Pinnock - a pity he can't be executed for his crime

A serial joyrider killed a woman in front of her young son just two weeks after walking free from pleading guilty to another hit and run crash.

Tina Boucher, 38, a mother of four, died instantly in the smash while two other passengers suffered horrendous injuries.

Her son Martin, aged six, was unharmed in the crash, and he sat sobbing "Mummy, Mummy" as the scum in the other car jumped out and ran away.

Joyrider Devon Pinnock was jailed for he pathetic term of eight years yesterday after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving while disqualified.

Pinnock had a string of convictions going back to the age of 14. Two months before the crash which killed Mrs Boucher, he had lost control of a stolen car and ploughed into a parked vehicle. He was banned from driving and given a community order - but failed to carry out a single hour of it.

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This time with sound (soundtrack and soundeffects), levels, and upgrades. Let me know what you think of it!

To survive;

• Stay on the track.
  If not you lose a life. (You start with 3 lifes.)

To earn points;

• Race against traffic.
  In this direction you earn points per distance travelled.
• Avoid collisions.
  Collisions will drag you in the wrong direction.
• Collect points.
  Drive over the dots that appear on the track.

Right now the gameplay only develops when you earn points. Based on your score, more and more enemies are triggered to enter the track and give you a hard time. But I'm pondering how to give the game play more dimensions. Right now I'm thinking in terms of increasing the speed or changing the corner radius of the player and I want to introduce the concept of levels. (Different track shapes, in form and wideness of the road.) But I don't want to make the game to difficult. It's already difficult to survive long. Try to make 4000 points or steer a netto of 10 laps against the traffic. Not so easy! But if you try, be sure to subscribe to Kongregate first, this way you will get your name into the high score table.

Please feel free to leave me suggestions (in the comments or on twitter) to improve JoyRider in the future releases. Here's my list so far of improvements for the next version;

• Sound!
• A pause button.
• Levels.

Let me know what you think of JoyRider!

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