the end

Lol, one small hit turns the whole crossing (and probably the whole city;) into total carmagedon :D Awesome, I like it!

AWESOME GAME !!! Such a cool and simple concept :) !I also really like the cute little car models and the smoke trail they leave behind !

Easy yet addicting game. I always love your games. Music was too quiet and I coudln't see where to make it louder.
Congrats!

Haha, good game! But give use the cover image or we won't let you go!

Hey, pretty cool game. The simplicity is great and the game can get hectic pretty fast.

Ofcourse seeing everything go ham after you lost is probably the best thing! :D

Great game. Remind me "Does not Commute" by Mediocre

Ive played that, but I think this one is better

Simple to understand gameplay that's still fun (especially the crashes). The more cars, the harder it becomes, seems to fit the theme well. Overall good job!

Nicely executed, simple but fun idea. Good job.

Nice and simple idea :)

Great concept. Here's what I'd work on if you continue the project:
1. Audio polish
2. Variable vehicle sizes (trucks, limos, motorcycles)
3. Pedestrian or Trolley car events
4. Time of day cycle... love to see this played in a night setting.
5. Rush hour mode (Quick jump to intense action for the veteran players).

Solid game, nicely done!

So this is how autonomous cars are drive...

Good implementation 🙂, it was funny to play (and wreck).

I can see this game getting super frustrating the further you get. Perfect to match the theme!

This was wonderful. It was simple, looked and sounded awesome. And most importantly it was fun. Great job!

Incredibly executed idea

Great game! It could use score counter

Love it! Would be fun if cars would turn left or right :)

Very impressive and quite polished for compo :) fun

The best is to see chaos when we lose! Haha

A quite good and fun game! I think everybody already said everything that can be said, but yes, this is a solid entry!

Starts a bit slow, but when it gets going... IT'S WILD. Cool game.

It is quite fun to play. I was kind of hoping for more cars after one loses ;)

Many games are fun to play and win, and this is no exception.

Its also a lot of fun to lose though!

This game is gorgeous, by the way.

I love how in the first two rounds you taught me everything I needed to know. Very fun, and it's even great to just keep playing after you lose (the chain reaction is where the real game starts! :) )

Nice. Simple idea and good implementation :wink:

Started out simple and fun. Then a car hit another car... then a car spawned inside another car and created a crazy explosion that resembled a locust swarm that could be rivaled only by a plague from Moses. Loved it. 10/10.

It can get really intense after a while. Super simple concept but it really works and it's fun.

Very cute! Nice work, simple and to the point :) a bit unforgiving but that seems fine :D

fun to play

An absolute fucking blast to play, so fun.

There are really nice mechanics, i really liked how chaotic it get on end game :D

a little more city sounds would be an great improvement to the game feeling (:

Good job

Good job, fits the theme PERFECTLY, and the gameplay is very fun.

There's not much else i can say, you nailed it.

Simple and cool idea, I think this was the first LD40 game I tried, congrats!

A simple idea, but impeccably executed. Even losing is satisfying, but successfully timing things properly is a really engaging challenge. I second the recommendations of adding random events, cyclists, pedestrians, anything to increase the chaos! It has a lot of potential for expansion but as it stands this is already a very entertaining game. Nice job!

Awesome game! Love the art style and quickly gets well out of control

Awesome game! Fits the theme, never got too challenging too fast and when I died, it felt like my own fault. It didn't really demotivate me though because seeing a massive car crash is satisfying as well :D I think the music doesn't really fit the game, but that's just a minor thing.

Super fun, simple concept. Great visuals. As some others have suggested, I'd recommend looking at ways to develop further.

Nice and readable game , played in on my laptop with the touchpad, simple controls, i like it.

Very fun game! Some variety in car types might make it more interesting. Like buses or trucks :)

I feel like the funniest part is after you loose!
Cool idea, and nice art style.

Love the gameplay it was fun although a little too slow at the start with a steep curve. The graphics are good although a small touch with Unity's Post-Processing stack and a couple baked lights place would have made it 100x better and helped it to fit the mood better!

Damn you though for having this idea when I didn't! Would've been fun to make and it could really go somewhere with a bit more time to it! Something like random events or just having traffic lights instead of pressing every car could make it more mobile-accessible.

maybe even have the traffic lights but they only stop cars not already too close and some idiots (with a visual indicator) might choose to now stop. Who knows. Great game anyway!

