Echo Ride  

Every route you finish comes back to haunt the road.

A fan-made PC recreation of the cult mobile game Does Not Commute by Mediocre.

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🚗 ABOUT THE GAME

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Guide vehicles one by one through a busy town, each to their own destination. Every vehicle you drive leaves a ghost that replays your exact path and becomes an obstacle for every vehicle that follows.

The twist? All vehicles share the same timer. One bad route costs everyone.

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⚙️ FEATURES

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🚗 Cascading ghost traffic system — every past run drives alongside you

⏱️ Shared countdown timer across all vehicles

↩️ Rewind mechanic with time penalty for tactical retries

💨 Arcade drift handling with satisfying drift sound feedback

💥 Collision feedback & screenshake for impactful crashes

🎨 Animated UI with victory and defeat screens

🎮 Keyboard support — QWERTY and AZERTY friendly out of the box

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🎮 CONTROLS

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Action	Keys
Steer left	Q or A or ←
Steer right	D or →
Rewind	R
Pause	Escape

Vehicles accelerate automatically — focus on steering.

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💻 BROWSER COMPATIBILITY

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Recommended : Chrome, Brave, Edge. Firefox may experience rendering issues with this build.

If the screen goes black after exiting fullscreen, refresh the page.

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🎵 SPECIAL THANKS

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A huge shoutout to Mini-Victor (age 6) — official sound designer of this project, who personally voiced every vehicle engine with his mouth. The most dedicated member of the team. 🎤🚗

Special thanks to VenCreations for the amazing asset pack used in this project.

Built as a school project — full recreation of core mechanics including trajectory recording, ghost replay system, shared timer, rewind with penalty, and time bonus pickups.