Skifree — sports

Skifree (Ски-фри) is a port of the legendary SkiFree: an endless downhill run over a slope littered with pines, boulders and jump ramps. You get five skiers and one goal — travel as far as you can. Speed climbs, turns get sharper, and after 2000 metres a Yeti lumbers over the ridge and starts chasing you. It gains on you relentlessly, so your only way out is to keep your pace and weave. A catch costs a life; run out of all five and the run is over. All the art is sprite-based on a 2D canvas, with not a single external library.

Controls (mouse and finger — identical):

• Mouse: move the cursor down the slope — the skier heads for the point under it; a click also starts the run
• Finger: tap or drag across the piste to steer, double-tap for a burst
• Keyboard: A / D turn left / right, S tuck for speed, W brake, F speed-boost, T trick mid-air, Space starts a new run

How to play:

• Hit a tree or a rock and the skier wipes out and loses a life — don't
• Ramps launch you into a jump with a rush of speed; press T in the air to spin a somersault
• The boost (F / double-tap) doubles your speed for a couple of seconds but has a cooldown — save it for the Yeti
• Your score is the metres travelled, which also feeds a high score that saves on its own
• The Yeti shows up on its own at 2000 m and only gets faster — the further you go after that, the more the run is worth