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New ski game, inspired by the TGR Tracks game

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QuazBotch
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http://www.imakewebsites.ca/flash/flashskigame/

Give'r a go and let me know how it runs. On PC, IE 6 seems faster than Firefox. Can someone on a Mac tell me if it runs smoothly in Safari?

I'm hoping this works well on most people's computers so I can start adding more stuff in.
Jun 12 2008 12:14AM
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Parker.
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i did that a bunch of times, but then i started hold a mute, so if i didn't clear both i'd know.
Jun 21 2008 9:23AM
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alev
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i cant fall doing lincolns, even if i land on my side
Jun 21 2008 9:30AM
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QuazBotch
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Afterbang button? No. I've been considering a claim button though. If you tap it fast enough you'd drop

The one killer feature I wanted to put in is on hold for now, so I'm going to focus on some different stuff. The next version will let you drag cliffs around to change the level, have some effects with snow spraying around, and maybe write what flip/spin you just landed. The skier will be a bit larger. The cliff dragging stuff has changed how I do some collision detection for the cliffs, and that makes the game run a bit better on slower computers.
Jun 21 2008 9:45AM
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QuazBotch
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blah I forget where I was going with the claim button idea.
Jun 21 2008 9:49AM
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Mooose...
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^whatever you do, you have my full trust.
Jun 21 2008 10:06AM
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gordie.
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claim button FTW
Jun 21 2008 10:08AM
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dave44
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the game has come such a long way... +++++karma , 10'd
Jun 21 2008 10:21AM
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3ski6guy0
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its a sick game. my only suggestion is to go back to the random starting. i liked it better
Jun 21 2008 10:26AM
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Octopus
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i agree. cause now if you want to play n the other side of the game you cant just go there. you have to put it at the end of the scree. then fsall etcetc
Jun 21 2008 10:44AM
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currentwestman
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i 3rd that. maybe have the option of both tho? cuz there is times when i what to do something in a particular area/cliff
Jun 21 2008 11:00AM
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zues
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sick game man!
Jun 21 2008 11:17AM
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MANDER
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what was ur karma before you made the game? i bet its doubled
Jun 21 2008 11:38AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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Im just going to point out, the skier has pencil steeze, maybe change that?
Jun 21 2008 12:08PM
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ATLskier
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what's the one killer feature you wanted to do, or is that a surprise or someting?
Jun 21 2008 1:17PM
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QuazBotch
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I'm keeping it a secret for now. I hate it when people hype up stuff that may never happen.
Jun 21 2008 2:10PM
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JGP.
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It would be dope if you could make the skis form a slight "V" when you backflip so it would look more natural and layed out.

The game is sick.
Jun 21 2008 4:05PM
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Jmanski
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that sounds sick JGP... what about if you put all the features and stuff in a "feature bank" and could save your map and post it up on NS? I think that would be sick...
Jun 21 2008 4:10PM
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.Capn.
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Its dope right now so dont add to much stuff or it may lose some of the fun that is in its simplicity. K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Stupid.
Jun 21 2008 4:52PM
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canadianclassic
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Damn this game is fun man, good job. If only EA would make a skiing game with the skate engine and physics, that would be sick.
Jun 21 2008 7:17PM
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dave44
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i agree

Jun 21 2008 7:38PM
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alev
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i stick every lincoln i try, it seems as though u cant fall doing them
Jun 21 2008 8:02PM
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SK1ERDUDE
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I agree to adding points, but i don't like how the guy got smaller. I also thin you should add more grabs and a restart button.
Jun 21 2008 9:16PM
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ButteredToast.
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It's being worked on.
Not by EA, but someone on NS is doing it.
Jun 21 2008 9:23PM
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scott-skis
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such a dope game and so many improvents have been made.  but i agree with the random staring way better
Jun 21 2008 9:28PM
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shea.
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woah woah woah...
more details please!!!

Jun 22 2008 4:20AM
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alpineplease
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im praying for xbox 360 versions
Jun 22 2008 5:34AM
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zesty_buddy
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Dope dope game bro!

i liked the random starting too... maybe if you could have an option of grabs as well, and a restart button... along with what everyone else suggested... also when i do a backy it makes my screen scrolls all the way down to the bottom so I can't see where im going... Maybe there is a way to fix this? I dunno....

Looking forward to the next update! ++k
Jun 22 2008 5:44AM
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anthony_B
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BRING BACK DNA CUSTOM 3
Jun 22 2008 5:50AM
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Faggghkxd
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hey you know there was athread on this like a month ago?
just search for it they had posted a link to download it
Jun 22 2008 12:33PM
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mmallender.
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dont use internet explorer and it wont scroll down when you backflip, or front flip depending on if theres any scrolling up or down to be done. I had the same problem with the computer I use at work (i know, not what iam supposed to be doing) using internet explorer, so i switched to firefox, which in my opinion is a much better browser, and the problem was solved.
Jun 22 2008 3:03PM
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Inbred_Redneck
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claim


I think i just landed a double D-spin.

