Snowboarding Development Blog

WHAT! You live in Hawaii and you have never been surfing?

Will the tricks/ moves been done in a downhill or half-pipe style?

Goodluck, looking forward to what you develop.

Ah, keen observation and question.  hahah

Well, I haven't successfully gone surfing but I only tried less than 5 times.  I never even managed to balance on the board let alone catch a wave.  On the other hand I have body/boogie boarded a lot but thats super different because you can't really do tricks like grabs.

The tricks will be done in both styles!  I've recently finished testing a working halfpipe that can be placed in any map alongside the normal jumps and terrain slopes.  So you can basically do any of the tricks anywhere, it's really cool.  I just have to develop some real maps (and finish these animations) to show off the true potential.

Thanks I can't wait to share it as a beta once I finish my first development stage!  ....Which will be soon™

I guess I have only done "mute". He looks like he is riding regular.

The flying squirrel is pretty awesome.

@Josh Yep the diagram and video I posted refer to regular style tricks.  In my game you can switch between goofy and regular stance using a hotkey and by landing 180 degrees.  Tricks are the same in both stances (for sake of less animation work) but they are basically inverted regular tricks for goofy.

 

@jen Wow that's so funny that you mention Tony Hawk Pro Skater!   I grew up playing tony hawk and 1080 snowboarding on my N64 so they have been a huge inspiration (as well as reference) for my game.  Your advice is great and is somewhat similar to what I've done in my game for jumps.

  I actually analyzed how halfpipes worked in tony hawk to come up with my solution.  Basically I check if youre on a halfpipe then when your rotation reaches a certain point and if you're holding spacebar you automatically jump directly upwards.  Movement is physics based so that you can still collide with certain objects and what not but I heavily control the physics to work the way I want to avoid unintended behaviors.