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Minimalist Skiing Game With Realistic Physics

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jeffweber
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Hey Skiers.

I apologize if this the wrong place for this post. Please feel free to remove if it is.

My name is Jeff Weber and I recently created minimalist 2D skiing game for the iPhone. I thought some here might be interested since it's kind of the skiing off-season. :-)

The unique thing about the game is it uses more realistic rotation mechanics than most games. Once in the air you can only crouch or extend to control your spin. No fake outside torques, just conservation of angular momentum.

To play: Slide thumb up when you come to a jump to get some back spin. In the air, slide your thumb down to crouch and spin faster and up to extend and spin slower. With some practice (and it will take practice) you should be able to stick your landings.

I'll warn you, it's a tough game as it requires development of some new muscle memory, but you all should be use to that. :-)

Here is the trailer:
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/868779/Just-Ski-Official-Trailer--iOS-

Here is the AppStore link:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/just-ski/id1202396982?ls=1&mt=8

Again, sorry if this isn't the place for a post like this.

Thanks.

-Jeff Weber
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May 19 2017 11:32AM
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snowfinder
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There use to be an online game like that, but this looks way smoother and I'm going to kill a lot of time playing it.
May 19 2017 11:47AM
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Swandog7
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This actually looks really neat, but is it for Andorid on the play store as well?
May 19 2017 11:51AM
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Sharko
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This was a flash game like 10 years ago. But looks cool, might download. Love the next-gen graphics.
May 19 2017 12:08PM
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jeffweber
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Swandog7This actually looks really neat, but is it for Andorid on the play store as well?


Coming to Android, but not there yet. I'll post again once it's available for Android.
May 19 2017 12:10PM
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.CJ.
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jeffweberComing to Android, but not there yet. I'll post again once it's available for Android.


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May 19 2017 1:02PM
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Aparker
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bro you made ski safari
May 19 2017 3:25PM
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jeffweber
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Aparkerbro you made ski safari


Ha, not quite. Controls in my game are much tougher than Ski Safari as I was going for a bit more realism.
May 19 2017 3:45PM
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finnolydorb
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"Realistic Physics"
May 19 2017 3:56PM
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special_k10101
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This reminds me of Ski Stunt Simulator!
I played this back in middle school.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/skistunt.html
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/sssjava/javademo.html
May 19 2017 8:14PM
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AdiibA
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does anyone remember "o2 skiing game"? http://downloads.informer.com/o2skiing-alpha-demo/ unfortunately I haven't been able to play it since i got a mac, but i used to spent an absurd amount of time on mastering the controls. The physics of o2 skiing haven't been matched ever since
May 20 2017 8:32AM
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ed3n862
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Looks awesome! Could you give me the game free? I'll spread it around
May 20 2017 9:41AM
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jeffweber
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special_k10101This reminds me of Ski Stunt Simulator!
I played this back in middle school.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/skistunt.html
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/sssjava/javademo.html


Yes. Ski Stunt Simulator was great and the controls for Just Ski are a simplified version of SSS.
May 20 2017 9:43AM
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P.O.W.
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game looks sick
May 20 2017 7:32PM
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HuckNorris44
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Looks just like Stickman Ski Racer, just more plain graphics. Looks fun
May 21 2017 1:21AM
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PearTree-Prod
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Hey man pretty cool game. One thing I did notice though is that when you land a trick and go from swiping up like extended position to come out of a trick to back to crouching there's this little bump/jump that throws the skier forward causing you to die sometimes. Another thing would be if you added a point system that would be pretty cool too with maybe extra points for flipping and stuff? Other than that though it's a solid game.
May 21 2017 10:56AM
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patagonialuke
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Really fun so far. Would be cool to see more options for courses. I know it's meant to be difficult, but it's getting kinda annoying having to do the same starting section every time.
May 21 2017 2:23PM
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jeffweber
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patagonialukeReally fun so far. Would be cool to see more options for courses. I know it's meant to be difficult, but it's getting kinda annoying having to do the same starting section every time.


Yeah, restarting gets old. I've considered adding checkpoints, but that might make things too easy and many people like the difficulty level.

Extra courses my come if the game takes off...

Thanks for playing.
May 21 2017 10:07PM
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jeffweber
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HA_ProductionsHey man pretty cool game. One thing I did notice though is that when you land a trick and go from swiping up like extended position to come out of a trick to back to crouching there's this little bump/jump that throws the skier forward causing you to die sometimes. Another thing would be if you added a point system that would be pretty cool too with maybe extra points for flipping and stuff? Other than that though it's a solid game.


The game does keep track of your flips and gives you the total at the end of the run. That is sort of meant to be your score.

-Jeff
May 21 2017 10:09PM
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PearTree-Prod
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jeffweberThe game does keep track of your flips and gives you the total at the end of the run. That is sort of meant to be your score.

-Jeff


Unless it's just something with my game I don't get the score at the end of the run so maybe an update just hasent been released or something but at least you have a plan for it!
May 22 2017 5:53AM
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GrandThings
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HA_ProductionsUnless it's just something with my game I don't get the score at the end of the run so maybe an update just hasent been released or something but at least you have a plan for it!


Same, already played this for a few hours last night haha.

Also agree the one thing I want would be course variability. Only thing I was getting tired of was the same jumps over and over
May 22 2017 4:45PM
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cozzey
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Just bought it so lets see how it goes
May 23 2017 1:03AM
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jeffweber
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HA_ProductionsUnless it's just something with my game I don't get the score at the end of the run so maybe an update just hasent been released or something but at least you have a plan for it!



Hmm, that is strange... you got to the little cabin and there was no rotation counts in the top left corner?
May 23 2017 9:33PM
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PearTree-Prod
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jeffweberHmm, that is strange... you got to the little cabin and there was no rotation counts in the top left corner?

What cabin? And no there isn't a rostation counter in the top left
May 24 2017 1:03AM
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schoeski
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basically just a series of chads gaps'
May 24 2017 2:53AM
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mgrimskog
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Just get shredsauce instead guys!!!
May 24 2017 4:11PM
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Chubz.
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mgrimskogJust get shredsauce instead guys!!!


Fuck off
May 24 2017 5:46PM
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freeskier1011
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HA_ProductionsWhat cabin? And no there isn't a rostation counter in the top left


You need to make it to the end of the level for it to give you your score!
When you get to the end of the level you crash into a snowbank outside a cabin
May 29 2017 8:48AM
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dropimg
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Super keen for the Android version
May 29 2017 7:00PM
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jeffweber
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dropimgSuper keen for the Android version


Android version is out!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farseergames.justski&hl=en
Jun 14 2017 12:21PM
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dropimg
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jeffweberAndroid version is out!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farseergames.justski&hl=en


Downloaded, me likey
Jun 14 2017 4:15PM
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Craigskis
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Lay tuck tuck
Jun 14 2017 5:36PM
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jeffweber
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Hey everyone.

Just wanted to give you all a heads up. My skiing game, Just Ski, is free on iOS for the weekend.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/just-ski/id1202396982?ls=1&mt=8
Oct 5 2017 7:52AM
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Trefin
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Great quick pick up and play game with solid mechanics. DL this game!
Oct 5 2017 9:34AM
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RoidedSasquatch
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The referenced post has been removed.

We played Shredsauce in high school, it was rad.

**This post was edited on Oct 8th 2017 at 11:47:26pm
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