Speed Thrasher
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| In this free arcade game, you're a wild SKATEBOARD PUNK hitched to the back of a HOT ROD, performing tricks at dangerous speeds! Speed Thrasher Download Page   |
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| what an odd game.... do you control the car or the skateboard? |
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| I'll try it out. |
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| Very neat little game, you control the car. Police always gets me!!! |
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| What do cakes have to do with extreme skateboarding!? :/ |
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| Everything. |
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| What do cakes have to do with extreme skateboarding? Is that a rhetorical question? |
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| No. Maybe skateboarding's changed since I last did it but I'm pretty sure cakes didn't used to play a significant role. :P |
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| It's probably is "skate lingo" for "how many times you have to die until you are actually dead" |
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| Hi Folks, Possibly along the lines of 'That trick was so hardcore, I laid a chocolate eclair in me boxers!' Later, Jes |
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| Ha, downloading -- I love those Spy Hunter/APB-style graphics! |
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| Interesting how much the grass blurs between 100 and 113 mph... |
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| It's a good laugh |
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| Yeah, good fun. |
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| Super idea: so much better than just a car |
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| Cool little concept dat! |
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| Thanks for the comments guys. :) I just updated the game to make it shorter -- from 3 minutes to 2 minutes, which keeps the variety better, from start to finish. You also don't have to go as far to escape the cops. Agent4125 |
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| Wow this is really addictive. You should add in online high scores. Good stuff |
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| I like it ! Joystick suport ?? |
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| This game is great! I'm not. :( I've always got my guy swinging the wrong way. It's hilarious, too! ...hey, is that cake? |
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| I've ironed out the final bugs and have just released v1.0 Thanks to everyone for your feedback =) (I added Joystick support, Reno) |
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| I get a Memory Access Violation the moment the skateboard skates over one of the "skate here" regions behind another car. |
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| Works fine here... This game is bonkers... I like it! I would prefer if the skater movement actually had something to do with how you move your car rather than just sliding left and right though. |
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| *bart simpson voice* Wo hohohowwww, coool! bloody great mate! |
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| Great ! You add a lot of little things :) Better with the joystick, but my hi-score is lost now :( Rob > you can stop the kid sliding by drive him in the grass... it's my technic. Nice tunes too ! One question, what's the golden thing do for the car ?? |
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| Wow, you actually got the Golden Muffler! =) Doesn't do anything actually, though I thought of having it raise the minimum speed. It just gives you a large bonus and a neat looking graphic. Matty, when you jump a car for the first time, the game is supposed to write a small data file to turn off the "skate here" sign. Might there be something with your file permissions or security settings that would prevent this? Or does the MAV happen after a couple of jumps? I can't quite reproduce the problem. |
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| The MAV happens after the first jump. I don't think I have any security settings that should affect this? I am running Windows 98SE if that is any help. It is being played on my D: drive. |
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| Ok, I just updated the game again. -- Added minor scoring for picking up boost arrows and crashing into beer trucks -- When picking up the Golden Muffler, your minimum speed will increase from 50 MPH to 60 MPH (and an extra 10 MPH if you pick it up while going 100 MPH) -- Created default data files, which hopefully fixes the problem that you're running into, Matty. -- Added you all to the Acknowledgements page. =) Réno, you can copy the hiscore.dat file over if you don't want to update and keep your top score Thanks again to everyone! Agent 4125 |
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| Works fine now, no crashes. I like the message that gets displayed when you have a run in with "THE LAW". |
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| Wow. A very simple concept well produced. Addictive. One thing; the cops always get me, and I don't think the player is allowed much time to get away from them. And...the penalty is quite high. Can't you let the cops arrest the player and substract an amount of score? And if the score is < 0, the player loses? |
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| Thanks Jeroen. My intent was to create a short game where you are guaranteed to play it at least for a couple of minutes (hence no death) but not much longer than that. When time runs out and the cops chase you, the game ends either by them catching you or by you escaping. If I were to just penalize the score, the game could potentially go on forever and the player would drop out after getting bored. I agree that the cop may be too hard to escape from, though. The trick is to use passing cars as shields, since the cop will run into these and slow down. I think I escape 3 out of every 4 times. |
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| Heh, I've never escaped. But I did get the cops to go offscreen once. They came right back, though. :) |
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| It's excellent! I like the idea of a game that only lasts a few minutes, and you just try for better scores. |
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| Sweet game. Nice concept and main characters are sytlistic. It's one of those games that requires technique to get the best out of the game and therefore it becomes very addictive. Catchy in-game music. Top drawer stuff Agent! |
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| Nice game. If you want to optimse the package a bit: Convert your BMP fonts to PNG UPX the exe. Will save quite some bandwith and help modem users a lot! |
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| wow, that is a really addictive game! |
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| I just released v1.02: -- Added a "Distance to Escape" progress bar so you know how close you are to winning -- Misc cosmetic improvements -- Converted BMP images to PNG; this doesn't really have an effect on the zip size, but it takes up 1MB less in drive space, FWIW Thanks to everyone who's commented since the last update! Agent4125 |
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| Hi Agent: Uploaded v1.02 (Perfectionist): - Upxed the exe - Optimised all gfxs Saves about 300kb for the zip + 1,1 MB HDD space! http://legion.gibbering.net/grisu/thrasher_new.zip (1.4 MB) |
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| I'm getting a "Page Not Found" error from that link. Can you repost? Thanks for your interest in optimising this; I'm not familiar with UPX, but I'll check it out. |
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| Try this: http://legion.gibbering.net/grisu/thrasher_new.zip (1.4 MB) Can you send me an empty e-mail? Will submit the file to you then... |
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| This is really good :-) I'll be playing it for a while! |
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| cool;) L8r, |
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| Can I delete my Zip, Agent? |
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| Yep I got it, Grisu, sorry for not replying. And thanks again. =) |
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| I love this game so much! I got it a while ago and I am still playing it. My hi-score is 5126! |
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| oki doki & np! |
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| Updated to v1.03 with optimized graphics and executable. Glad you dig it, Clown Hunter. My high score is in the 8000's. I figure 10,000 is about the highest you can get if you really nail all the bonuses and are always going at least 100 mph. |
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| 8000??? How did you get that??? I barely got 5126! |
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| 7240 without escaping the cops here !! Clap, clap, clap... "thanks, thanks..." :) |
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| I think the key is to ram the Beer trucks, and hit as many jumps as you can while going over 100 MPH, since they give you triple score (300+ points each). My new high score is 9154! (updated to v1.04 to fix a screenshot bug) |
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| Cheaters. Well I got 12836! :) |
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| Arggg !!! |
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| Oh, new hi-score 5,782,937,587,381,947, beat that Agent4125! |
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| Ha Ha! Very cool game, good job agent4125... |
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