Before computers, before phones, before the telegraph...people used to leave marks on sheets of wood-pulp and pass them around to their friends. Then they found the gold.

A courageous, enterprising few took it upon themselves to brave the dangerous, wide swaths of land between towns in across early America.

They called themselves the Pony Express, and you...are one of their horses.

===

You win by delivering all packages on the map to their destinations.
You lose by running out of health.

Each path between towns has a duration and a treachery rating (indicated by the hourglass and stars respectively). The longer the duration and the higher the treachery rating, the more likely it is that something bad happens to you.

Also, your jockey is invisible because we didn't have time. Also, it probably is inaccurate to call him a jockey but I mean. You're a horse. How are you supposed to know what the right word is.

NOTE: If, for some reason, you're having issues with game state, or if we push a bugfix and your version is out of date, visit https://makerslocal.github.io/LudumDare36/clear and it'll generate a totally blank game for you. Or you could just lose. Up to you. :P (Technically winning also counts.)

NOTE'S NOTE: If you want it fullscreen on Android, add it to your Home screen and go into landscape.