henke on 18/10/2017 at 14:40
You can restart the game from the menu with "Restart Journey". If you really wanna delete everything it's saved you'll have to go into the Registry Editor, find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Henrik Hermans\In Search Of Paradise VR" and delete the folder. As you might surmise you can also cheat here by changing the Checkpoint value to something higher.
Also, here's another super-secret cheatcode: Press 9+0 to fastforward time
Just poked around at the game, didn't find any issues related to the acceleration, but I was alarmed to notice that the game starts in the chase cam on the first run. That wasn't intended, especially since you can only turn on the engine from the interior view. Just built and uploaded new versions of the game.
qolelis on 18/10/2017 at 18:00
HELL YEAH! Paradise found!
Sorry about the expletive there, but it was highly warranted this time, because this is the first car game ever that I finish. I even took the shortcut (took a few tries: first time I got caught by nightfall and soon lost my way; second time, I had the daylight on my side, but messed up, because I got too confident; fourth time I had learned the terrain, got lucky, and could almost speed through it (in daylight). I sort of regret now not getting a gamepad earlier, because using one felt a lot easier than using the keyboard for this kind of game.
I don't know what happened at the start, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just my gamepad acting up (it never happened again).
henke on 19/10/2017 at 05:43
Cool! :)
I am wondering if I made the fuel drain too quickly though. That's a value I've been increasing and decreasing all through development, depending on how it felt at the moment.
qolelis on 19/10/2017 at 12:59
I don't have anything to compare with, but, for the task at hand, I think you struck the right balance: knowing that I could run out of fuel, if fooling around too much, added to the challenge in a good way and also added a sense of "danger". It also made me try to drive smart, like taking advantage of downslopes (I assume no fuel is being used when coasting, or keeping an eye on the rpm meter (in case I use more fuel the higher the rpm (or making it jump too much)?)). Ähum, look at me: I've beaten one racing game and now I think can talk the talk and walk the walk. :erg:
The hardest part was the great plains, because the first time I tried, I got struck by temporary blindness and missed the next gas station, but it didn't bother me, because, with the checkpoints in place, it was easy to try again. Actually looking at the map helps too, which I didn't do too much the first time. Someone else might disagree, but I never felt it unfair whenever I ran out of fuel, which I did a few times.
The amount of fuel doesn't allow for exploration (are there any sidequests, though?) or just fooling around, like maybe finding ramps, to get a bit of air time, like I did a lot in A Good One, but maybe you could add a "free roaming" mode (with more or infinite fuel) after the player has beaten the game!? A crazy/stupid idea I had while playing, and crushing those poor cacti (nice little detail, by the way), was that maybe the player could, as a sidequest, collect cactus parts, find some hermit in the mountains, and exchange the cactus parts for more fuel -- or maybe the hermit had the ability to make fuel out of them.
