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Re: OpenRoads

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Post by eCa » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:32 PM UTC

scuba7183 wrote: post #6

chm wrote: post #4

It's relatively unplayable on IceWeasel 38.6.1 (Debian). The graphics are flashing on and off.

Same on Firefox 44.0.2 on Win7

Same FF version on win8.1: My car goes full throttle + full turn to the right. Have not yet managed to jump straight (and I can only play Druidia, Road 3).

It works on Chrome on the same computer.

Update: Well, it worked once on Chrome. The next time around the car constantly jumps. Easier to control than full throttle, but not by much.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by viraptor » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

ultramancool wrote: post #13

I think this would make for a great mobile game - not sure if the devs have considered supporting mobile platforms for it, but I can't seem to find anything approaching a good clone on the play store.

I feel these days Distance is a good spiritual successor to Skyroads. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDVxz732rk for trailer) Not on mobile, but maybe one day.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by ultramancool » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 1:18 AM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #22

ultramancool wrote: post #13

I think this would make for a great mobile game - not sure if the devs have considered supporting mobile platforms for it, but I can't seem to find anything approaching a good clone on the play store.

I feel these days Distance is a good spiritual successor to Skyroads. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDVxz732rk for trailer) Not on mobile, but maybe one day.

That does look pretty cool, but sort of loses the feel.

http://www.tastystatic.com/ is a more faithful clone, but also not on mobile.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by nitwit005 » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC

That perspective is quite hard on my eyes for some reason.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by gravitronic » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 2:38 AM UTC

While in university a friend and I dumped the original sky roads levels by dumping the dosbox heap while the game was loaded and reverse engineering the memory map. If i remember correctly we emailed the original devs (who are awesome) and they gave permission for rerelease for the open source remake available at the time.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by flipcoder » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 5:11 AM UTC

ultramancool wrote: post #23

viraptor wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel these days Distance is a good spiritual successor to Skyroads. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDVxz732rk for trailer) Not on mobile, but maybe one day.

That does look pretty cool, but sort of loses the feel. http://www.tastystatic.com/ is a more faithful clone, but also not on mobile.

I recently wrote a small skyroads-inspired game:

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vni52_CKeUg

repo: https://github.com/flipcoder/bouncingship

I'm considering porting it to mobile.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by tuyguntn » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 6:40 AM UTC

Awesome, thanks for game, but I see too much blinking on my Ubuntu 15.04 desktop (firefox 37)

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by journeeman » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 9:04 AM UTC

This just brought back so many memories! Thank you! :-)

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by fungi » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 9:59 AM UTC

chm wrote: post #4

It's relatively unplayable on IceWeasel 38.6.1 (Debian). The graphics are flashing on and off.

Firefox 46.0a2 (2016-03-02) on Arch Linux, Intel Graphics. Runs very well.

Re: OpenRoads

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Post by yason » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 11:45 AM UTC

A bit of gaming history: this is apparently a clone of a game called SkyRoads which Wikipedia claims to be a clone of "Kosmonauts", but that is obviously a clone of a hypnotic space-themed game Trailblazer from the 80's. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXsxd8O7eU for C64. Thus, the question arises: does anyone know if Trailblazer itself is a clone of some other game?