I Love it !

Haha!... that was fun :) Nicely done.

A simple idea made into a fun game.

Really liked the SMACK sound when the cars crash.

Simple and fun, I enjoyed it so much that I wish there was more levels...

Fun game, good job !

Yup.. Its great. Love it.

This game is hilariously fun! Great job! This would be a great mobile game, better than using a mouse.

Wow! A really impressive entry. Would be even more fun to have turning lanes.

I had lag problems, but looks super fun!

Great game! The only complaint that it is very light on gameplay. I like how the game just simulates the traffic with a lot of physics. Graphic is definitely very well done.

Simple, but nice graphics, the game is addictive - it's very difficult to break away from the game :) A very cheerful armageddon when you lose, losing is not so sad, a good example!

I do not envy traffic regulators. And now I even somehow sympathize with them :)

That's definitively one of my favourite entry here. Simple mechanics, interesting graphics, even if you fail, you win (lol). Congrats!

Superb graphics. Nice gameplay. Feels like the game could use some expansion and development (it's too binary right now: one collision and it's game over), but it's already enjoyable.

Nice work ! Loved the "game over" with all the cars :p

Web player doesn't want to be my friend! =(

As for the game, it is the first one, where losing is more fun than playing. Music is catchy, graphics absolutely fits the game. Sounds are not bad, but I would like to hear some kind of horn on near miss and maybe better crash sound in this game.

Awesome game :) so hard ... two run with only 2500 ...

A very fun concept, easy to explain and difficulty progression is nice and slow to ease yourself in. The vehicle and city design looks pretty good as well!

Nice entry. Good idea with starting the first car on screen, to show how game works. Nice detail with collision on lampposts. Nice 3D models, and good music score. I wished the cars would start up just a little bit faster, to not pile up, otherwise, great game!

It's a gorgeous game! Awesome work!

Very clever and fun. Wish one mistake didn't end the round.

Really liked it ! It's totally within the theme. My best was 4000 but I can do better. The game drastically gets harder at this point !

Very good one! Clever idea!

Cool game! I think the difficult could start racking up sooner, but it was nice :)

Really cool idea but something is causing the game to lag badly during the crashes. Are you creating a new AudioSource whenever a collision occurs? It feels like you are doing some really intensive operation (like making new AudioSources) whenever two cars are touching, so it gets super laggy if they get stuck together in a corner.

@isogash I spawn a particle system, when two cars hit eachother fast. Additionally more cars spawn, after you have died.

Pretty good idea, makes me think of those games were you need to control an airport or something similar. Good twist on the theme. Definitely had a good time playing this :3

This was some good fun, if only to watch the carnage at the end. The difficulty curve was quite nicely balanced. The only downside for me was the audio. Other than that, great job.

nice theme addicted for a while.

Love the game but i found this:


Good game. I think he could start getting harder before, and having to click on the cars was a bit complicated but nothing that would detract from the feeling.

Bom jogo. Acredito que ele poderia começar a ficar mais difícil antes, e ter que clicar sobre os carros foi um pouco complicado mas nada que prejudicasse o feeling.

Nice idea and perfect theme interpretation. Clicking on cars is bit harder than it should be, but I wasn't disappointed when I lost.

This game is fun, a good original idea. Nice work!

Really good ! Especially the end haha

got me hooked for a min, nice!

Nice idea and representation! Only thing missing for me is car collision sounds. Thank you for making this game I enjoyed playing it!

Very cool idea but it would be nice if there were more potential crashes. Right now most cars can just drive through without the player having to do anything. Thus, it gets boring quite fast.

@game-coder28 this bug should be fixed now - Maybe this caused alot of lag @isogash @gaminbru

Who needs traffic lights? This starts off at a very liesurely pace (perhaps a bit too slow) and gets more frantic as time goes on. Then you start looking at possible collisions saying "Yeah, I think they should just barely miss each other." That's when it gets fun. Actually, when cars start hitting each other it is quite fun just to let everything erupt into collision chaos and watch the beautiful scene that occurs. The graphics are nice and simple yet nice which is what you want for a 48 hour game.

Nice game.
Score label is not very visible and the music is very annoying i think..
More car sound like honks could be great with a traffic sound in background maybe ?
Nice graphics :)

Love the game over sequence with all the cars, but you could add the a bit of post process/ lighting to take it to the next level

Simple idea and graphics but the result is really cool. Well done!

