OpenRoads

[gravitronic]

While in university a friend and I dumped the original sky roads levels by dumping the dosbox heap while the game was loaded and reverse engineering the memory map. If i remember correctly we emailed the original devs (who are awesome) and they gave permission for rerelease for the open source remake available at the time.

[9erdelta]

Oh my god what have you done posting this...There's still work to get done this week.

[yeukhon]

"Oh my god" is exactly what I whispered to myself when the game started.

"Oh my god." My childhood.

[chm]

It's relatively unplayable on IceWeasel 38.6.1 (Debian). The graphics are flashing on and off.

[scuba7183]

Same on Firefox 44.0.2 on Win7

[detaro]

Same on my Windows 7, Firefox and Chrome. Strange that it seems to happen on all kinds of setups.

[fungi]

Firefox 46.0a2 (2016-03-02) on Arch Linux, Intel Graphics. Runs very well.

[rudePolice]

same

[yason]

A bit of gaming history: this is apparently a clone of a game called SkyRoads which Wikipedia claims to be a clone of "Kosmonauts", but that is obviously a clone of a hypnotic space-themed game Trailblazer from the 80's. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXsxd8O7eU for C64. Thus, the question arises: does anyone know if Trailblazer itself is a clone of some other game?

[felipemaciel]

Skyroads was the best game from my childhood.

[ultramancool]

I was just reading more about the Estonian developers of it there, BlueMoon Interactive. They also created the FastTrack P2P protocol and wrote Skype. Pretty impressive group there.

[ultramancool]

I think this would make for a great mobile game - not sure if the devs have considered supporting mobile platforms for it, but I can't seem to find anything approaching a good clone on the play store.

[viraptor]

I feel these days Distance is a good spiritual successor to Skyroads. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDVxz732rk for trailer) Not on mobile, but maybe one day.

[blablablame]

This is a clone of an old game SkyRoads.

(sure I guess new artwork could be done and levels changed and re release ti)

[nitwit005]

That perspective is quite hard on my eyes for some reason.

[rhodin]

I wonder if it would be possible to get the levels from BlueMoon's first game "Kosmonaut" to run in OpenRoads.

[tuyguntn]

Awesome, thanks for game, but I see too much blinking on my Ubuntu 15.04 desktop (firefox 37)

[brillenfux]

Just for the soundtrack alone :D

[rockydoc]

The music is feckin class!

[adamb0mb1]

Welp, there goes my afternoon.

[journeeman]

This just brought back so many memories! Thank you! :-)

[NovaS1X]

There goes the rest of my day.

[skocznymroczny]

Ahh. In the original game I can finish all levels except for Druidia 2 and 3.

[agumonkey]

Reminds me of the HP48 game Babal.