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Show HN: Addictive little browser game involving gravity
A single-file HTML5 canvas application (~1200 lines of JavaScript, no dependencies, less than 50KB in size): in a randomly generated universe, you pilot a ship using Newtonian physics: gravity pulls you in, atmospheric drag slows you down, and you have limited thrust fuel that depletes your score when used. Don't crash! It's a proof of concept, a game created with Claude AI in about 10 minutes (and further enhanced).
- gus_massa 8mo agoThe outher limit is too big for my mobile. Does the atmospheric drag apply only in the circle? Perhaps you can paint it in very dark blue.
- amiralul 8mo agoYeah, it’s not really optimized for mobile, most of testing was done playing on a computer, with keyboard and proper display. I think it’s not really suited for mobile, it’s frustrating on a PC as well, I can’t see myself playing it on mobile. Yes, atmospheric drag applies in the circle.
- gus_massa 8mo agoOh, it's much easier on the keyboard. Minor feature request: In the start when there are three buttons to pick the mode, I 'd like to use the mouse. Big feature request: I made a similar simulator a long time ago, and I wished to add an option to show the expected trajectory in the future as a help. Also, show the trajectory in case I press up and in case I press down, so I can get some intuition about the change of the trajectory. (I'm not sure if it's possible to do this fast enough. I never added it to my simulator.)