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I made a game using Mapbox GL to have a 3D plane that drops you somewhere in the world, and you have to get home before fuel runs out. No compasses. It’s very much V0 and there’s only one level for now. It’s just a normal map for now, but I think it could be replaced for a map with better features.

https://www.heyraviteja.com/goingbackhome/

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That was brilliant - I don't know the US that well it seems. Ended up on the wrong coast and ran out of fuel. Keep hacking - its got something brilliant at its core :-)

Thanks for the words of encouragement!

Is it possible to get a destination that's impossible to reach with the given fuel?

The game started me roughly over Washington DC and told me I had to get to Dallas, and I barely made it past Nashville (which is almost a straight line) before running out of fuel.

It’s really just a two minute timer. So hopefully it’s enough time. In the future, it’d be cool to make that calculation.

That was a lot of fun! I was very bad at it. The map was slow to load for me, but I think the fuel continuously ran out even when the game was stopped to load? I'm not sure if I would have made it even if I was on the right track

Glad to hear you had fun! Yeah, I’m loading the mapbox stuff as it goes. There didn’t seem to be a good way to preload all the tiles. Thanks for calling out the bugs. I’ll take a look

That was surprisingly fun, I got it after 3 or 4 tries. Keep hacking on it!

Thanks! I’ll keep working on it ;)

Turning is really frustrating it is way to sensetive to make small adjustments. I would suggest 'turn while holding left' rather than 'increase left turn rate while holding left'

I’ve heard mixed feedback on the turning. I think I was caught between 360 rotations vs larger circular rotations. Maybe this will have to be a setting, or I can introduce a rudder.

pretty cool idea. Bugs I found: the airplane is stopping in mid air, the steering is too sensitive, should be much much slower so it feels like a big airplane not small toy

That was great fun, thanks for sharing.

A lot of fun! keep going

Thanks! I’ll keep on it.

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