This probably makes me terrible but when I realized what this game was about I thought that it'd probably be more compelling if it were a person on a wheelchair instead of a tire. It'd add a human element and give players a motivation not to let them fall in the water (since it'd be a person dying and not just a tire). Tires also float I believe, so would it really be so bad if a tire fell in the water?
Funny that you say that. I was actually going to take the character from my other game,
Diver, and have him be in a wheel chair on the log. If you ever played Diver, you'd see it makes perfect sense for him to be in a wheel chair. :-)
I decided not to do it because this was really just meant to be a quick game in between the other games I'm developing. I didn't want to put anymore time into it.
Part of me wishes now I had, but then again I'm glad to have moved on to my next game which interests me a lot more.