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Remember The Princess? After all her spectral adventures, ghostly inconveniences, and deeply questionable career choices, her royal butt deserves some treatment. On her way from Hauntosphere back to her beloved castle, Castle Creep, she stopped for a little mountain recreation known as DownHeel, or, among medical professionals, ButtBoarding® (the term invented by Trina Seliฤ).

The sport is simple, elegant, and only slightly suicidal. You place your royal bum on a snowy slope, point your heels downward, surrender your dignity to gravity, and slide faster and faster toward the finish line. Ideally, you arrive alive. Traditionally, this is considered the polite way to finish.

Steering is recommended, braking is encouraged, and avoiding walls is generally seen as a sign of intelligence. Rocks, trees, corners, suspicious blood stains, and sudden architectural decisions may appear along the way. Some of them are decorative. Some of them used to be players.

Your mission is to guide The Princess safely down the slope as fast as possible. If you succeed, glory awaits. If you fail, the mountain gets another red mark, the wall gets another compliment, and The Princess gets another reason to insult your entire bloodline.

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Survival guide:

Braking may help preserve the structural integrity of your skull.

Brakes become less effective on steeper slopes, because gravity is a bitch.

Brake while you still have time, not while you are busy becoming dead.

Turning uphill can also reduce speed, assuming you still believe in steering.

KEYS:

W ... start sliding, hold to start faster

S ... break

Q ... turn left

E ... turn right

F4 ... pause/resume game

About:
Olympic Skier

In my formative years, I spent a suspicious amount of time playing classic C64 skiing gems like Olympic Skier and Slalom, also known as Ski64. Decades later, instead of doing something sensible with my life, I decided to recreate some of that downhill chaos in 3D, with a princess, procedural mountain topology, fixed terrain sections, and a brave attempt to understand non-cubic world geometry without crying into the keyboard.

The result is a game about speed, survival, questionable royal decision-making, and the aerodynamic properties of a princess sliding down a mountain on her butt.

Slalom

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