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SkiFree in the Browser
- jggonz 14y agoOoh, I loved this game!
- silverlight 14y agoPlayed just to confirm that the yeti ate me :-D. Good times!
- basicallydan 14y agoHaha! Glad you enjoyed that experience. It was one of the first big things I did :P
- Yoni1 14y agohttp://xkcd.com/667/ http://xkcd.com/667/
- mikesmullin3 14y agohey he doesn't do tricks and he doesn't get fully eaten by the yeti
- basicallydan 14y agoNope, not yet. He has five lives because I haven't quite worked out the difficulty of the Yeti yet. Tricks will happen, too, eventually :)
- Filligree 14y agoYou're also missing the "speed up to escape the yeti" binding. ;)
- basicallydan 14y agoThe "F" key should work :) but it doesn't last forever, I put a limit on it.
- verisimilitude 14y agore: tricks; thank goodness! The first thing I did in the air off a jump was try to do a bunch of backflips. Looking forward to that being added.
- joe8756438 14y agoexactly what i did. can't wait for the flips. nice work!!
- lowglow 14y agoConfirms that I'm still terrible at this game over 20 years later.
- twodayslate 14y agoWasn't this posted a couple weeks ago?
- basicallydan 14y agoYou may be thinking of my submission to /r/webdev on reddit?
- twodayslate 14y agoAh. Probably. I am so used to getting all my original content from HN :P Sorry!
- the-come-ons 14y agoThis is great. I miss the pooping dog though. :)
- basicallydan 14y agoHahaha! I will get on it!
- ComputerGuru 14y agoTime to make it an MMO with websockets.
- networked 14y agoJoking aside, it could be useful to implement ghosts [1]. You'd have to have non-random (fixed seed) tracks for this, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_%28video_gaming%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_%28video_gaming%29
- basicallydan 14y agoOh my god that is an amazing idea. What a perfect excuse to learn how to implement another classic racing game feature. Thanks!
- shousper 14y ago+1 !! Honestly, this could be really cool!
- basicallydan 14y agoIt's in the long list of awesome features :D it actually wouldn't be too hard. I suspect the hardest part would be making the après-ski experience realistic ;)
- d0m 14y agoI swear this game is better than most of the game I've played this and last year. Graphics aren't everything.
- networked 14y agoNice. I expect SkiFree to finally get a modder community after you complete this version. :-) Unfortunately, the player's movement seems to come to a halt every 14-15 m or so in Firefox 18.0.2 on Linux x86_64. That is not the case in Chromium 24.0.1312.56 on the same platform. Edit: there are also visible lines over and under the tall fir trees in Firefox: http://imgur.com/3wnXSqs http://imgur.com/3wnXSqs.
- basicallydan 14y agoBrilliant feedback thank you :) I get the same line issue in Mobile Safari but can't work out why without setting up debugging tools so maybe solving the issue in Firefox will help.
- nextstep 14y agoAmazing! Works super well on Mobile Safari and it has the yeti attack at the end!
- 3327 14y agoamazing finally! you could do tricks though in the original one maybe an addition to patch on the following release ?
- enneff 14y agoThe controls are wrong, too. Left and right should rotate the character, but right now they make him turn hard left and hard right. In the original there were also two degrees of left and right turning, so you could navigate with more precision. You could also turn fully horizontal and then use the up arrow to climb the hill sideways. Please fix this! :-)
- basicallydan 14y agoUnless someone beats me to it I will do this next time I make any changes. The great thing about feedback like this is that I get to find out what peoples' favourite missing feature or bug are, so thanks :)
- CoryG89 14y agoAwesome! Just got transported back to my parents living room on Windows 95. And yes, I still suck at this game.
- h4pless 14y agoJust realized you have to run the yeti into trees to keep them from eating you... Feels like a good moment for a facepalm.
- tlrobinson 14y agohttp://xkcd.com/667/ http://xkcd.com/667/
- basicallydan 14y agoHaha! This wasn't a feature in the I original but I thought it might add some balance to my version which was lacking some features which are useful for accruing points!
- bdg 14y ago:( The controls aren't the same. I want to make him walk up forever really really slowly.
