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secure | 5 months ago

Was it vroom by any chance? A slot car racing game in space: https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/irix/man6/vroom.6.html

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/imguo4oUd-c?app=desktop

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blincoln|5 months ago

I don't think so. His description was that it was speeder bikes in a forest, like Return of the Jedi, but it was mostly a demo of the graphics capabilities, not a complete game.

e.g. I remember he specifically said you could fly in any direction you wanted, but there was a wall at the edge of the forest, as opposed to it wrapping around or having a non-inmersion-breaking reason for being constrained to the one area.

fidotron|5 months ago

A networked multiplayer version of that seems like it could be quite entertaining.

dylan604|5 months ago

Did you actually provide a shorts link? What's the world coming to? At first, I thought maybe it makes sense since it could be updated for mobile. Nope. It immediately changed aspect ratio so it is portrait oriented piece with letter boxing. :face-palm: yet another square peg/round hole example

otherwise, looks like it might be fun to play for a few minutes

catgirlinspace|5 months ago

YouTube changed 1:1 aspect ratio videos to be shorts a while back :(