Sky Surfer is a fast paced platform jumping game designed in Microsoft’s XNA framework.  The game’s objective is to dodge and jump quickly between platforms and obstacles with your hover-car, in the quest to collect each of the golden rings at the end of each level!

The game has the following features:

• Single Player 3D environment platform based game.
• A hover car which the player controls, with the ability to accelerate, brake, turn left and right, and jump.
• 6 Zones, each with differing levels of gravity, lighting, different textures and a different skybox.
• 3 levels per zone, making a total of 18 levels.
• Levels can be played in any order, and can be selected from the game’s menu.
• Speed and jump boosts.
• Moving barrier obstacles.
• Snow particles (in Zone 3).
• Particles showing on picking up a boost.
• Saved track times, so you can try and beat your previous times.
• Each track has a par time associated with it for the player to attempt to beat. A silver trophy is awarded for track completed over par time, a gold awarded for tracks completed under par time.
• Achievements (obviously not official Microsoft achievements, but I have coded my own achievements worth 200 points into the game).
• Basic light shading.
• Xbox 360 controller support with vibration.

At the moment only Xbox 360 controller is supported. Keyboard support may be added in the future. Currently only a resolution of 1280×720 is supported (720p).  The source code is a bit messy, since it was one of my first attempts at fully programming a game.

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Trailer:

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[October 2009] I’ve taken the download of Sky Surfer’s source offline for a while for numerous reasons. [1] I’m hoping to develop the project further pretty soon and [2] the code is a mess and needs reworked a lot.  I made this game years ago and now have better coding skills I’d like to put to use on it.  I hope to have a binary download of the game online very soon (I’ve been saying that for a while now!).