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Free Starship Booster catching arcade game

78 points by FrojoS 2y ago

sparrish 2y ago
I can't get the game to start. <space> doesn't do anything.
- FrojoS 2y ago
  Weird. It works for me. Chrome on OS X. M1 Mac Air.
- estebarb 2y ago
  In the cellphone works well. Just needed like 10 attempts for landing it haha
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mikehostetler 2y ago
this is so much fun
jaimehrubiks 2y ago
it's very hard!
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arendtio 2y ago
Hm, in Chromium it doesn't take the space-button and in Firefox it takes the space-button, but all I see is the HUD, to I can see the booster orientation, but nothing more, so it crashes. Both on an Arch Linux Desktop PC. Edit: There are several shader-related errors in the Firefox console like (NVIDIA GPU): Hidden/PostProcessing/MultiScaleVO shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)
mlindner 2y ago
Was the link changed? I thought it pointed to SpaceX's official game: https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/ https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/
- dotnet00 2y ago
  It looks like both games ended up being released at the same time
foreverobama 2y ago
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mlindner 2y ago
The physics of this game (on mechazilla.io) feels broken. If the rocket starts rotating it just keeps rotating which is not how physics works. The rocket from its motion would weather vane to it's velocity vector in reality, but it doesn't.
- teractiveodular 2y ago
  If your rocket starts rotating, you're screwed anyway.
- tomxor 2y ago
  It feels intuitive to me. I think you need to consider gravity, if you've ever tried to balance a broom stick on one finger you get a similar effect, your finger is the thrust.
jmkd 2y ago
Great diversion! Level 10...no thanks...
jmchambers 2y ago
Fun little game. Love the attention to detail when you clip the tower. Hopefully SpaceX won't need to make final-approach corrections quite as drastic as these though - could get rather expensive if so...
tomxor 2y ago
Finished 20 but found level 14 the hardest, tower arm kept breaking off. Last few levels are pretty fun.
- Gravityloss 2y ago
  Got up to level 13, it is pretty hard. Interesting choices you have to make, horizontal speed vs vertical.
cr125rider 2y ago
I couldn’t get this to work in Brave or Firefox on Linux or iOS. I still got round 1 though lol. Must be a gimme
xunil2ycom 2y ago
Still waiting for faa approval. Very realistic game.
HeralFacker 2y ago
Where is the transparency statement about whether or not this is farming flight data for one of the for-profit rocket companies?
rkagerer 2y ago
The Starlink trains are a nice touch.
antoniuschan99 2y ago
Here's level 20 https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt Godspeed IFT-5
senectus1 2y ago
Doesnt seem to work on Chrome on Linux Works on Firefox but is very low frames. unplayable.
sen 2y ago
Just completed the whole game in iPhone/Safari. Was very difficult but very fun. I’m a big fan of mini games like this, and I was always a huge fan of Lunar Lander etc which this game reminds me of. Great polish for a web game too. I made my own[0] Lander clone in PICO-8 a while back and this gave me some fun ideas like the different starting angles/velocities to try recover from. [0] https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=lander2000 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=lander2000

78 points by FrojoS 2y ago

sparrish 2y ago

I can't get the game to start. <space> doesn't do anything.

FrojoS 2y ago
Weird. It works for me. Chrome on OS X. M1 Mac Air.
estebarb 2y ago
In the cellphone works well. Just needed like 10 attempts for landing it haha
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mikehostetler 2y ago

this is so much fun

jaimehrubiks 2y ago

it's very hard!

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arendtio 2y ago

Hm, in Chromium it doesn't take the space-button and in Firefox it takes the space-button, but all I see is the HUD, to I can see the booster orientation, but nothing more, so it crashes. Both on an Arch Linux Desktop PC. Edit: There are several shader-related errors in the Firefox console like (NVIDIA GPU): Hidden/PostProcessing/MultiScaleVO shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)

mlindner 2y ago

Was the link changed? I thought it pointed to SpaceX's official game: https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/ https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/

dotnet00 2y ago
It looks like both games ended up being released at the same time

foreverobama 2y ago

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mlindner 2y ago

The physics of this game (on mechazilla.io) feels broken. If the rocket starts rotating it just keeps rotating which is not how physics works. The rocket from its motion would weather vane to it's velocity vector in reality, but it doesn't.

teractiveodular 2y ago
If your rocket starts rotating, you're screwed anyway.
tomxor 2y ago
It feels intuitive to me. I think you need to consider gravity, if you've ever tried to balance a broom stick on one finger you get a similar effect, your finger is the thrust.

jmkd 2y ago

Great diversion! Level 10...no thanks...

jmchambers 2y ago

Fun little game. Love the attention to detail when you clip the tower. Hopefully SpaceX won't need to make final-approach corrections quite as drastic as these though - could get rather expensive if so...

tomxor 2y ago

Finished 20 but found level 14 the hardest, tower arm kept breaking off. Last few levels are pretty fun.

Gravityloss 2y ago
Got up to level 13, it is pretty hard. Interesting choices you have to make, horizontal speed vs vertical.

cr125rider 2y ago

I couldn’t get this to work in Brave or Firefox on Linux or iOS. I still got round 1 though lol. Must be a gimme

xunil2ycom 2y ago

Still waiting for faa approval. Very realistic game.

HeralFacker 2y ago

Where is the transparency statement about whether or not this is farming flight data for one of the for-profit rocket companies?

rkagerer 2y ago

The Starlink trains are a nice touch.

antoniuschan99 2y ago

Here's level 20 https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt Godspeed IFT-5

senectus1 2y ago

Doesnt seem to work on Chrome on Linux Works on Firefox but is very low frames. unplayable.

sen 2y ago

Just completed the whole game in iPhone/Safari. Was very difficult but very fun. I’m a big fan of mini games like this, and I was always a huge fan of Lunar Lander etc which this game reminds me of. Great polish for a web game too. I made my own[0] Lander clone in PICO-8 a while back and this gave me some fun ideas like the different starting angles/velocities to try recover from. [0] https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=lander2000 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=lander2000