Man I really wish this was on a touch device! Very simple concept that is brilliantly executed into a really fun game! Music is cute, reminds me of an old MMO I used to play. I also love how you can keep playing in the lose screen haha.

Really brilliant ! Nice gameplay !

Pretty fun idea! The graphics are nice but I missed a more moody music and sfx. I think it would benefit of some bonuses like near misses. Solid entry!

Very fun to play! I wish there would be more car types :) It has a lot of potential for going on mobile devices like a tablet.

Simple and super easy to understand; but brillant. Very elegant game design !

This is the game i never knew i wanted

Great game, pretty addictive. I like the 3D graphics, it really fits the game.

Such a fun game! A bit frustrating but I love playing it, this will definitely be a game that I keep around post jam! Perhaps in the future you could mix it up a bit with swerving/diagonally moving cars? Great job!

Great game, lovely play style and brutally punishing if you make one mistake.

it's fun until the cars become too much. then you just lean back and enjoy the view.

Really funny game, i enjoyed playing a lot. The music is a little annoying, but it's a great game. Good job!

Fantastic job. Looks amazing, nice soundtrack and addictive game play. Surprisingly zen until someone ploughs into you! ;)

I like that you have to use the mechanic to start the game - it's little deign features like that that make me really happy!

The real question is: can I get this on my phone!?

Very enjoyable game! Surprisingly hard as well... I think this would be a nice game for touch screens. ^^
I like that you can still watch the chaos after a crash. I would have liked some auto/traffic sounds for the mood.
Very well done!

I love a game with a fun death sequence, and watching all the cars pile-up after you fail is exactly that. Game idea itself isn't the most original, but it does fit the theme extremely well.

Super simple and interesting. completely nailed the theme. Awesome work.

This game is really fun and catchy. Though i'd prefer instead of having to click each car individually, a control for the side of the road where just all cars on the side stop. But that's my only complaint.

Your game is very cool. The kind of game addictive. Very Good job

I'm not going to lie, I scored 1100 and when the first crash happened I laughed out loud, then other cars started to crash and I laughed out loud some more. This went on for about 10 minutes. It got to the point I had tears in my eyes from laughing so much. This was a very satisfying game. As for the gameplay I agree with what most of the other people mentioned. I really enjoyed the music as well.

Great idea , an amazing gestion game for this theme , i like it =).

Great gameplay! I enjoyed a lot (best score: 2700). It's also very funny to see how the road gets crazy when you fail :D

Something to improve would be the score visibility, I didn't notice that it was there until the 3rd play.

Simplistic and easy-to-understand gameplay. wonderful

The music sounds really like traffic jams. Good composition

I was wondering a week ago about if it is possible to make a happy-to-lose game. You did it!

The stress-relaxing when you lose is marvelous

Nice caught of feeling of "slightly annoying"

Great idea, great game. I imagine that this would work great on touch devices.

This game is very fun,and i like the graphics!

that's a lot of ratings o.O
graphics are top and this is a very challanging little game : )

Pretty sure this would make A LOT of money if improved uppon and then put into the android play store

This game fits excellent with the theme!

Fun game, fits the theme very well.

I love the attention to detail in this game, like the destructible street lights, and that there's a massive crash incoming on game over :) Gameplay is simple, but satisfying. Thanks for making this!

Seems weak on the sound side. Music gets a little annoying, in my opinion.

Amazing game!! had a lot of fun playing, one of the best entries for sure!

Very fun game and fits well the theme. I managed to get 3000 points before starting to watch the chain reaction. Collisions and physics are very good.

Great game :)

Very good fit for the theme even though the idea isn't original. I like the details like the smoke coming out of the chimneys... :)
Music fits good, at one point it seemed like the cars started beeping but it was the music. xD
Good job!

Great little game, super innovative in my opinion! Loved the simplicity of the game, could definitely imagine playing this one on my phone on the bus if you ever consider doing a port.

If possible, check out my game I made with a few others, it's a card game with a twist: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/smash-smash-destroy-the-west-jangnanmon

nice concept! very fun and i like the interaction with the environment as well. great job!

A very good game, great idea! simple and fun

Super fun but the audio sounds like you slapping your table.

Simple and Fun. Good Game!

Simple idea that was well executed. Nice job!

This is really cool!
You nailed it.
It is spot on the theme, the gameplay is really interesting and I had a good laugh when the cars started hitting each other when I failed.
Great job!

