I'm glad the yeti has taste. It's not interested in snowboarders.
Hahah! Maybe the Yeti is trying to clean up the slopes though, eh? ;)
SkiFree in the Browser
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Re: SkiFree in the Browser
#52I'm glad the yeti has taste. It's not interested in snowboarders.
Hahah! Maybe the Yeti is trying to clean up the slopes though, eh? ;)
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#53I 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!
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#54Damn, I'm itching for pressure-sensitive arrow keys.
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#55Time to make it an MMO with websockets.
It'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 ;)
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#56:( The controls aren't the same. I want to make him walk up forever really really slowly.
I 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 dow…
Sorry 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!
Re: SkiFree in the Browser
#57:( The controls aren't the same. I want to make him walk up forever really really slowly.
I 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 dow…
Sorry 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!
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, not yet. He has five lives because I haven't quite worked out the difficulty of the Yeti yet. Tricks will happen, too, eventually :)
You're also missing the "speed up to escape the yeti" binding. ;)
The "F" key should work :) but it doesn't last forever, I put a limit on it.
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#59Some 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.
Also, 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!
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#60I don't remember the controls being like this. The controls here seem far less intuitive.