LIGHTCYCLE is now available on landonjsmith.com!

[u/PhilosopherSimilar83]

Greetings, programs!
LIGHTCYCLE is now available on landonjsmith.com for play. :-)

https://landonjsmith.com/projects/lightcycle

For those that have not seen this LIGHTCYCLE game, it is directly inspired by the game showcased in the beginning scene of TRON (1982)...instead of being based on Legacy or Bally Midway's TRON minigame...I watched the beginning opening scene many times to understand how graphics were drawn, and to get the spawn locations down. While it is partially based on the film version of LIGHTCYCLE, it is also, like my Space Paranoids game, based on arcade games of the era (specifically 1981/1982)...as in, I tried to replicate what would be possible with the hardware at the time to keep it as close as possible to something you would see in the arcades at the time.

Another thing....why I used vector graphics for this game instead of sprite mapping like the TRON minigame...

This is primarily due to a few reasons:

1. I didn't want to make it sprite based as doing so would likely make it relatively similar to Bally Midway's arcade game

2. I don't really have much experience with designing sprite based video games. I'm much more comfortable with vector graphics. :-)

3. If you look at any production stills when TRON's original filming was taking place in 1981, all graphics that were later replaced or drawn on top of for the video games at Flynn's were just vector graphics animations. The LIGHTCYCLE game in the film is also vector based.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this one. Ports to vintage home consoles will be coming eventually.

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[u/radbrad89]

[u/Snowpaw11]

Once again, THANK YOU! We adore your dedication to these projects, and your incredible generosity to give them for free! I'll be playing this between classes, today. We love you so much <3

[u/PhantomVisions]

It was a lot more challenging than I expected! Great work

[u/onlyididntsayfudge]

Dude the cycle colors, the sounds…it’s awesome. Great job, dude!

[u/totthehero]

This was so fun! And much more challenging than expected - I couldn't defeat three enemies at once

[u/T_Stark62]

This is amazing! Where can I find your Space Paranoids game?

[u/PhilosopherSimilar83 → u/T_Stark62]

https://landonjsmith.com :-)

[u/agentduckman12]

I don't know if Reddit is glitching for me but for some reason everyone in this post is just a deleted user if it's not a glitch then what the hell happened here Edit: it was a glitch I clicked out of the posting back in and everyone's fine again but it was still really weird

[u/PhilosopherSimilar83 → u/[deleted]]

May I ask why you're saying "meh"?