It's a really great idea matching to this theme. I like the gameplay and enjoy the game. Cheers

really nice game you got here. Good idea that's really well executed.

I like that you took time to make it so the stop ability didn't last forever, because people like me would try to stop every car :D

Really like the idea! Also like the fact that you can continue playing after you failed to see the carnage! :D

Great game. I really love the gameplay and graphics!

If you are interested, please check out my LD40 game [Escape Infection!](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/escape-infection)

Awsome game, really fun :D maybe add some turn system so cars'll be turning on some lines

check also my "Drunken Soviet" https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/drunken-soviet

Simple but very effective ! Its only lacks a bit of "boom" when cars collide to make it a bit more punchy ^^ Really fun though

Whoa!!! Why does this have so many ratings?!?! Geez guys, please spread the work out so that other people have a chance!

I had great fun with it, in my opinion it lacks explosions.

Others' have said it, but mobile! That clicking is a bit uncomfortable. But if I could tap/touch it would probably have me going even more. Aaand I got to 4100 on my first attempt and feel quite proud about it. But something that would be cool around 5k or 10k would be if the amount of cars started to slow down just a little and then when the player is thinking: Pew that was nice to get a breather. Then the camera zooms out and now you've got to manage four intersections!

Slightly annoying, maybe, but only when there are few vehicles on the road ! Very good idea of gameplay, I love the graphics :)

nice little game! i never got very far, it reminds me that i dislike traffic and shouldn't drive, it's too stressful!

Delightfully simple and fun concept!

Good base idea to expand upon. :)

hehe i love this "disaster manager" games :D it always make me angry and delighted at same time :D cool :D

Very addictive gameplay, perfect for the theme. Good work!

Looks good but It glitched out, I was playing for a few seconds and then the game just paused and the music continued I refreshed the page but now it wont load.

Simple, frustrating, but also a buttload of fun! I look forward to seeing this in mobile format in the future :)

This is fun, and frustrating. I love that you can continue after you stop scoring and see everything go haywire. Great mechanic, ramps up nicely, and is deceptively difficult once it gets going. Nice work!

Simple and fun, very polished and well implemented, just great.

Just a typical day on Russian roads. Yeah, that could describe my first attempt. Also my second, third and so on.

The game is well polished and catchy.

Keep up the good work!

Nicely done. The mechanic is very simplistic, but it works really well and is entertaining. The music was a nice touch as well.

One of those games which are like "SHIT WISH I THOUGHT OF THIS"
Pretty much everyone else has suggested what would be cool if you were to keep working on it. If I were to say anything, you should definitely keep working on it! I can see this doing really well.

Very fun to play :) - I would like to have different crash sounds - maybe depending on the power of the impact in terms of volume or just using different sounds randomly

Nice job. Theme is respected, simple and fun to play, good feelings, nice cars and background. In my opinion, sound is a little bit lower than the rest. Also, some juicy effects would have been appreciated at the collisions, but it's already very enjoyable like this! Thank you!

Such an elegant, simple and, above all, FUN game. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Great entry ! The concept is very enjoyable and neatly executed. Being able to choose the difficulty would be a great feature since starting back from the begginning can seem a bit punitive if one juste lost a game with lots of cars. Excellent game overall !

Simple and fun!

Good Job! :thumbsup:

goo stuff

Your games work a lot, and all is pollish!
Youre a great worker! And thk for the liberty of crashing cars at the end!
If you want check our game, we need feedback for the next update : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-darkest-light

Congratz for 300+ ratings.. You deserve it! The game looks beautiful. The idea is very clever! It will look awesome on Android. Keep up the good work!

Fits the theme really well! And gets pretty intense later on.

Awesome concept - great execution, graphics are perfect. i thought the music sounded a little too MIDI-ish for my taste. But you scored really high on the fun meter- especially when the cars pile up after you lose, it's very rewarding to sit and watch.

Awesome game. The crashes are really satisfying, would love to see this developed further with more car types and ways to slow down cars or maybe a large scale simulator where you end up being able to install traffic lights at some points.

Really cool game :D

Very cool game indeed ! I wish there were A LEADERBOARD !!! Would play it for hours x) ... For the challenge !!!
There could be a little work on music and sound-design too ! But since you're all by yourself all is forgiven !
(and yeah, go check our game at : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-darkest-light ;-) )

awesome stuff

Great concept and congratz for 300 ratings :) Definitely fitting the theme 100%!

