Show HN: Pseudo3d old school racing game made with pure JavaScript

#1

Post by wagnerandrade » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 2:39 AM UTC

Show HN: Pseudo3d old school racing game made with pure JavaScript
wagnerandrade.github.io

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#2

Post by leeoniya » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 5:18 AM UTC

also, http://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/778

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#3

Post by wereHamster » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 5:20 AM UTC

Doesn't load for me:

    [blocked] The page at 'https://wagnerandrade.github.io/old-school-racing/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://github.com/wagnerandrade/old-school-racing/releases/download/0.0.1/old-school-racing.js': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
 wagnerandrade.github.io/:1
    Uncaught ReferenceError: Track is not defined (index):32

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#4

Post by TD-Linux » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 5:35 AM UTC

wereHamster wrote: post #3

Doesn't load for me: [blocked] The page at 'https://wagnerandrade.github.io/old-school-racing/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://github.com/wagnerandrade/old-school-racing/releases/download/0.0.1/old-school-racing.js': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS. wagnerandrade.github.io/:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: Track is not defined (index):32

Load it with normal http, not https.

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#5

Post by ggambetta » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 5:38 AM UTC

Very nicely done! I love these kinds of hacks :)

A small suggestion - can you make the camera smoother? It's a bit jarring when it's going right and it suddenly starts going left.

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#6

Post by mfkp » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 5:43 AM UTC

wereHamster wrote: post #3

Doesn't load for me: [blocked] The page at 'https://wagnerandrade.github.io/old-school-racing/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://github.com/wagnerandrade/old-school-racing/releases/download/0.0.1/old-school-racing.js': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS. wagnerandrade.github.io/:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: Track is not defined (index):32

Same for me with the HTTPS Everywhere extension. Just click "load unsafe script" and it will work.

Note to author, use a protocol-independent script tag, e.g. //github.com/wagnerandrade/old-school-racing/releases/download/0.0.1/old-school-racing.js

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#7

Post by granttimmerman » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 6:27 AM UTC

I love being able to drive in reverse at 300km/h.

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#8

Post by chipsy » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 6:53 AM UTC

It runs very slowly for me, but the render quality is also very good for a road engine. I don't think I've seen one that shows such an enormous draw distance before.

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#9

Post by rangibaby » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 6:56 AM UTC

granttimmerman wrote: post #7

I love being able to drive in reverse at 300km/h.

This is a feature of Big Rigs, the "Best game ever."

http://youtu.be/sVREUuuNIgg

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#10

Post by chms » Mon, Aug 18, 2014, 7:01 AM UTC

Very nice, but please don't rely on keys like 'y' being on a certain position on the keyboard – on my German keyboard, for example, it's where the US's 'z' is. Other keyboard layouts are even more different.

If you can't access the physical layout of your keyboard (and using javascript, I'm not sure you can), using the arrow keys for all navigational things is really the best option.