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Looking for Programmer for small hobby game

Posted by Graeme - October 6th, 2020


Right at the top here.

The plan is for this to be small, and free. So only take it on if you want something fun to mess around with, and aren't in it to get paid, or earn much more than a little ad rev.

I know that's a lot more than many people can bite off these days. If you really want to, we can treat it as a personal game jam, and not spend more than ~1 week on it? Minimize our time investment, and focus on doing a quick turnaround!


Back in 2008 (it's been a minute...) I did some planning and animating for a Newgrounds themed snowboarding game.

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I had a selection of characters from around the site (for each, I had received permission to use in game).

I even drew up sprites for 7 of them! Although some might need touch-ups at this point.

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We could easily revisit that now though, and make the last few character additions things that feel a little more relevant to 2020 Newgrounds rather than characters that were popular a decade ago xD


Each one has a basic animation for lean right, lean left. As well as a tail grab, nose grab, and one move that's unique to that character! Each character could have different stats for speed, acceleration, rotation, etc.


We could do it as an endless runner of sorts. Maybe with physics somewhat similar to Downhill Snowboard?

Do flips. Tricks. Collect... something. Unlock snowboards, and characters. Add some achievements and a highscore board. Maybe there are a few different themed hills to go down with slight Newgrounds related re-skins?


Probably not much more than that needed.

We'll keep it small, simple, and I can send some of the assets over to work with asap!

I hope that's strikes someone's interest. Cheers!


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Not a programmer, but if you want to spice things up with some wacky voices, feel free to hit me up man, it'd be nice to work together again!

I'll keep that in mind, thanks! Hope all is going well :)

I'm not sure I want to be considered yet, maybe only as a last resort, but replaying downhill snowboard made me want to attempt replicating it. I might try to make a little prototype on my own time. If anything comes of it, I'll let you know!

Although I will advise you that downhill snowboard uses a sort of 2d ragdoll by pinning the different parts of the person together, and that would be difficult to do with the sprites you've provided.

Yeah, the precise ragdolly-ness of Downhill probably wouldn't translate. But I still like the weight and momentum of that physics-based boarding and moving. So it'd come down more to physics with simulated weight-tilts rather than a literal rag body

Hey Noodle, I'm unfortunately not a programmer but I'm a musical composer. If You need music or sound effects let me know. It'd be great to collab.

If you need a voice actor for Pico I'm Your Guy! only if you need one,K?