Very cool!

I really like the art style of the game! Nice to play and gets really hard in the "end". Gratz on so many ratings! :0

Awesome game, really addictive! Would love to see a way of staying in game after first mistake in the follow up version. Definitely needs explosions!

Really easy to figure out how to play and super fun to watch all the cars pile up at the end. Great job! My only suggestion is to make this an actual game on mobile.

Like many already said, it gets rather dull in a while because of lack of variety. But I can see its potential. It would be good if we could stop the whole lane or something. would make things interesting.

Anyways, for a compo game, I like it a lot.

Really good answer to this theme ! Congrats for a 48 hours production ! :thumbsup:

The art style is SO beautiful! love it!

Sweet looking game, and would totally work well on mobile. Might be more interesting with faster escalation (i.e. more fast and furious). Sound FX seem a little out of place, but otherwise great job!

Verry simple gameconcept but works so well. :D My eyes are hurt. I had to focus on so many cars. Was funny.
It would be interesting to see other kinds of vehicles like buses or motorbikes. :D

Tricky game, but the music was driving me mad :-)

Cool little game, super fun game over !

Very Nice!

Simple game, but fits the theme very well. I like also the music. Good job.

Very good entry, that perfectly fit the theme and everything is well done, awesome job! :thumbsup:

Ain't nobody got time for traffic. Letting the chaos loose is very satisfying to watch :smiling_imp: The game is very innovative and applies the theme in a very unexpected way. Great game.

Nice game with simple but fun mechanics. I always liked management games like these. Reminded me of those games where you have to land airplanes safely without crashing.
I think this game will be awesome if you polish it and add more challenging factors to the gameplay. I'd love to see it on mobile once it's polished :)

Super fun game! It is very hard to even stop playing! The graphics are solid and the idea is amazing! Fantastic Job!

Very cool game. I like the simplicity behind it, the graphics are really good and i couldn't find anyting wrong with it . The music is also nice.

fun lil car game!

very fun game

sounds and music are a bit too flat

but v nice gameplay, good job""!="I=1

This is so simple and awesome! Love how unique of a take it is on the theme, and how well the whimsical art and music work together.

The music is a little flat and kind of dissonant, but the gameplay is great!

Great idea, but a bit laggy and the music is a bit irritating

Good little game with great graphics, but unfortunately it takes a while to actually get challenging. Still, congrats and good luck! :D

What does it say about me that my goal was to get as many cars as possible and then watch the domino effect of the crashes? This game is simplicity itself in how it looks and what you have to do, but it's a lot of fun trying to find the best approach to prevent the crashes. It would be greatly enhanced with a few engine noises and, of course, screeching tyres as cars go into skids.

https://youtu.be/6nO1O_MtVWw

neat game! I felt like it'd be useful if there was some UI to help indicate whether cars were imminently on course to crash? also some extra collision noises would be nice! but still, pleasant and consistent graphics! :D nicely done!

Love it!

Cool concept, fits the theme very well. I like the simplicity of the gameplay!

Clever concept that fits the theme, is intuitive and still has depth.
If anything, it lacks in variety, but for a 48 hour jam its still above and beyond. Great job!

Neat concept. The controls seemed a little difficult to manage at first. I think having the option to stop an entire lane by changing a stop light would be easier control, and then maybe have multiple intersections to manage. The models were well done as well as the particle effects.

Really cute game with great presentation. Satisfying to see the destruction when I lost. The pattern of car spawns seemed a bit predictable, but after enough time it's too chaotic to notice.

Simple concept, but brilliantly executed and with lots of potential.

I agree with other comments that it might eventually feel samey (if you manage to keep the pace at controlling the cars), but the core mechanic is effective by itself and it can probably be expanded easily. Also, the defeat sequence is awesome :D

Great entry, congrats!

Needs more stuff happening inbetween. Game feels overly slow-paced (which I can understand if this was intended as this is typical of annoying traffic ;)). Less time between waves perhaps may help with the pacing (optimize it). With a mouse it can be a little hard to click on individual cars (I'm concerned players could easily get carpal tunnel playing this on PC) and it definitely lends itself better to being a mobile game. I would however recommend zooming in a bit on the cars to allow for easier clicking and also faster waves.

