Bike Or Die 2 Released!!!

[icefire]

Check it out: bike.toyspring.com!

New features:
- Improved level design, more textures, 3D-like effect
- Background music
- High contrast mode
- Customizable bike appearance
- "Player Profiles" for storing multiple configurations, especially useful when playing with family or friends
- Variable zoom
- "Map mode" is no longer static, you can even play on the map screen (as long you can manage to steer a tiny bike)
- Commonly used menu commands can be assigned to buttons
- Future biker "skins"


I'd really check this out, at least download the demo. This new version has good gameplay AND good graphics!

[samphex]

I've been looking at the videos and the pictures and I think it looks AMAZING... I'm going to get this in a few days. Can't wait!

[coder12]

Wow this is cool! I really like how the characters can be customizable, my character looks like commander keen.
The only thing I really don't like is the bendiness of the bike, which really hasn't changed. Oh well. The game still ROCKS!

[samphex]

I got the demo today... I am amazed by how everything is 3d-ified. It will take me some time to get used to it though.
None of the physics are changed right?

[icefire]

No. BTW, you guys should post on the site, there is a nice community (and you can suggest features )

[samphex]

Jun 1, 2008 0:52:45 GMT 1 icefire said:

No. BTW, you guys should post on the site, there is a nice community (and you can suggest features )

No as in physics haven't changed or no as in physics have changed?

[icefire]

They haven't changed because then the Hall of Fame replays wouln't work. That is the main problem with new BoD features, actually.

[vilmos]

Ah I know how that works, I ran into the same problem making the replays for Thruster.

They could change it btw and just make sure the replays specify a version number in future and run off the engine based on the version. I bet that would be work though... heheh

;D

[samphex]

Oh..... That's an issue...
Another question:is there an option to have the map in pause? With bike or die 1.6 i always used the map to check something...so i don't want my biker to move while i am using the map... How do you make the map also pause?

[icefire]

The problem is that the Hall of Fame has many players that don't play anymore, but those replays are stored as keypresses, so if you change the physics then you cause those to not work, and you have to restart the hall of fame. Which Sz (the game's creator) doesn't want to do, AFAIK.

[coder12]

I'd think that you could put a small tag at the beginning of each file with "engine2" or something like that and make the game register which engine it uses, and if it doesn't have an engine # then it would use the old one. And then just add something to the HOF that has which engine was used to beat the level. Like >>eng.1 or >>>eng.2. OR just add new categories for the new engine(s) completely and retain the old ones still.

[beavis]

Jun 1, 2008 16:54:47 GMT 1 samphex said:

Another question:is there an option to have the map in pause? With bike or die 1.6 i always used the map to check something...so i don't want my biker to move while i am using the map... How do you make the map also pause?

In the Control Options, assign both Show Map and Pause to the same button. That's what I do and it works fine, after confirming the "conflicting" alert.

[icefire]

coder12: I'd post on the forum, the author is VERY responsive...

[coder12]

I really didn't want to join another forum until my membership for tapland is secured. Could you just copy what I wrote and state that I wrote it?

[edit]:maybe stick a picture of commander keen in there for me too?

[mr.chockuls]

OMG! BOD 2? GOOODDDD....!!!