Thanks for playing, and for the kind words! I just wrote to another commenter below that the particle effects made the biggest difference overall in how the game looks/feels!

I've personally found that the controls aren't the easiest, but once you get to grips with drifting, using the inertia and being able to turn you ship without turning your trajectory, there is some amazing movement tech possible - I'm really wanting to expand + refine this into a little speedrunning game with leaderboards!

As for the track creation, the way I did it was extremely Godot specific (partially because I needed the track to recognise if the player is on it or not, so I have a fairly custom logic for creating and representing the track). If I remember correctly, you mainly use Unity? I'm sure there are good tutorials out there on how to do it for Unity!

If not, in Godot I'm essentially creating a Path2D, which allows me to manually click points on the game screen and Godot will link them together in the order they are created, with the final point closing the loop. I can then create a Line2D which when the level is loaded will take the invisible Path2D's points and visualy represents them as a track.