Light Angles

In 2015 or so I played this great little light cycle game called "Cyq-Out" on the PS3 at a meetup, but later learned it was exclusively distributed through some obscure service you can't get anymore. And when I went to look around at the time, it didn't seem like you could even buy a simple game like this on any popular console (nowadays I'm sure there's variants of this all over but it might've even been hard to find good versions on PC then 🤔).

So in late 2016 I was nearly done my computer science degree and decided this was definitely what I needed to use my new skills for, and made my first HTML JavaScript game (no game engine). Of course, it's not actually anything impressive - the code is a pretty stupid single-file spaghetti beast, but ultimately it (mostly) does the job 😅 It does seem like it runs faster than originally intended - the frame rate is tied to computer speed, it's unlikely I'll go back to fix that, so it may play better on a 60hz screen... 🤔

As I was making it I questioned why limit it to only 4 players, then why only 8 players... only 16 players...? And finally settled on 32 as a more than reasonable upper limit lol.

After I completed this, it gave me some ideas to follow-up with a 32 player dream project that was my next game Party 32. There's some details there about controller support that are relevant to this game, but you can actually play this one with keyboard single player if you want to. The computer players are pretty dumb though - they easily trap themselves unfortunately.

Here's the "manual":

Credits

This game is pretty much all me, but the audio is not original.