———PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION——— Internet Explorer is strongly recommended to run Scratch projects. Behold, my homage to possibly my favorite GameCube game: Kirby Air Ride! As a nod to the original, you play this game with just the arrow keys and space bar. Kirby Air Ride on Scratch is a racing game. You race against the clock. Your vehicle (known as a machine) will move forward automatically. Those who played the original will notice that this project is most similar to the game's "Top Ride" mode. v1.7 sports ten machines and eight courses for you to race on. —CONTROLS and MECHANICS— In the menu screen... LEFT/RIGHTkeys: select machine/course. SPACE: select machine/course. During the game... Press the LEFT/RIGHT keys to steer. When taking a sharp turn, press and hold SPACE to start sliding. The machine will slow down and fill up the Boost meter. When it is full, release the SPACE key to Boost forward. When you ride over a Boost panel (green arrows), your machine will gain speed. When you ride over a yellow line, your machine will start Gliding. Press the UP/DOWN arrow keys to lose/gain altitude, respectively. Each machine is unique. They all perform much differently from each other. Read the description that appears when you select a machine to learn more about them.
If you love this project, please consider proposing that this project gets featured. https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/2733/ I hand-made all of the sprites, except for the first 5 "Menu Stats" costumes, machine pictures, title logo, and the fonts. Music and SFX are from Kirby Air Ride and Mario Kart Wii. —What's next?— - Add a few machines and courses. - Add more detail to the courses. - Squash bugs. —CHANGELOG— v1.7.1 [October 26, 2016 10:44 PM PDT] - Added the course name to v1.7 [September 29, 2016 6:10 PM PDT] - Added a pause function. While racing, press P to pause the game. - General improvements to code. Cleaned up code to make things run smoother. - Winged Star now has exhaust particles. - Winged Star's gliding speed now takes longer to ramp up, but can reach a higher speed than before. - Winged Star's turning while gliding is slightly improved. - Swerve Star's top speed increased to about 37.35. v1.5 [September 27, 2016 3:06 PM PDT] - Added Magma Flows. - Added Beanstalk Park. - Warp Star will now slide forward slightly while charging. v1.4 [September 21, 2016 9:00 PM PDT] - Added Frozen Hillside. v1.3 [August 23, 2016 3:08 AM PDT] - Increased Bulk Star's inertia; it will retain its speed better after using up its fuel. - Slightly increased Winged Star's gliding speed. - Increased Warp Star's ground speed and boost power. - Increased Swerve Star's turning speed. v1.2.1 [August 22, 2016 1:30 AM PDT] - Added "Machine Passage" music. - General collision detection improvements. v1.2 [August 21, 2016 2:34 AM PDT] - Added a new machine "Winged Star". This machine is very adept at gliding, but its ground performance is subpar. v1.1 [August 19, 2016 6:13 PM PDT] - Added new course "Sky Sands". - Fixed bug where machine would move in opposite direction if, while gliding, SPACE was pressed to make the height gauge reach 0. v1.0 [August 11, 2016 5:13 PM PDT] - Released.
