https://github.com/eitanblumin/flash-game-death-race
Top-down death race clone in flash
https://github.com/eitanblumin/flash-game-death-race
arcade arcade-game car flash flash-game game pedestrian
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Top-down death race clone in flash
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/eitanblumin/flash-game-death-race
- Owner: EitanBlumin
- Created: 2019-06-22T12:42:36.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-06-22T12:58:16.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-25T08:11:20.604Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: arcade, arcade-game, car, flash, flash-game, game, pedestrian
- Size: 473 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Death Race (Flash Clone)
Top-down death race clone game in flash
I've built this game back in 2006 as something stupid to pass my time.
I happen to have heard about the [classic "Death Race" game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_(1976_video_game)) from 1976, and its interesting game mechanics inspired me to recreate it as a fun simple Flash game.
## Game Mechanics
You're driving a vehicle within an enclosed "arena" of sorts with rubbery boundaries.
"Gremlins" (humanoid figures) randomly spawn within the arena and wander around.
If you hit a "gremlin", after a while, its corpse will turn into a tombstone represented by a grey cross.
If your vehicle hits such a tombstone, it will explode and cause damage to your vehicle.
If you take too much damage, your vehicle will be destroyed and the game will end.
Every once in a while, a "special" white tombstone will be spawned instead of a grey one.
If you hit this tombstone, it will make your vehicle invincible for a very limited amount of time.
You should use this limited time to hit as many grey tombstones as you can, to "clear out" the level from danger.
### Controls
- Up Arrow - Forward
- Down Arrow - Reverse
- Left Arrow - Steer left
- Right Arrow - Steer right
### Spawning Gremlins
Here's a fun fact:
Originally, I programmed the game to spawn one single new gremlin after an existing gremlin is killed.
However, due to a yet unknown bug, sometimes more than one gremlin show up instead of just one.
This actually made the game more fun and interesting the more you played, and it's a game mechanic that I planned on implementing by myself. But some freaky bug took care of it for me before I got to it!
## Source Code
I deeply apologize, but I've lost the game's source file long ago.
So all we have left is this single executable version.
Have fun!