Whiplash: 3D Snowboarding
Author: | yuyu
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Submitted: | 28th January, 2005
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Favourites: | 1 |
Genre: | Sport
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Game of the Week Winner
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Edited By Chris Street / Circy on 1/28/2005
Its finally done
I've wasted a fair chunk of my Summer holidays. It was fun at first but nearer the end all these glitches with MMF made it very hard to get this game done. Its not what I had planned but I think its nearly as good so theres not much point me complaining.
Whiplash is as you've probably already figured out by the name, a 3d snowboarding game. I was gonna just leave it at that but I figured i should make it more involving and interesting so here I am five weeks later with a nice little game.
The snowboarding is at the centre of this game so It had to be more than button mashing and dodging trees.
I did my best to make it interesting with smooth 2 dimension spins, 5 tricks plus special manouvres, ramps and a helicopter that tows you making you go faster and jump higher. The 3d engine is the best I've ever done with Up Down Camera Movement and it looks great. The Snowboarder is definitely a highlight. Never have I seen the 3d Sprite object look so good. It feels really 3d on full detail and plays alot like Tony Hawkes. There is an adrenaline meter, when full it allows you to pull of much crazier stuff like Roastbeefs and Methods. Also by Holding W+S and a direction key you can pull off an extra spin. This allows you to do some very nutter tricks. 1080 + Double Backflip + Method???
It may sound a little complicated right now. Thats what I put the tutorial and help in for.
In the options you can change your boarders skin and change the detail mode. On lowest it looks stupid but I wanted to make this game compatible on most PC's. I also wanted to make it as small as humanly possible and 3meg is very good for a game like this. If I hadnt of used all the External Files it woulda been about 10 meg .
Theres alot more to this game than snowboarding too. Its based around a comp that lasts 5 days (A working week). The scoring is done by the crowd so theres no stupid judges. You have to impress the crowd with big tricks and such. You dont just get their rating by doing well in comps though! theres a bloke called Ernie that lives near the resort and he gives you jobs every now and then like Taking out dero tobogganers or driving a snowball around in your comby van.
So that the game doesnt lose its appeal the first time you finish it I added a nice little trick. Every time you win the game gets harder. You can reset it if you cant be stuffed going for big scores in the options though.
I think I've said everything. Due to the use of external files its also possible to mod the game to some point. Change the skins, trees, ramps, most of the gfx in the game are external BMP's.
Theres also afew nice home made midis (not external) that I made for this game. On the computer I made it they sound really pumpt and good but when I played it on another they sounded really bad. Sorry if your midi player makes them sound bad but its outta my hands so dont complain to me.
Cant think of much else to say apart from that I hope you enjoy this game because Alot of effort went into making it enjoyable. I normally make games to be unique but this ones for you to enjoy
-yuyu
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http://www.sitesled.com/members/amatter/whiplash/whiplash.zip (3mb )
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yuyu
Registered 13/05/2003
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