Published on January 21st, 2009

Joustmas


Everyone that has ever played the arcade classic Joust should be familiar with this game! Nostalgic fools that we are, we tried to keep this game as close to the original as possible while giving it a facelift to fit with the holiday theme. We hand illustrated each frame of animation, swapping out reindeer for the flying ostriches and elves for the knights in the original game. We also thought it would be fun to swap the hatching eggs in the original with exploding presents. We traded the lava pits in the classic with a snowy winter wonderland, too. We even recorded our own original taunts and sped them up (a la The Chipmunks) to give them an elvish sound.

This year, we wanted to encourage some friendly competition out there, so we added a scoreboard to the game, using PHP and MySQL to link to a database on our server. Just enter your initials at the beginning of the game, and see if you can make it to the top. Go ahead, beat me if you can!

Click here to play it yourself. Bring it!

by Buzz Napper

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