- NamTaf 14y agoI noticed this too. In the original, the left and right arrows rotated you. In this, they correspond to 'face left' and 'face right' respectively. The difference is, in the original if you were facing left and hit the right arrow, you'd rotate one position to the right. This would put you as facing down again. In this, if you're facing left and hit right, you immediately face right. To face down you have to press down. It's still confusing my muscle memory :(
- basicallydan 14y agoSorry guys, I'll get to it when I can :) if you fancy helping out and beating me to it you're more than welcome to do a pull request!
- basicallydan 14y agoSorry guys, I'll get to it when I can :) if you fancy helping out and beating me to it you're more than welcome to do a pull request!
- winestock 14y agoTwenty-nine comments and no one has posted the site of the author of the original SkiFree? http://ski.ihoc.net/ http://ski.ihoc.net/ SkiFree was originally written for VAX/VMS on VT100 terminals. Scroll down that page to see a small animated GIF showing where abominable snow monsters come from.
- kenrikm 14y agoWow this really brings me back, what was the name of the game with the bow and arrows? that was another favorite of mine "back in the day" Thanks for making this!
- basicallydan 14y agoIt was absolutely my pleasure :) Was that bow and game one of those games where you defends against each other from either side of a valley?
- fratis 14y agoI think I remember what you're talking about (pretty sure it was just called Bow and Arrow) and I think this is it: http://www.download-central.ws/Win16/Games/B/Bow-and-Arrow/ http://www.download-central.ws/Win16/Games/B/Bow-and-Arrow/
- basicallydan 14y agoThanks for posting this :) it's interesting - Pirih has put he original game up for download as well as far more media one would expect. Great site. I hope he notices my port, it soils be amazing to get his feedback :)
- dereferenced 14y agoSome differences from the original: 1.) You can't press right twice to stop, then up repeatedly to climb. 2.) You can't press various arrow keys after jumping to do a trick pose that gives you extra points. 3.) There's only 1 degree of 'turning right', not two. Same w/ left.
- the_cat_kittles 14y ago4) There aren't those rock/?? things that when you hit turn into mushrooms/tombstones/??
- ygra 14y ago5) There are no bare trees that catch fire when you hit them in flight. 6) You cannot jump by clicking the mouse.
- basicallydan 14y agoHey! Thanks for the feedback. Right you are for 1 and 2 - maybe I will get around to implementing these :) but as for 3, try using the mouse. Movement is still a bit funny, and could do with some improvement so I might do that next. Thanks again! Naturally, I encourage you to contribute with code if you are that way inclined :)
- pserwylo 14y agoAlso, there was a bug (feature?) in the win 3.1 version where if you sat yourself under a seat, and then held the up arrow to slowly go up at the same time as the lift, and your score would rocket up by the 1000s. We used it to increase the high score on our primary school computers from a measly 11 to several tens of thousands in a couple of minutes. Otherwise, pretty darn faithful recreation, great job!
- basicallydan 14y agoIf you haven't tried this in mobile Safari or Chrome yet please do, it works surprisingly well!
- chrismorgan 14y agoI'm glad the yeti has taste. It's not interested in snowboarders.
- basicallydan 14y agoHahah! Maybe the Yeti is trying to clean up the slopes though, eh? ;)
- basicallydan 14y agoHahah! Maybe the Yeti is trying to clean up the slopes though, eh? ;)
- bromagosa 14y agoIt's amazing how something as funny and non-scary as this monster could scare the hell out of me when I was a kid... I remember myself playing and almost getting a heart attack every time the monster showed up.
- jbrooksuk 14y agoI love it. This game brings back so many memories for me! As it's written in JavaScript, I intend to take it, add some realtime players via Node.js and get this up and running. So much fun for a side project and with a great starting point!
- pehrlich 14y agoDamn, I'm itching for pressure-sensitive arrow keys.
- shocks 14y agoI don't remember the controls being like this. The controls here seem far less intuitive.
- guru_shastry 14y agoYour next project - Elasto Mania in the browser!
- xlevus 14y agoIf you crash when the yeti is chasing you, the yeti disappears.
- kungfooey 14y agoNow if we could just get a JS version of the Johnny Castaway screensaver, reliving my youth would be quite possible.