Or you could check out the non-vibe coded Airplane Mode from 2020: https://store.steampowered.com/app/931310/Airplane_Mode/
That's... why? I can understand slow games like EuroTruck or Farming Sim. But what's the point of this?
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Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
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#132This is brilliant. Future enhancements can match the inner design of the plane to the actual plane used for that route by that airline, and the ability to choose economy, premium plus, busines class, etc...
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These days it's pretty unusual to think of an idea that hasn't been done yet, so when you do, I guess you just don't think too much and go make it.
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Simulator
That one predates vibe coding by quite a few years though: a lot of hard work went into Goat Simulator, and there were no doubt other more obvious choices for how the developers spent their time, but they still chose to make Goat Simulator.
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#134Sitting all alone in the plane I'm reminded of the movie Knight and Day (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz) where they are nearly the only passengers (with some adversaries).
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Interesting, thanks for the idea. Would be pretty cool if this app did have some real-world applications, beyond being a bit of a meme app. Thanks for the comment!
This is going to sound insane, but something like this for the backseats of various common, and maybe even exotic, cars would be cool too. I have similar problems being a passenger in an uber for more than 15 mins. I lose my mind on roadtrips when it's not my turn to drive.
Not at all! Cars are an extremely common trigger for anxiety. You are far from alone in this.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Simulator
That one predates vibe coding by quite a few years though: a lot of hard work went into Goat Simulator, and there were no doubt other more obvious choices for how the developers spent their time, but they still chose to make Goat Simulator.
Also it's a geninue game with goals to complete, mainly cribbing from games like the Tony Hawk's series.
Two separate categories: Meme games[*] don't have to be vibecoded, not all vibecoded things become meme games.
[*] A "meme game" being a game which is tries to be ridiculous and is predominantly popular because of social media exposure. I would include games like Goat Simulator, Horse Magnifier, Squirrel with a Gun, QWOP, Untitled Goose Game, Trollface Quest...
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It's a work in progress. I have cut down on the original mesh size by quite a bit but continue to do that. I also fade out the resolution of the map tiles as you approach the horizon so you aren't loading ihgher res satellite images than you need. I've run entire flights on my 2022 mac pro with no issue, but as this is a side project it remains not as optimal as it could be. Any suggestions for order of operations /…
I have a few suggestions: - as I mentioned above, the shadow map is drawn twice, probably it's being auto updated by three.js at some point - the entire cabin has a lot of triangles while the player only sees a small portion of it - cabin lighting could be baked - a lot of triangles seem to be rendered without backface culling, that's probably not intentional - don't run GTAO at full resolution, try half And also, us…
awesome, I will look at each of these, one at a time. my bigger issue today was that I was not expecting so many people to try the app and have unoptimized bandwidth costs. bringing those down first and then will be looking into optimizations like you have listed. I honestly just built this thing for fun & it was running fine for me. now that others are using it it's time to start thinking about performance more. Appreciate the thoughts.
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#139can you pause halfway through a flight and come back to it?
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#1403 dolphins and 2 acres of rainforest well spent. I like it.