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jrhollis
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Not sure if it will be allowed on Google Sites, but you can try to insert the iframe code below into your site.
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Thanks for the feedback. I don't have a Linux machine to test on unfortunately... I did test on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge (mac and windows) and it runs at 60fps just fine. And it does replicate the original arcade game play almost to the pixel. (I actually compared frame by frame with a MAME emulator while writing it...).
This was written from scratch in javascript as an academic exercise, so I didn't have the convenience of any canned shaders (for scanlines) like Unity provides, and I did not have a fullscreen itch.io mode in mind either. Putting it on here was an afterthought. Those things might be an idea for if I ever do a re-write, I guess.
This was fun! I think I broke my keyboard. It reminds of the "Wall Bangers" event from "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge". That show was hilarious. Nice work!
Thanks for trying it out! I made a setting under the options menu at the title screen for turning off the poisoning because I kept getting it when I was trying to debug other things. It's a 1/4 chance, but for whatever reason !Math.floor(Math.random() *4) likes to poison me.
I was digging the look of your game (definitely a Megaman thing going on there), but I couldn't get tagging to work. I saw the tip on your game page, but it didn't work for me for whatever reason.
I definitely took some artistic liberty and broke a few Atari "rules" with this one. I played Atari as a kid and brought out a few more last week to get an idea of the look and feel for Atario Kart, and man... you had to have quite the imagination to get a thrill out of video games in the late 1970's / early 1980's.
You did a great job on your racing game, by the way. It's fun! Reminds me of Micro Machines for NES. I LOVED that game.
Thanks! I get the perspective effect using lots of triangle math and ray casting. Think Wolfenstein 3D but sideways. Basically how many of the old console/arcade games did it. I'd release the code (I did for my other games), but this one's a total mess on account of the Game Jam time constraints. If you're curious, I'll give you the code.
Thanks for looking! Yeah... I ran out of time to do too much in the way of A.I. If you're handily beating the computer drivers, you can change the difficulty setting under the options menu at the title screen which makes them faster. You can also take a different driver like Rick or Rilla- who are faster but don't turn as well.