Feeling a bit of mental friction again with the game project, this time with the story/character/dialogue kind of stuff. The block is that I need a "reason" to progress through the races and worlds, but a lot of the way to sell that in the game is to make animations, music, dialogue, etc.

Basically...I need to inject some more charm into the game. It has some, sure, but it's still very empty feeling. Stuff like actual characters to interact with (outside of karts) and short cutscenes is what it really needs right now, but I'm less confident in those areas currently so I'm somewhat afraid to start working on it.