Building Outrun in 2D Canvas

CodeIncomplete has a neat demo and blog post on building a game similar to outschool arcade-favorite racer Outrun in HTML5 Canvas.

The blog post covers the details of the first version of the demo (straight roads) – with details on curves and hill coming in later posts.


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