Perfect Stride is a first person skateboarding game for Windows & OSX based on old school FPS movement exploits (Quake jumping, Tribes skiing, CS surfing)
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By the heads of tha polarizing group Arcane Kids (idk, you all can make an opinion on them) comes a Fetus of a would-be game: An alpha, locked inside the internet archives while Arcane Kids fizzled out of existence to make big commerical games like... Donut County... and Neon White... :(.
Stumbled upon it after watching the postmortem/making-of of Ballistic Zen, Perfect Stride is a love-letter to the "weird shmooving" sub-genre, offsprung by the lovely engine quirks from Quake, CS and tha classics, blessing us with cool stuff like bunny-hopping and surfing. You surf (literally on a board) around, horizontally ungulate the mouse to gain more speed to be more, well, rad. Cruising through the kaleidoscopic-esque landscape, smokin a cig, just vibe. For what the game is (unfinished), it's remarkable, it's admirable. Yet, it always feels like it's about to burst from it seams. It's an alpha so i guess it's expected for the game to feel fragile. Just dont stare at it for too long, or else it's evaporate :).
Also I gotta preference this since it's nowhere really said, but
MAJOR EPILEPSY WARNING
The game starts by throwing you at a triangle of RGB pixels before barraging you with a swarm of quotes and flashing colors and the game just doesn't say like "hey yeah this might not be cool for you"
Stumbled upon it after watching the postmortem/making-of of Ballistic Zen, Perfect Stride is a love-letter to the "weird shmooving" sub-genre, offsprung by the lovely engine quirks from Quake, CS and tha classics, blessing us with cool stuff like bunny-hopping and surfing. You surf (literally on a board) around, horizontally ungulate the mouse to gain more speed to be more, well, rad. Cruising through the kaleidoscopic-esque landscape, smokin a cig, just vibe. For what the game is (unfinished), it's remarkable, it's admirable. Yet, it always feels like it's about to burst from it seams. It's an alpha so i guess it's expected for the game to feel fragile. Just dont stare at it for too long, or else it's evaporate :).
Also I gotta preference this since it's nowhere really said, but
MAJOR EPILEPSY WARNING
The game starts by throwing you at a triangle of RGB pixels before barraging you with a swarm of quotes and flashing colors and the game just doesn't say like "hey yeah this might not be cool for you"
The best game demo ever made, bar none. Every so often I remember that this is never coming out and I die a little inside.