Created during Global Game Jam 2017 on the 20th Jan Wave Surfer is a game based around the theme of "Waves", it was created in 24 hours using SDL2.
During Wave Surfer you are tasked with riding the waves and avoiding the seagulls, bonus points are awarded for doing flips. In order to do this you must carefully control your speed and rotation in order to avoid landing awkwardly or getting hit. The aim is to get as high a score as possible.
The speeding up and slowing down seen in the video is the user increasing and decreasing the player speed.