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Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

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Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

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I did wonder what that sound was!

That’s my baby

This is adorable.

Great game! I got a 95 point landing after a good few goes then I saw all the fun people were having with the crashes so I joined in. Great job!

Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

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I went off screen, turned around and crashed at 394.6 MPH.

This, and going sideways really really fast is the way. The highest I've seen is 1500mph.

I crashed at 2499.1 mph by going sideways for a long long time. How accurate is your physics? If I hit orbital velocity, will I just orbit the moon? What if I hit escape velocity?

Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

#34
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Pretty fun! I like trying to make as many flips as possible: Basically a fender bender, but you landed Score: 45.4 point landing Speed: 3.5mph Angle: 9.5° Time: 62 seconds Flips: 18 Max speed: 86.8mph Max height: 1276ft Engine used: 32 times Boosters used: 55 times

I went up to 20,000+ feet, flipped 1000+ times, but then didn't land it. I couldn't get it to stop flipping before it crashed.

Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

#37

Suggestion of improvement: landing should only be successful if lateral velocity is inside a limit.

Lateral velocity should be taken into account since I'm taking the vector of the x/y velocity. It's just that it needs to be under 12mph, so you can be going pretty fast laterally.

Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

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This feels like an achievement: Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth Score: 190.2 point crash Speed: 1612.3mph Angle: 98.6° Time: 220 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 1612.3mph Max height: 4534ft Engine used: 15 times Boosters used: 129 times https://ehmorris.com/lander/

This is the fastest I've ever seen!

Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

#39
post #32

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This, and going sideways really really fast is the way. The highest I've seen is 1500mph.

I crashed at 2499.1 mph by going sideways for a long long time. How accurate is your physics? If I hit orbital velocity, will I just orbit the moon? What if I hit escape velocity?

That is amazing. Not accurate at all really, unless the moon was an infinite plane I guess. If you hit escape velocity you'll never land!

Re: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

#40

Nice one. The left-right feel swapped to me, but I fail to give a factual reason. Also reminds me of two 90s era DOS games: Ugh and some other about landing on Moon. Similar to yours, but the lander looked like a small tower/crate (for lack of better description).

I think some games in this style rather have you fire the left thruster with the left arrow key and firing the right thruster with the right arrow key, which kind of makes sense in its own right.
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