Loopomotive

Loopomotive, hiç durmayan bir döngüye sıkışmış bir treni sürdüğünüz kısa, gündelik bir tren hayatta kalma oyunudur! Treni hızlandırabilir veya yavaşlatabilirsiniz ama asla durduramazsınız. Seviyeleri tamamlamak için kazalardan kaçının!

Loopomotive is an unusual mobile app tier 2D hybrid of an endless runner/reflex/QTE style game where you control a simple/minimalist train on a looped track that passes multiple traffic crossings, in a bizarre, dystopian society where they force sloths to drive the trains, and they never got around to inventing level crossing guards. You can speed up and slow down the train, and there's an emergency brake (on a timer) that slows you down substantially (but the train cannot stop). You have to survive as long as possible without causing a crash... either from you running into a car at a crossing, or a car hitting your train as you pass a crossing (so you might want to speed up if your train is too long!). The concept is fairly unique, but the implementation and depth of gameplay are not quite up to scratch for PC. It really feels like this was designed to be a mobile app, but possibly wasn't accepted by Google or Apple for their mobile phone app stores. Surprisingly, you can change the resolution, but with 2D graphics this just scales up the vector graphics. The minimalist 2D graphics aren't going to appeal to serious PC gamers, but they are a million times better than 2D pixel "art", the crutch for failed developers who can't do their own art so just use pixel art because it's all they can do, in the hopes people will mistake incompetence for an appeal to nostalgia... I'm not sure how that makes obsolete graphics more acceptable to PC gamers. But I digress, it's just worth mentioning that Loopomotive demonstrates admirably that there's just no justification for lazy pixel art, so kudos to the developers for that. The game is completely free. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. This is certainly a gesture that shows dedication to the gaming industry. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. There's no "maybe" option in Steam, unfortunately, but I hope to see more work from this developer, perhaps as part of a professional game development company that can make full use of their talents without needing to make budget/quality compromises. I think it would be a good idea if Loopomotive was published on the app stores it seems to be designed for, so the developer can reach a more appropriate target audience, and even get paid for their game through advertising revenue from the adverts that mobile gamers enjoy looking at.