SUPER CLAIM
Jun 22 2008 3:09PM
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skodeo7
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God I love this game Quaz. Whats going to be updated with the next version? It would be sick if you could be zoomed in a little farther but maybe its just because my resolution is redic (1440x900). Keep up the good work. P.s. its epic to see how many people have ranked your karma 10/10
Jun 22 2008 3:53PM
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mophead
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my threads
dope game. add more grabs and a zoom in/ out tool during game play would be ill.
Jun 22 2008 10:08PM
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QuazBotch
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Lets see if I can cover everything on page 9 in one post.

Yes, you can land lincolns any way you want. I'm still working out the math that checks for crashes on flip/lincoln combinations. 1/2 a lincoln and 1/2 a flip is something you could land. 3/4 of a backflip and 1/4 of a lincoln doesn't equal landing on your feet, so there is more to it than just adding the degrees of rotation on both axis.

For random starting vs choosing where to start, I'm thinking of putting in a starting area you start from a random point inside of. If you make the starting area smaller, it will be like starting at the target. If you make the starting area bigger, it will be much more random. Or maybe just a random start on/off switch. That would be simpler.

For now, you can zoom out and move the starting point all the way across the level at once.

Karma has gone up about 5000.

Yes, the skier has pencil steeze. More variation in stances is way down the todo list. At one point I had it looking over it's left or right shoulder depending on which way it was turning switch, but through some weird ass math the 3D engine does it also flipped all the surfaces on the skier inside out which looks pretty weird.

Level saving is also way down to do list. First I need to get level editing working. I have draggable cliffs working, but is raises other issues like how to move the trees out of the way when a cliff moves, how much control to give vs how complex do I want the editor to be.

EA needs to stop making sequels. I think Enlighter is working on a much larger ski game, but I haven't heard anything about it in a while.

The skier will be larger, but not by much.  He looks really bad up close. His head is a cube, his legs have 3 sides each, and he doesn't have hands. And I don't know how I just assigned him a gender.

The arrow key making browsers scroll is weird, but that's why WASD works for controlling the skier too. The game runs better in IE than Firefox 2 for some reason. Firefox 3 seems better.

DNA Spin.... oh the memories. That really inspired my earlier attempts at doing a ski game.

Next version? I want to do some basic level editing stuff (repositioning the existing cliffs), a better zoom out view, and some snow spraying effects so it really looks like you are riding powder. Probably 3 or 4 days away from covering all that, so I'll do some some smaller in-progress releases to keep people interested.








Jun 22 2008 11:43PM
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Ryno
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Could that not be handled by an arragement of simple IF statements checking for degrees roatated in a given direction (coupled with a list of acceptable ranges for each)?
Jun 23 2008 12:15AM
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QuazBotch
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Probably something like that Ryno. To me, figuring that out isn't as interesting as screwing around with the level design or trying to make the game run faster on a wider variety of computers, so I haven't given it much thought. I don't throw a lot of lincolns when I play, so I don't notice the problem as much as other people do. More people are pointing it out now, so maybe I'll bump it up the todo list.
Jun 23 2008 12:51AM
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nkinsman10
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this thread should be stickied
Jun 23 2008 1:17AM
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Shorton
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i agree
Jun 23 2008 5:50AM
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molzen
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Could you maybe try to do something about the turns... maybe try to make them more like those from tgr tracks, like when you pick up speed and the turns get larger
Jun 23 2008 9:17AM
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niels.
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if you could slide or drift turns thatd be sick too with a lot of speed or something
Jun 23 2008 10:07AM
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conjsports
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What button do I hold for pausing?
Jun 23 2008 1:19PM
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StanMcStanson
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The dash key, next to the plus sign on your keyboard.  And on another note, yay for 2000 posts!
Jun 23 2008 6:00PM
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Ski_Midwest
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you can't
Jun 23 2008 6:26PM
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hurrisun
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there should be like points for how ma
Jun 23 2008 6:47PM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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This thread deserves more than a 2nd page position, BUMP.
Jun 24 2008 8:15AM
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Rogge
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https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/blogs/jid/887/eid/2707/


^there's a cool interview with the creator of the game!
Jun 24 2008 9:16AM
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Deletedtoday
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STICKKKIIIIIEEEEEEE
Jun 24 2008 12:29PM
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.Capn.
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Wait how do you zoom in and out?
Jun 24 2008 2:05PM
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Meases_Pieces
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i have wasted so much time on this game.
if you go all the way to the left you can hit the first cliff and gap the second so you get crazy time to do tricks like
2160's
quadruple lincoln loop 1080's
and other fun stuff
Jun 24 2008 4:31PM
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skodeo7
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You cant actually gap the second cliff, you always just touch down right before it. As far as I know.
Jun 24 2008 5:13PM
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