Franky Morales is one of the most iconic skaters of all time. I remember playing him in a video game when I was a teenager. It’s crazy to think that now we’re friends and have been able to film / skate together several times throughout the years. This is the first part of a longer interview I recently did with him. New clips coming soon! - Brazilionaire.
Previously: FRANKY’S WORLD - The Lost City (PS5) TRAILER - Franky Morales x Ulysse Prom.
Notes: By Blueprint coding, Franky Morales is probably speaking about the Blueprint Visual Scripting system in Unreal Engine ; which is “a complete gameplay scripting system based on the concept of using a node-based interface to create gameplay elements from within Unreal Editor. As with many common scripting languages, it is used to define object-oriented (OO) classes or objects in the engine”.
Franky Morales is working with Ulysse Prom on the game. Ulysse did a lof of kitbashing on Unreal Engine. Kitbashing is about using bought 3d models, to quickly create / prototype more complex environnement. Like using various buildings, roads, assets to quickly create a city ; it’s quite common in the gaming industry or even in movies to create storyboards, demos more effienciently.
Brazilionaire released another video featuring a fellow Rollerblader: Matt Ardine: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Childish Gambino and Rollerblading (Youtube Link).
Franky’s World - The Lost City | PS5. - Videogame coming up In 2023. “Franky’s Words can’t even express my excitement as I release this into the world”. - Ulysse Prom.
“It’s been an incredible 4 year long journey and learning experience for both my partner Ulysse and myself. The game is being built at the moment and is making great progress. We will announce more details in the future, but for right now enjoy the First Premier trailer of Franky’s World - The Lost City”. - Franky Morales.
Roller Champions is a free-to-play sports game developed by Ubisoft Montreal for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. To make it short, it’s a crossover between the Rocket League game and the movie Rollerball. Two teams fight in an arena, to score goals on roller skates.
Cinematic Trailer
Game Overview - How to play
Some of the ingame skates have clear inspirations (you can customize them):
From what i saw, no grinds are doable (?) but the modules especially in the practice looks really fun to skate on (check the picture below).
The game is out now, you can check people playing it on Twitch. Visit Ubisoft.com/roller-champions for more informations.
Butterflies is a game about inline skating and graffiti. Apparently some people did that before, but they don’t seem like they’ll be doing it anymore.
Episode 2 Promo Video
Butterfly Episodes
Check the Butterfliess Youtube channel for the soundtrack and more promo videos & the Itch.io page for future episodes/ updates releases.
Ilya Savosin & Albert Valeev bring you Minecraft Blading. Using foam cubes from the park’s pit, they decided to get creative and found new ways to enjoy skating by building new obstacles, new B.L.A.D.E challenges, and all of those fun stuff we get used to watching those two buddies having a good time!
Jet Grind Radio (Dreamcast) - Live Action Print Ad (via).
Jet Set Radio Future Multiplayer (JSRFMP) is a fan made game based on the multiplayer mode of JSRF. JSRFMP is NOT a mod for JSRF! JSRFMP is a fan made remake from the ground up. This also means that it is a free standalone game, and you do not need to own JSRF to play it.
Get the game on Gamejolt.com (public test build & alpha release, around 1gb each version) - Preview of the 0.4.5 build: PLAY.
Why You NEED to Play Jet Set Radio Future Multiplayer NOW
Here are some screenshots of a multiplayer event (september 2021).
Preview of the game: “Jet Set Radio Future Multiplayer - Doing What Sega Won’t” - PLAY - Check more videos of Jet Set Radio Future Multiplayer on Youtube.
Justin Thursday came with an interesting design, he replaced the middle wheel slot of a Powerslide Trinity frame by a 3d printed h-block he designed. More goodies on Justin Thursday’s Youtube Channel.
Something fun and different. A grind block for 3x110 Powerslide Trinity frames. Jet Set Radio in real life?! - Justin Thursday (Photo).
up: Jet Set Radio Fanart by (?). The design is also close to the skates you can see in Airgear (manga & anime)
Skater XL (skaterxl.com) is a $40 skateboarding game (Steam Page) ; recently a mod called Blader XL (mod page) surfaced and allows you to play the game as a rollerblader. The mod is pretty popular on Youtube.
How to install the mod
Download the Blader XL mod ; you’ll also need two other files: XLGearModifier & XXLMod ; the XXLMod is not available on the regular page at the moment, you can get it via their discord.
XLGearMod is used to port the assets (skates) into the game and DawgVinci’s XXLMod3 has presets available to set your feet up in very specific circumstances. Included in this download are Assets and textures for skates, presets for various grinds/grabs, and a stats preset for “ideal” rollerblading.
- The Stance Presets will go into: Documents > SkaterXL > XXLMod3 > StancePresets
- The Stats Presets will go into: Documents > SkaterXL > XXLMod3 > StatsPresets
- The Assets will go into: Documents > SkaterXL > XLGearModifier > Assets
- Textures go into gear folder.
If you don’t know where your game is located, and you installed it via Steam, check this page.
The tricks
Here is a list of the available tricks (on the left) ; you can customize the tricks, each trick is defined by the position/ rotation of left and right feet, as well as the left and right toes rotations.
Mikey Lynch interviews Jelle Van den Audenaeren & Sophie de Cocker, the creators of the aggressive inline skating game On a Roll.
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