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This game was my entry for the experimental gameplay project of May. The game is inspired by Spy Hunter and the objective is pretty much "stay alive" while avoiding to destroy the taxis (you lose points) and gain extra points by destroying the other cars.

There's some problems with collisions which I'll probably fix when I have some time and I'm also working on adding high scores.

The game requieres python 2.6.5 (http://www.python.org/download/) and pygame 1.9.1 (http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml and should work both on windows and linux, maybe mac too, though I don't have one so I couldn't test it.

You can download the game here: http://gamejolt.com/open-source/games/arcade/vanishing-road/2532/

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FNvOBCv1X0g/TALXQcjMb8I/AAAAAAAAAIE/jN5njqUF9BI/s400/screenshot.png)

That's a lot to install for this... Maybe you should check out Java for your crossplatformness?

Most people have python installed anyway, so it's only the matter of installing pygame. Which takes all of 2 seconds.

I laughed when cars bump me from behind, looks like they're humping me.

Yeah I know, I just used python+pygame because it's fast and easy. Might learn actionscript in the future to avoid having to do N installs.

Hello bolin,


Great game,  it is an excellent tribute to Spy Hunter.

I took the liberty of converting your game into a Windows executable, using py2exe, and then packed it along with the libraries and data into a single executable, so Windows users just need to download one exe file to play.

The single exe is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4281970/Vanishing%20Road.exe (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4281970/Vanishing%20Road.exe)

All my PCs have Python+Pygame installed so I couldn't test it, but please let me know if there's any issue.

Best regards

JF

Thanks jfroco, that seems to run well. The only issue is that the game window doesn't have a titlebar so you can't move it around once it's running. But besides that it seems to work well.

The game is pretty fun so far.

Hey bolin,

Ran good on my machine. I played it a few times, I like the cheesy sound effects ;D It was a bit hard getting cars to crash in the center of the road.. I really only could get cars to crash that were already heading for an oil slick or already on the edge. Maybe have the cars speeds match yours when you hit them?

- Phr00t

Thanks, I'll try it in my notebook where I don't have python+pygame installed.

@Mechatronix: will probably add the titlebar back, some other people complained about it too.
@phr00t: maybe have it so their speed matches yours for a certain amount of time, I'll play around with this idea a bit. The sound effects were made with sfxr (http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html)

Thanks for all the comments