Board4Free.js

I just started work this 3/14/15 and I've not done a whole lot yet. This is a work in progress modification of the JavaScript port of the popular 1991 PC game SkiFree by Chris Pirih.

You can play skifree.js by Dan Hough here (opens a demo page).

Features so far:

• Being a snowboarder instead of a boring old skier.
• Skiing down a never-ending ski slope with randomly-generated trees which do not have transparent backgrounds
• Collision detection with trees - and the appropriate reaction
• Turning left and right
• Stopping
• MONSTAHS! GRAAAAHHH! They even eat you and then run away because they're full
• Distance tracking so you can see how far you've gone you absolute badass
• Speed boost (this was a little-known feature to get away from monsters) using the F key
• MOBILE SUPPORT - This is cool - try loading the the demo page on a mobile device and then use your finger to direct the skier around the pistle. Also try double-tap ;)
• Rainbow jump platforms & jumping - though a couple of improvements could be made
• LocalStorage high-score (thanks, @ddoolin!)
• Custom-sized Hitboxes
• Big trees & crashing into them both whilst boarding and jumping

So, what's left to do?

• Stumps
• Dog
• Ski Lift
• Burning Tree
• Frozen Skier
• Killing Snow Monster
• Slalom Course

Some features which weren't in the original which I'd like to give a go:

• Ability to choose snowboarder or skier.
• Multiplayer (ooooo wouldn't that be fun?!)

Let me play the game goddammit!

Game Controls:

Use the mouse, arrow keys or WASD to control the player.

• F - Player Speed Boost
• T - Player Attempt Trick While Jumping
• M - Spawn Snow Monster
• B - Spawn Enemy Snowboarder
• Space - Reset Game

MOBILE SUPPORT** - Use your finger to direct the snowboarder. Also try double-tap ;)

• Open up index.html in Chrome, or maybe even Firefox - I haven't tested it in anything but Chrome, and I probably won't I'm afraid
• Go.

I like to run Unit tests before I do ANYTHING.

• Right, well first you need to do an npm install
• Run mocha and you should see some beautiful passing tests

This is pretty frickin' sweet but it's clearly not finished. I can totally improve it. Let me improve it, dammit.

• Dan Hough is #seekingcontributors
• Make a pull request with your awesome additions.
• Maybe raise an issue?

Contributors

Here's some lovely people who were kind enough to have opinions and spirit enough to make a pull request.

• @tomgrim1
• @ddoolin
• @andersevenrud

Thanks!

Third-party credits

• HTML5 Boilerplate provided a bunch of useful markup and stuff
• Wing Wang Wao of the Spriters Resource Forum did an amazing job of providing the sprites which I have extended slightly. Thanks!
• Thank you Chris Pirih for making the original.

License

See license.txt