Keep Driving... if you can

I'VE often wondered what it would be like to go on a very long road trip.

- Anusha Ganapathi

Those trips where you need to take an entire month off of work, all responsibilities, and the comfort of home. I would meet new people. Explore new terrains. Watch the sunrises and the sunsets, and the stars in clear skies. And maybe... discover myself? It all sounded to me like a wonderful adventure.

So I played "Keep Driving". A management and strategy game where I'm just a dude with a car, with some very real-life events thrown at me as I went about my long long driving trip. I confront the horrors of flat tyres, potholes, hitchhikers - the works.

In a way, even playing this game helped me discover myself. I discovered that I'm the last kind of person who should be doing any sort of cross-country road trip. I discovered that I'm only the kind of person that can play a videogame about driving for a couple of hours on a weekend. It's a brilliant videogame. You should try it too.

So. How does it all start? It's the summer in the early 2000s. There's a music festival happening at the end of this month. You don't have a lot happening in life, and you figured, why not? Why don't you just go on a long drive across the country?