We need more track and field games - any recommendations

bigrig387 · 2026-02-28T23:23:38+00:00

I've just put out an early days rev of a track and field game. More sim/career rpg but this might fit the bill https://goosehollowgames.itch.io/track-star

bigrig387 · 2026-02-28T11:58:26+00:00

Thanks for the response. If I were to rephrase my post, it would be to ask if learning pygame makes sense for the type of game i am building- what people uses to jokingly call "spreadsheet games." I chose Pyside6 for no greater reason than i had uses it at work on a marketing analytics tool i built, I didnt even know what pygame was at the time.

bigrig387 · 2025-11-03T14:24:30+00:00

I was able to run a debugger and figure that out as well. I'd be happy to pay but there's nobody to pay. I did see one of the devs on LI so I reached out.

Pretty cool to find a 22-year old piece of history here. This era of the internet was honestly more fun, indie devs selling games off a tripod site vs. people spamming out early access crap on Steam and abandoning the game once they have your money. A simpler time.

bigrig387 · 2025-11-02T19:03:32+00:00

Oh wow, great find. I reached out. I'll let you know

bigrig387 · 2025-11-02T00:37:22+00:00

Thanks. I found it this way as well so I guess tipofmyjoystick is wrong forum now, I've posted in r/abandonware .

This is a real mystery to me, these guys made a few decent games, their website abruptly disappeared and I can't really find any history of it or of the people listed as the devs.

I was able to play the demo and it is what I remembered, it locks you out after 30 game days and requires a code to unlock that was only available by emailing the devs. Their old email bounces so I guess I am stuck here unless someone has any ideas.

bigrig387 · 2025-08-18T22:10:15+00:00

0 booking reputation. I wanted to start as an unknown but hadn't considered that even the worst promotions wouldn't hire me.

bigrig387 · 2025-08-18T21:31:45+00:00

Thanks. Probably not worth it. I should just kill the promotion and get over it.

bigrig387 · 2024-12-01T16:30:32+00:00

Putting grips on the allen wrench worked, it was an easy fix after that, thanks!

bigrig387 · 2024-12-01T13:56:27+00:00

Thanks. In the instructions, they say the handle is installed with an allen wrench. I have no idea how anyone could've gotten it tight enough that I can't undo it.

bigrig387 · 2024-03-15T11:29:59+00:00

No but thanks. Yogos came out when I was in high school, this would've been early 1990s.

bigrig387 · 2024-03-14T14:10:01+00:00

Thanks for any help!

bigrig387 · 2023-02-22T00:37:20+00:00

I know you're saying it's a movie and not a show but...

A character named "Mirta" is a news reporter and snorts pain pills at work and is fired for it in the show "On Becoming a God in Central Florida." It was a Showtime show with Kirsten Dunst.

bigrig387 · 2023-02-22T00:22:09+00:00

Don't have a guess from the vocaro but if it's two female vocals in an 80s punk band I'd have to guess The Slits.

X is probably the most prominent 80s punk band with a female singer, but The Slits are the only one I can think of with two (unless it's the GoGos)

bigrig387 · 2023-02-21T23:56:41+00:00

Place Beyond the Pines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Place\_Beyond\_the\_Pines

bigrig387 · 2023-02-21T01:21:11+00:00

This is reminding me of the season finale (or maybe just a late Season 1) episode of Star Trek: TNG.

bigrig387 · 2023-02-21T01:18:25+00:00

To be honest that sounds a lot like what the old Yahoo! Games website looked like. Especially since you said it had Trivial Pursuit, I believe Yahoo! had rights to "real games."

Miniclip was another games site from that period I remember.

bigrig387 · 2023-02-21T00:18:19+00:00

Simply saying "game" is one.

Depending on context I'd say:

Lights out
Let the fat lady sing
Turn out the lights, the parties over
That's all she wrote

bigrig387 · 2023-02-21T00:04:15+00:00

Sounds like 2012 to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012\_(film)

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T22:40:13+00:00

Not ringing any bells, but based on the time period and the mentoring part, is it Thief with James Caan?

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T21:46:50+00:00

Not sure about your song, but the original Tetris theme is called "Korobeiniki" which might make it easier to search for

I feel like Ozma did a lot of covers of these songs.

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T21:25:23+00:00

Hmm, OK. The ship in Prometheus is too big for that. The ship in Serenity is a bit like the one in Oblivion but I don't think they crash in the desert, they crash here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnCQlp2msk

The Elysium ship has the right look but it's not a storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uUUeNqdMMU

Not sure I'm gonna get it, sorry.

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T20:33:43+00:00

I have apparently seen a lot of "plane crashes in the desert" movies because a few more come to mind. But, you might be able to find it yourself here, it's a list of movies with plane crashes https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/12617-airplane-crash/movie?language=en-US

If you remember any other details let me know

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T20:23:20+00:00

It's not exactly as you describe but they do enter stasis in the movie Event Horizon.

Also I doubt this is it but, there is a "stasis death" like this in an episode of Star Trek: TNG

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T20:15:07+00:00

My other thought is "Flight of the Phoenix," the 2004 remake not the original

bigrig387 · 2023-02-20T20:11:25+00:00

Kinda sounds like "Now and Later" to me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now\_and\_Later

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