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Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser

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115 points nightowl_games | 1 comments | 23 Nov 24 17:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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jebarker ◴[24 Nov 24 02:19 UTC] No.42225479[source]▶
Definitely captures the feel of a ski resort. I really like the feel of controlling the skier too. Performance on my iPad was great in Safari. Nice job so far.
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1. nightowl_games ◴[24 Nov 24 02:40 UTC] No.42225552[source]▶
Thank you. 'The feel of a mountain' is what I wanted. "make your own fun"... I'm a performance guy, this game has been optimized to run on old Android phones at 60fps on the web. It absolutely flies on a desktop PC or native mobile, like 1ms for the entire frame.

I think I could add a lot more 'life' to the mountain by going really far with the bot skier AI. Like having them queue up to get on the chairlift, and avoid/flock with each other.

Means a lot to me that you like the feel of the skier. I am the kind of gamedev that will spend an entire week tuning the friction of various mechanics, and I have a huge amount of taste on how things like 'max speed', friction & turning should be done. I've built this taste up over 10 years of making games, and I think I've got good taste, but it still feels great to have someone validate that.