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jessiepp May 27

I made this little game which runs in your browser. It's an arcade-y driving game. The original concept was done by @ZBennoui, but I've completely overhauled it and added lots of features. I'll leave the link below. Here's my best stats:
Game Over
Final score: 414538
Run time: 80:17
Statistics
Average speed: 109 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 692.
Near misses: 84.
Crashes: 4.
Gas tanks collected: 76.
Wrenches collected: 7.
Total power-ups collected: 109.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 15.6%, Rocket 58.7%, Horn ball 25.7%.
Fired 173 horn balls, hitting 121 and missing 52, for an accuracy of 69.9%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 16.
Sink holes traversed: 6.
Hit 64 ramps and missed 14, for an accuracy of 82.1%.
Total air time: 615.7 seconds.
Coins collected: 742.
And the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1r811gkuxbc8qu6jr2dru/BOH-standalone.html?rlkey=wyl99nspge84k18022ruognoz&dl=1

Jonathan May 27

@bscross32 @ZBennoui It's really time you get a page/index where you can throw your shit up, such as the Beam NG mod and this so I don't have to clutter around with the DropBox links of which I can't tell if they change all the time.

bscross32 May 27

@jonathan859 @ZBennoui I'm already paying for Dropbox, I'm not paying for another domain plus VPS. I might have kept my old one if they didn't try to scalp me the second I let it lapse - because I honestly didn't think I'd want it after a year.

bscross32 May 27

@jonathan859 @ZBennoui Oh and also, apparently somehow, hand coding your sites in HTML is a bad bad thing. Everyone wants you to bring in these frameworks and build with those? Why? I've always given away my shit, never sold it, never processsed anyone's data, and my stuff's been geared towards blind people. OK, my sites may look like they're from the 90s, but screen readers navigate them better.

Jonathan May 27

@bscross32 @ZBennoui Huh? I don't know how these topics relate but you do you? I don't know a huge lot of nice frameworks either so what do I care as long as the site works and is accessible?

Pitermach May 27

@bscross32 @jonathan859 @ZBennoui This game's really adicting. Just throw it up on itch.io, it's free and then you don't even need a site, also would give me something more concrete to link for the audiogames monthly digest. The beamng mod is on github so that's already kinda sorted. Github pages would also be an option come to think of it though itch is probbaly the easier and quicker.

bscross32 May 27

@pitermach @jonathan859 @ZBennoui I know how to do github pages, I could probabbly have that up in 5 minutes, where I don't know anything about Itch. IDK, I don't like the production / publication side of this. I don't want to be bound to this project or any other. With me, you get no guarantee. I may never make another build of this, but then again, I might. Then I gotta cook up some license and get all into that. I hate that shit. I want nothing to do with that world.

The BeamNG mod is on GitHub, but honestly, it's a half-ass job as I didn't provide build instructions for one, and I can't upload a release because it's too large. I don't like that, it's sloppy, but my build script relies on things being where they are on my machine and a directory junction existing in the project directory, and I just don't care enough to make it more flexible at the moment.

When I was a kid, you'd just pass shit around on CDs or diskettes or whatever, and there was none of this bullshit. Now, everything you ever put out has to be this top tier professional thing where updates come at regular intervals and I'm just not about that. It'd bea different story if I actually knew what the hell I was doing and was in it for the cash.

Alex Chapman May 28

@bscross32 @pitermach @jonathan859 @ZBennoui Lmao just give it MIT or Unlicense and have done with it lol.

@bscross32 @ZBennoui This is so neat!

@bscross32 @ZBennoui Did you make this using Singen?

bscross32 May 27

@Orinks @ZBennoui yes

@bscross32 @ZBennoui Nice.

Andrew Hodgson May 27

@klittle667 @bscross32 With latest JFW/Edge I can't seem to use the arrow keys to play this game. Not sure if there is something I am missing.

Kieran L May 27

@andrew @bscross32 Not sure. Works with NVDA on chrome in focus mode for me. Even works with my controller, however because the controller presses don't cancel speech events you have to occasionally hit the keyboard to make your speech catch up. I would imagine it's JFW stealing the keyboard again.

bscross32 May 27

@klittle667 @andrew Yeah there's nothing I can do about the controller not cancelling the speech. That's something I've been messing with off and on for a while not just on this project.

Kieran L May 27

@bscross32 Yeah I'm not sure how you'd get round that. Great game though, I love it. @andrew

bscross32 May 27

@klittle667 @andrew I turned Jaws on for 5 minutes to try to see if there's a way to get it to release commands to the page and I now hate my life and have given up. I, J, K and L are definitely doable for alternate bindings though. The game also works with an Xbox controller.

Andrew Hodgson May 27

@bscross32 @klittle667 Yeah working fine with NVDA obviously. Sorry for not trying that earlier.

bscross32 May 27

@andrew @klittle667 All good, it's fine to know that it's not working with Jaws. I honestly didn't give it any thought since it typically does this with games.

Andrew Hodgson May 27

@bscross32 @klittle667 Not sure I should post my stats as I am using my low vision to help me with the game. I had it running for 13 minutes before eventually running out of fuel.

Kieran L May 28

@andrew @bscross32 I so far haven't been able to do anything with the challengers when they appear

bscross32 May 28

@klittle667 @andrew Hit the horn which starts the challenge.

bscross32 May 27

@andrew @klittle667 That's probably just Jaws being Jaws.

@bscross32 @ZBennoui Game Over
Final score: 35614
Run time: 89:20

bscross32 May 29

@Pool @ZBennoui Nice. Mr. Zach needs to get his game up!

Zach Bennoui May 29

@bscross32 @Pool Yeah I suck at driving for obvious reasons.

bscross32 May 29

@ZBennoui @Pool Aww I don't wanna hear no excuses, this game don't require sight.

Zach Bennoui May 29

@bscross32 @Pool Yeah I know but my reaction time could be faster as well.

bscross32 May 29

@ZBennoui @Pool Yeah, if they test you at the doctor's office, they hit your knee with that little mallet and 2 minutes later, there's the faintest of twitches.

Zach Bennoui May 29

@bscross32 @Pool Lol I don't get the point of that test but they never had any problems with me so I guess I did ok.

@ZBennoui @bscross32 do you by any chance plan to add custom engine sounds and synthisize upon it? it'll be really enjoyable to have this little game with much more colors.

bscross32 May 29

@Pool @ZBennoui Possibly, but doing sound design via code is really hard lol.,