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Stunt Jumper
2002–2005 · Windows

A side-scrolling motorcycle game where you launch off ramps and try to land jumps without crashing. Written in C++ for Windows as a demo for Beginning Game Programming, and the only game in this section that didn’t appear in an earlier book. The scrolling background and the physics-lite collision handling were the most interesting parts to write.
Download it (a standalone Windows executable from 2004, so no installer — 32-bit, and it may well still run).