Treadmill

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Game Genre: Bicycle Ride Simulator
Number of Players: 1
Platform: Windows
Inspired By: Eloton

When connected to a treadmill, this game plays back one of the pre-recorded high-resolution videos. The faster you turn the pedals, the faster the video is played back.

Initially I used Godot 3.0 engine to make this game, but the video playback functionality turned out to be very rudimentary. Godot engine required the videos to be stored in one specific sub-optimal format, and it lacked the ability to change playback speed. So the decision was made to drop Godot engine and write this game from scratch in C++ using SDL and ffmpeg libraries.