Skate Scape
An arcade skateboarding game set in the 2009 RuneScape world, playable in your browser.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 style combos meet skate.-style freedom across the whole of Gielinor: grind Lumbridge's castle walls, drop in from a mega ramp outside Falador, get catapulted across the map, race the Gnome agility course, and level up a brand-new Skateboarding skill to 99.
📸 Screenshot / gameplay GIF coming soon.
⚠️ Early access. The game is very playable but rough around the edges. Expect bugs, placeholder art and big changes. Help is very welcome; see Contributing.
Unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Jagex. RuneScape is a trademark of Jagex Ltd. This repository does not contain Jagex assets.
Features
- The whole mainland, free to roam: about 1,800 × 1,700 tiles from Castle Wars to Port Phasmatys, streamed in as you skate, with 37 teleport spots.
- THPS-style combos: flips, shove-its, grabs, grinds on any wall, fence or rail, manuals, reverts, powerslides and wallrides, plus RS-themed special tricks once your special bar is full.
- skate.-style freedom: drop your own kickers, rails and quarter pipes anywhere, set a session marker and retry a line, replay the last 20 seconds.
- Insane stuff: four mega ramps, six catapults that throw you between towns, wallplants and Agility leaps onto rooftops.
- A Skateboarding skill (1–99): RuneScape's XP curve, with unlocks such as Wallplant, Agility leap, Iron knees and Double leap.
- Progression: five tiered challenges per town, town runes to collect, metal-tier boards (Bronze to Third-age), unlockable decks and pets that skate along with you.
- A living world: NPC skaters who chat in RS style ("gimme gp pl0x"), random events (Evil Chicken, Genie, Sandwich Lady…), agility-course and downhill races with medals and ghost runs.
- The 2009 HD look: real client textures, lighting, fog and player animations, rendered with three.js.
The full controls and mechanics are in docs/GAMEPLAY.md.
Quick controls
| Action | Keyboard |
|---|
| Push / brake / steer | W / S / A, D |
| Ollie (hold to charge) | Space |
| Flip / shove-it / grab tricks | Q / E / C (+ W/A/S/D) in the air |
| Manual / revert | M / Shift after landing |
| Surge (dash) | G |
| Teleport menu / world map | T / Tab |
| Quick drop obstacles | B |
| Pause and help | Escape / H |
A standard gamepad works too.
Play it
https://alisoglu.com/skate-scape/ in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer.
The first visit downloads the 2009scape game cache, about 95 MB, straight from the 2009scape project's GitLab, then builds the world in your browser. This takes a few seconds on a fast connection. The browser keeps it, so later visits start in under a second. Nothing from Jagex is hosted by this project.
Run it locally
- Install the tools (once): Node.js 24 LTS or newer and Git.
- Get the code:
git clone https://github.com/UmutAlisoglu/skate-scape.git
cd skate-scape
npm install
- Start the game:
npm run dev
Then open http://localhost:5173. Like the website, it builds the world in your browser from the 2009scape cache on GitLab.
On Windows you can also double-click play.bat, which installs everything and opens the game. Keep its window open while you play.
Working on the exporters or playing offline? You can still convert the cache on your own computer into public/ with npm run export:* (docs/ASSET_SETUP.md). The game uses those exports when they're there. Use ?source=gitlab or ?source=local to choose.
Project structure
src/
main.ts game loop: wires everything together
game/ gameplay: skater physics, tricks, combos, career, UI, races, events, pets, landmarks…
player/ RS avatar, animation and skate poses on the RS skeleton
world/ streaming the map, collision, the RS-style shader, sky
world/remote/ building the world in the browser from the 2009scape GitLab cache (web workers)
shared/ data formats shared by the game and the exporters
tools/
export-*.ts asset exporters: read the 2009scape cache, write files to public/
cache/ cache readers (disk and HTTP Range), models, configs, sprites
world/ turns map regions into terrain, object meshes and collision (shared with the browser)
player/ builds the player's wardrobe, emotes and the NPCs (shared with the browser)
texgen/ the 2009 client's procedural texture generator, ported to TypeScript
play.mjs the one-click launcher behind play.bat
tests/ regression tests (npm test), no assets needed
docs/ gameplay guide, asset setup, implementation notes
public/ optional local exports (ignored by Git, never committed)
vendor/ the 2009scape cache and client source you download (ignored by Git)
Developer notes from the build so far are in docs/HANDOFF.md.
Contributing
Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are all welcome, especially for performance (loading time, memory, frame rate), controls/feel and bugs. Read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started, and look for issues labelled good first issue. Everyone taking part follows the Code of Conduct.
Licence and credits
Skate Scape is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (LICENSE). You may use, change and share it, but modified versions, including ones you host as a website, must stay open source under the same licence.
Parts of the asset tools, the texture generator and the animation code are ported from the 2009scape RT4 client (AGPL-3.0). The game assets come from the 2009scape cache, which your browser (or you) downloads from 2009scape's GitLab. See NOTICE.md for full credits.
Contact
Made by Umut Alisoglu: alisoglu.com · [email protected]