This game is alright. The core mechanics seemed pretty polished and worked smoothly. However, I think the game lacked a little bit of variety. I liked your graphics especially the smoke particles from cars. Unfortunately, your UI was bland. The score text especially was hard to read.

Great use of theme also enjoyable gameplay but not as nice as watching symphony of destruction when they crashing each other

Fun game. It's a really good example to follow for compo game : simple, fun. It fits the theme. It deserves a high rank. One thing I didn't like : the music :)

I would love to play this game on the phone/tablet! Imagine being able to touch cars to stop them or making em go. It feels okay with mouse. The idea is fun and great, good feeling. But it can get repetitive. But a really solid entry with nice visuals. The music is alright but can get a bit annoying later on though. Overall, it's one of the best entries in LD. Good job!

Neat little game - I saw on discord you might be expanding this with more vehicles and such, and getting something onto the Google play store. I think that's awesome and has a lot of potential.

I managed to get 1900 points at my best.

Good luck going forward with this!

That became hectic fast

good game

great game and the best part is when it ends.. haha! good job

Music is bit annoying but gameplay is fine. Too slow at beginning.

It is very fun and works really well. As a suggestion I think the gameplay could improve if the cars were more easily visible on the streets.

Graphics, music and sound effects were great. Gameplay was interesting but quickly became overwhelming. Didn't get past 1500 points, but should be able to with some more practice. Well done.

I love the graphics and the effects when they collide. I let it run for minutes and just watched the beautiful collisions :) A very good job here!

Such a clever simple concept, really well executed. Liked how simple the controls were with the stop start but that it worked so well. As others have mentioned I could see this working well on mobile and would be nice with some extra variety. Fun at the ending just watching all the cars keep coming, quite hypnotic.

Great idea! Gets very hard quickly and my brain starts to panic haha. Lovely visuals and design work. Really enjoyed this one. Give it a full release!

Nice simple idea. Could be fun on mobile (although you might run into problems with the size of your finger for hit testing and obscuring what's going on). Needs screenshake and bigger impacts & explosions! Really enjoyed this.

Very fun game. Cars are a bit too small to click when not in fullscreen. Well done.

It can get pretty funny seeing what mess you can make after losing. The score was hard to see, so I didn't know at first if there was anything being tracked.

Just sublime. Simple and stylish!

I feel like this idea might carry the game to the top: It's simple, seems easy to implement and works just so well that you didn't have to add any additional features to make it fun. Choice of name was also masterful. Since you have way too many comments, I'll make short summary:

SHORT SUMMARY:
+ Easy to learn, fun, replayable, great name
- Easy ~10 seconds after restart when mastered

A really interesting idea, and well executed, but the real appeal of this game to me are the gorgeous low-poly graphics and just perfect traffic themed music.

Why even play this game, when you can just look at the mass collisions in the respawn screen? :D

This just works so well. The gameplay is simple and accessible, while the graphics and audio just fit nicely! Great job!

Finally, a game that has made good use of the theme. This is an awesome game and just a fun sensory experience. Additionally, I feel like it teaches us a lesson, a lesson I find myself learning over and over again with every jam I participate in. Simplicity can be the key to making an an incredible game.I could say more of course, but I am sure anything I add at this point has already been said and probably expressed better than I would myself. [Imaginary handshake]

Amazing

I actually found myself playing this game for quite a while. The concept is simple, but incredibly addicting. Even after I was done playing, I actually sat there for a moment and just watched the cars pile up. I kind of want a screen saver version of this game. The small details (ex. destructible light poles) are pretty sweet, it is obvious that you put a lot of effort into this.

This is a really cool concept. There's more to it than just stopping and starting; you have to pay attention to acceleration time as well. Often the most efficient way to deal with traffic was to quickly double click a car to only cancel it's momentum instead of stopping and waiting. I could see this being turned into a full game with the addition of different vehicle types (semis and motorcycles, different acceleration times and sizes) and lanes (one-way, two-way, multi-lane highways). Honestly I think this could be a really successful mobile game; tapping vehicles would be easier than clicking on them.

Awesome game. Really liked the music, though the car collision sounds could do with a bit of work. The graphics were really nice, and the controls were very easy to understand.

the crashing sound :D but seriously it is more fun colliding than making fluid traffic, so cool that I can keep on playing after I "lost"

A lovely Game. It is simple and fits the theme perfectly. The tutorial/restart with the first car is a nice idea. The game is extremly easy to understand and makes a lot of fun. it gets the most out of this one mechanic. The physics after a crash are funny, too!

