Inland Revenue

Have you ever wondered what it is like to drive a red cuboid with an engine through a series of predefined gates whilst collecting gold which is laying on the ground? Neither have I, but I decided to make a game where you do just that. 

Inland Revenue is a fast-paced cuboid-car game that requires you to remember a sequence of gates, and then proceed to drive through them in order. One wrong mistake and it’s GAME O… well, actually, you lose a life, but when you have lost all of your lives, it's GAME OVER! It is like the good old days of arcade gaming when you couldn’t just quick-save a game and come back to it later. No, you had to start all over again. 

On the upside, Inland Revenue has gold! You can collect the gold and after you have collected a certain number of gold (10,  25, 50, 100, 200), you gain an extra life.

On the downside, the gold is not always placed in convenient places and may also mislead you into driving through the wrong gate, so watch out. The only thing you can trust is your memory. (<- Look, I mentioned the theme!) There are also barriers in the later levels which you will have to avoid. 

That is pretty much it. 20 levels, each with a unique combination of instructions to remember and about 212 gold blocks to collect.

Inland Revenue was created in about 9 days for the OLC CodeJam 2023. It was made in the C programming language (which is 51 years old now!) with help from the raylib library for doing all of the tedious low level stuff that would take me a little more than 9 months I should think? I created the audio and textures in the 9 days of development.

Controls

Move Left: <Left Arrow> OR <A>

Move Right: <Right Arrow> OR <D>

Pause: Escape

You can navigate through the menus using <TAB> for forward or the left and right arrows to go either way. <Enter> will select the button that is hovered. You can also use the mouse if you are so inclined. 

Check if you can 86mb of RAM lying around, because that is how much you need. We are really pushing the boundaries of computer memory with this one.