Fboard¶

Written 2026-10-27 from the project's own docs.

Fboard is a third-person action fingerboarding game. A fingerboard is a skateboard about 10 cm long that you ride with two fingers standing in for feet. In Fboard the rider is a sentient hand, and the game plays in the spirit of classic arcade skate games such as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (THPS): push, ollie, flip, grind and chain tricks into combos around small household-scale levels.

It is written in Rust on the Bevy game engine (version 0.19, used as an ordinary dependency, not a fork).

Current state¶

Unreleased and largely unplaytested

Fboard has no public build. The game was built between 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-25, and the project's handoff notes say plainly that most of it has been checked by automated tests and scripted runs, not by a person with a controller. Treat everything on these pages as a description of work in progress.

What exists, per the project's README and handoff notes:

The core game: skating, tricks, combos, a two-minute career mode with goals, free skate, 52 customization items, menus, settings, key rebinding, local profiles and saves. Two levels, Kitchen and Workbench.
A "feel" pass: real-scale physics by default (an "Arcade" option keeps the original slower tuning), a real-size hand, extra finger tricks, and an optional gamepad "finger mode" where each stick is one finger.
Replays and a TAS tool: deterministic replays and an offline tool-assisted-run search that produced a showcase run of the Kitchen level.
Adaptive music: a code-written pattern engine whose section, intensity and tempo follow the ride.
A research base on real-world fingerboarding, written to inform the design.

What is not done or still open:

Networking is planned and designed but not built.
Art and sound are placeholders. The hand and board are simple procedural shapes, and the curated sound folder is empty by design.
Scoring is shelved. The TAS run exposed that scoring is unbounded (see The TAS tool); fixing it is deferred while the work focuses on how play feels.
Music direction is undecided. The engine is built; the current score is a placeholder and has been judged not good enough.
Nobody has listened to the music or played the finger mode yet. Levels and timing were measured, not judged by ear or hand.
Other open questions recorded in the project: the primary audience (adults or families), audio direction (authentic tiny clicks or skateboard-style sound), wall rides and lip tricks, and distribution.

Pages in this section¶

The game

Gameplay: tricks, combos, career goals, customization and controls.
Feel and physics: real-scale physics, the hand, finger mode, and how the simulation is built.
The TAS tool and showcase run: replays, the bot, the showcase run and what it revealed about scoring.
Adaptive music: the fboard_music pattern engine and how gameplay drives the score.

The real hobby (condensed from the project's research base)

Fingerboarding: an overview: what the research covers, how reliable it is, and what it meant for the game.
Equipment and physics: decks, trucks, wheels, tape, obstacles and the physics of tiny boards.
History and culture: origins, Tech Deck, the handmade scene, values and regional scenes.
Competitions and judging: Fast Fingers, USAFBL, contest formats and how real judging works.
Fingerboarding in video games: existing fingerboard games and what THPS-style scoring teaches.

How it is built, in brief¶

The code is a Rust workspace of four crates (packages):

Crate	Role
`fboard_sim`	The skate simulation and game rules. No engine; uses only Bevy's standalone math crate.
`fboard_music`	The adaptive music engine. No engine and no audio device.
`fboard_game`	The Bevy client: rendering, the hand, menus, HUD, input, audio, saves.
`fboard_tas`	The offline tool-assisted run search.

Keeping the rules out of the engine is what lets the same simulation drive the game, the headless TAS tool, and a future server. The Bevy section covers the engine side in more detail. Related: Rust, Game design, and Music as code.