Lotus Turbo Challenge.

If it's too complex for Lua speed, you could maybe merge multiple rows of pixels into one and just change the road sprite so it looks like a left or right curve instead of straightforward. I did that in xLIB BASIC once by splitting the road parts into 4 chunks (1st screenshot) instead of 32 or so (2nd):





Also my game had the game set in 2nd person view rather than 3rd person, so the car always stayed in the middle of the screen with the road moving around, rather than the opposite, and the background scrolled in curves in mine. That might be a bit overkill in Lua, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try.

Nah, top-down is more like this: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/437/43721.html

Lotus and my engine demo are pseudo 3D. Also my method uses 4 images for the road, 1 for the background, 1 for the car and an horizontal line, so I don't know if it would be problematic.

If anything, I doubt it will be as slow as my TI-BASIC+xLIB version above, though. I couldn't even get 4 FPS. Unless Lua images are really that terrible, lol.

What about lower quality ones or displaying small ones? That said, for the road you could always use shapes I guess (such as gray triangles and rectangles with no outline, if supported)

wut? what kind of game is that? I died like 20 times in the first 4 levels That's sooooo awesome, i might do that one, it's just wonderful

The only problem is that i'll have to complete them all..

It would take longer to play through the game than it would to port it

Indeed, i'm sure it will but it's so awesome, isn't it?