@Boiled Sweets: SkyBlazer

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Seen this?

http://www.maskedbear.com/#skyblazer

...

Nope.

but uh, you're not boiled sweets ;-)

Interesting but dare I say it not a patch on....

RetroSphere!

www.boiledsweets.com/RetroSphere

Oooh...

There are some interesting ideas in there that seem a bit different from RetroSphere.

Are you egging me on to do RetroSphere 2?

Nope.

puki,

thanks for your input. Most helpful.

Actually I never paid it I just wanted you to see it due to Retrosphere.

Ta.

Hi guys, I'm Alex from Maskedbear, I'm the man behind Skyblazer. In fact I actually played Retrosphere Demo (great game BTW) before making Skyblazer so I really was inspired by it as long as from Trailblazer and Skyroads, but I added some new ideas to the concept.
I'm planning to write a new Skyblazer(2) version in Blitz3d in the next 6 months (the first version was not made by Blitz), so... keep your eyes on this forum and on my site!

http://www.maskedbear.com

Woah, first post!
Welcome, MaskedBear.

Anyway, consider it an honour that your game has already inspired others :)
It has joined the ranks of Tetris and Asteroids.

aha the author posts. Hi :-)

I thought you must have seen RetroSphere. the track colour is the same and the tunnel background is very similar to RetroSphere.

Anyhow, nice one. There can never be too many remakes of Trail Blazer!

Thank you :)
In fact I liked your star-tunnel effect and tried to create a similar one in my first levels.
To create it I used many ghost planes placed in a circular way and angled accordingly, each one having different speed and different z starting from camera position. When one of the planes ends up out of sight behind the camera its z becomes a far one and so the effect goes on. I added a fixed dark background, too.
I'm very curious about the method you used (if you want to tell it of course!)

What's with the bears and masks then? Why would a bear wear a mask? What's going on?

@puki: when a normal bear wears a mask he becomes a superhero called the Masked Bear !
It's a comic charachter I created time ago, then I decided to use it as a mascotte for my software and my site :)