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Hi all,

I've made this Need For Speed clone in just one day!
It's called Banana Racer and it's pretty awful... ehhhhmmm... awesome I mean!

All the instructions are here: https://github.com/humansarepuppies/bananaracer

I'm especially happy about my PIXEL EXACT COLLISION ROUTINE
It's well commented and can be found between lines 70 to 114 somewhere in main.lua.

Have fun!
vitaminx

I know that most of you have been waiting anxiously for the next update of this critically acclaimed world-class racing game.
Now, finally, after 10 minutes of extraordinarily hard work and fantastillion cups of cold coffee our team is proud to present:

Banana Racer 130328b

New features include:
- 50% more bananas
- number of banana is now shown in debug mode ("d" key)
- less game score (sorry), but:
- even more bananas
- car's steering got linear acceleration for an even smoother driving experience
- joystick input (steering is sensitive for analogue axis)
- audible "pling" each time a banana is not squashed
- added graphical banana effect when scoring
- now possible to restart game from inside game
- exciting game over and ending sounds

The update can be found in the original post.

Another year another update! Here comes Banana Racer 130329

changelog:
- fixed bug where game-over music keeps repeating forever
- fixed several impossible-to-win bananas
- changed the ugly yellow car for a beautiful selfpixeled pixelart pixelcar
- created a high resolution designer banana, threw away that ugly banana from before which barely deserves it's name

The new love file is as always attached to the original post.

Another update is here!
Still no better gameplay, but:

- support for changing window resolution with F1/F2 keys, which works only on systems with canvas support
- fullscreen mode can be toggled with f key
- OSD message shows when resolution changes
- mouse pointer is now invisible
- game can be paused with P and unpaused with the same key or any joy button
- removed spinning banana when scoring because it looked stupid
- added fantastic pause screen with keyboard mapping explanation
- game starts paused, so you have lots of time to grab your joypad

Awesome! This has almost reached AAA quality

How do you make sure Bananas can't be in places that make the game impossible to win? How do you calculate that?

hey, it's all in the source

I'm using a complicated algorithm to make it impossible to have an impossible level. The algorithm is called "manual placement".
yes, that's true, it's a list with x coordinates and the distance at which bananas should appear!

I thought of some randomness but I think I'll stick with the manual method.
So I can actually design hazards and traps and so on.

Also, you get better the more you play because you probably memorize a bit where they are placed.

I'm not sure if the first level is too hard, but I never made it until the end

I would totally buy a t-shirt for this game.