Don't totally understand why this has so many ratings. I had fun for a short amount of time, but the game is just missing so much. The graphics are pretty great, but the concept is just boring after a while. This game needs more content, and a better collision sound. I got a little laugh watching the cars slam into each other after the game ended, though. Good job!

Very funny game, but the best part is after the game ended :) (maybe there could be 3 lives for the game itself in the future?)

Some people complained that there isn't any score, but look at the top screenshot, there is a "0" above the "click on a car to stop or start it" instructions.

@gris, you complained that the music was too quiet, but it was already quite loud at my computer's lower volume setting. Presumably you've tried increasing your computer's volume, so are you saying that the music is too loud _relative_ to the sound effects? The sound effects indeed seem louder than the music, but that's how I like it at least. I guess that's why games have independent music and sound effect sliders! I wouldn't expect an LD game to have that level of configurability though.

Some people complained that the game's difficulty should ramp up more quickly, but I guess they must be very good at this game already; I played a couple of times and I still find the difficulty to ramp up quite quickly. Maybe a difficulty setting would help?

Finally, the biggest missing feature in my opinion is a pause button, as I had to make a difficult decision: I could go check why my cat is meowing right now, but all my hard work keeping this intersection safe will be in vain! Thankfully the game is very hard so my cat didn't have to wait very long :)

Awesome idea! I especially enjoyed that after seeing the screenshot and clicking for the first time, it became immediately clear what this game is all about.

It was great fun to play and I can't wait to show this do my daughter, she will love it.

Some criticism:

For my taste the difficulty ramp up could be a bit steeper to have a more satisfying replay. I believe the longer the player has to wait for the game to reach core difficulty, the less likely they will restart the game.

Unfortunately the game is pretty much over after the first crash. I found the game appealing especially because the screenshot promised all this mayhem during gameplay, but when I actually played the game I realized that the really fun part only comes when the game is over.

This is all well and good (Super Meat Boy did something similar with their replay mechanic after the level was done), but I wished that the player got rewarded for playing well, so that the amount of traffic chaos after play was somehow tied to how long you played (maybe stop spawning new cars on a crash so that the crash only gets as large as the amount of cars which is directly tied to how long you have played). I get that you can let the game run and you can even interact with it after the first crash, but it is not really a reward, because it's always the same.

Maybe you can keep working on it a bit more and make the crash chaos more part of the actual gameplay instead of an afterthought because I think this mechanic makes the whole thing so attractive and fun.

Overall congratulations to an brilliant concept and a solid execution.

I don't know what to say that hasn't been said. I'm impressed. 48 hours to make this game, that's crazy! The idea, the graphics, the atmosphere, I can't find anything to blame him :) Well, I confess that I also spent a lot of time after the end watching cars crash :p That's where I saw that the smallest details had been thought out, with the lampposts crumbling.

Great idea! I think you could have made it better by making the player click on the lanes with a traffic light showing red when the cars can not go through, even sometimes causing traffic jams.

Fun, great idea, very good artwork and overall solid entry! Looking forward to Post-LD version :)

P.S. I've made a prototype with similar mechanics once, but never managed to make it fun. It seems you beat me to it, congratulations! :)

lol very simple concept, but the art and physics execution feels spot on. I had a hard time getting into the main game simply based on it was going simply too slow. Once the game was over and everything flying around, that was really interesting. XD why couldn't i crash through that! xD

The concept is quite good and I enjoyed playing it. I liked the fact that at the start, you think you can handle it but a minute later, cars are crashing into each other. Great game overall.

Stupid traffic! Learn to drive people :P - lol

Quite cohesive, as a minor criticism on the UI: it's a shame the score counter basically blends into the background though so it's quite difficult to see your score at all!

Other than that, it's a charming game which is so easy to pick up! (though it was ironic that initially, most of the "fun" came out of seeing the car crashes pile up after you'd actually.. lost)

Great work :)

Great simple game! Of course, there are some minor improvements that could be made but for a compo game it is really nice!

Great game !! I like how intuitive it is. The honks, not so much.
I have just one suggestion to make this game a bit more competitive : every car may have a letter on it, and that would be the key on the keyboard to start or stop that car.
Also a little bullet-time bonus that could be activated for a few seconds would be great !