Did this a few years ago. Seems apropos. Sources and more here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Mooncraft2000
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#2Very neat. Reminded me a bit of Terminal Velocity from a purely visual perspective (even though they used a more standard texture mapped 3d engine).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_(video_game)
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#3Nice game! Just having two thrusters fire at the same time sounds a bit distorted. Are you generating the engine noise procedurally?
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#4The README is phenomenal, it really tells the story of how the game was built.
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#5Oooh, very neat, it's a voxel map with real elevation data? Yes, yes it is. VERY neat.
Simplified physics though. Ever considered a Jebediah Kerman edition?
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#6Why can't accelerate to my hearts content?! We're trying to get in to orbit here!
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#7Hey I really liked this. Reminded me a tiny bit of Lander on the Archimedes, Hardwar (underrated!), Wing Commander-y visuals.
The extensions suggest themselves - some progression (financial) beyond merely guild hierarchy; some adversarial element (could be economical like bidding for routes.)
Only bit I struggled with was the car-like handling when you turn left and right; I would expect you to orient using yaw axis and then have to use thrust to change your velocity vector. But it certainly is simpler the way you have it.
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#8Love this game
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#9Hey I really liked this. Reminded me a tiny bit of Lander on the Archimedes, Hardwar (underrated!), Wing Commander-y visuals. The extensions suggest themselves - some progression (financial) beyond merely guild hierarchy; some adversarial element (could be economical like bidding for routes.) Only bit I struggled with was the car-like handling when you turn left and right; I would expect you to orient using yaw axis…
The "car-like handling" is still physically accurate - thrusters automatically align your velocity vector to match your view direction. You can think of it as simply an interface - view direction is both a command and a display.
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#10The controls are very awkward on iOS safari. The thrust plus 3 direction buttons are on the top row and one direction button is on the bottom row.