How I learned to Skate

Taavi Teemaa · 24 Jun 2022

About

How I learned to Skate is a top-down challenge game about ice-skating. Some might call it a rage game. The player controls each leg and the body tilt of the character individually, trying to chase after a girl on an increasingly difficult path.

"This is a story about how I learned to skate. It was hard..."

How I learned to Skate is a desperately difficult ice-skating challenge about a boy learning to skate for the first time, following an increasingly burdensome path, chasing after the girl he could never have.

Gameplay

Control individual legs and body tilt to move the ice-skater with a mouse or a controller. It's simple.

Raise a leg
Choose a direction
Release the leg
Tilt the body to turn

Additional info

This game is all about learning and mastering a new unique mechanic.

A challenge with checkpoints.
Inspired by a Warcraft 3 mod that I love, Polar Escape 5
Merged together with instantaneous mouse controls from Getting Over It
Takes roughly 12 hours to complete, depending on how fast you learn. Roughly 3 hours for the demo.