Mario Kart meets Overcooked

Trying to think out these excellent game-feel moments.

Talking this out with greg, it came down to dropping bananas in just the right spot, angling that green shell just right.

It seems about about giving players the opportunity to create a trap - i think we could also focus on the pay off. It'd be fun to watch someone fall into your trap - to see the opponent make choices that you lead them along.

Imagine playing async mario kart, with a group of folks. The matches are a week long, you have to do 5 races, and they're all played async and in specific orders. You try to shoot the leaders (if you're going last) - you try to leave bananas and traps (if you're going first).

The overcooked tie in here was a realization that the overcooked battles that duaa and i do are not that different from tetris. So why not fill in some blocks or toss a bunch of buns on the floor whenever you complete an order? We should be throwing bananas across the way at each other.

We should also see the projected score for each side while playing - what is optimal/estimated? is there enough time to make another burger? That'd give some sense of the shape of the conflict - does it build up in an exciting way, or was it decided a long time ago?

Feels a bit like chess in that way - having a computer that just says, no white is 10 centi-pawns up, the rest is simple enough.

I think we have to take async games to this level - if we don't, there's not much for the mind to do with it.