💚☯️Hello, this is Sparrow Lynn, and I am pleased to present Interstellar Roundabout. Our team have been gaming together for years on both tabletop and PC--figrita and mountaindog have teamed up before to bring Prison Cat to Ludum Dare 41--and putting our heads together for this felt natural! Our submission is a conglomerate of a few ideas from our first meeting, which came together thematically when we reminded ourselves of the Griswold family in European Vacation.☯️💚

"It's amazing, I cannot get left!"

Interpreting the jam's theme was a fun time in itself:

Game Promo: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/interstellar-roundabout

Welcome to the future, where thanks to the Interstellar Transit Authority, we can now access space colonies via end-to-end wormhole-equipped thruway! But, as always, the crescendo of technological growth has gotten out of control. Inhabiting the roads of the future is the singular collective consciousness of every existing automobile, each one self-driving and fusion powered. Sophisticated, but not unerring, this neural network consciousness seems to routinely jettison its own vehicles at random. Much time has passed, and untold masses of cars now roam planets and cosmos alike in a drone state, destined to constantly reiterate their RAM cache’s trajectory for time unknowable. As one of the consciousness's programs, your network's error has become a hazard, and the most congested wormhole plazas everywhere are closed and gated. With no possible detours for this route, you must navigate these roundabout plazas and open their gates by driving over pressure switches—all while avoiding collision with their mindless inhabitants!

The song that kept us going: https://youtu.be/l8I0n7njFqs

It's a privilege to take part in this awesome community! We look forward to playing your games tonight!