|
| QuiCasseRien wrote:
| Extremly addictive p
| FigmentEngine wrote:
| 671 flips, lol
| zamadatix wrote:
| Crashing sideways is fun, the exploded parts continue to wrap
| around the screen if you "land" fast enough :D.
| mousetree wrote:
| Had a lot of fun
| [deleted]
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Awesoem job! Thanks for sharing!!
| frutiger wrote:
| Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
| Score: 345.1 point crash Speed: 2928.9mph Angle:
| 175.6deg Time: 696 seconds Flips: 28 Max
| speed: 2928.9mph Max height: 299886ft Engine
| used: 37 times Boosters used: 194 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| LorenDB wrote:
| I'd love to see an indicator showing how quickly you are
| rotating. That would make the final touchdown a lot easier to get
| straight, IMO.
|
| Also, could the trajectory stay visible at all times? That would
| help plan burns better.
| ehmorris wrote:
| If you clone the repo and remove this condition you can try the
| trajectory at all times: https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-
| lander/blob/master/lander/...
|
| IMO it looked like a big noodle, and the "needle" at the bottom
| bounces around distractingly. Plus, without the help all the
| time, it's a little harder!
| markm248 wrote:
| Way more fun if you try to see high you can get your crash score.
| 26.3 personal best
| playingalong wrote:
| 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).
| boomlinde wrote:
| 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.
| boomlinde wrote:
| I like this kind of game, and this is perfect for a short
| diversion! This is the best I can muster for now:
| Very nice landing, amazing Score: 90.1 point landing
| Speed: 2.8mph Angle: 0.4deg Time: 9 seconds
| Flips: 0 Max speed: 38.7mph Max height: 240ft
| Engine used: 10 times Boosters used: 10 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| warent wrote:
| 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: 9.5deg Time: 62
| seconds Flips: 18 Max speed: 86.8mph Max
| height: 1276ft Engine used: 32 times Boosters used:
| 55 times
| russellbeattie wrote:
| 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.
| marcodiego wrote:
| Suggestion of improvement: landing should only be successful if
| lateral velocity is inside a limit.
| ehmorris wrote:
| 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.
| siliconsorcerer wrote:
| Had a ton of fun with this :) thanks!
| bxparks wrote:
| Awesome, the highest crash landing speed I was able to achieve
| was 97.7 MPH after about 20-30 attempts.
| [deleted]
| bxparks wrote:
| I went off screen, turned around and crashed at 394.6 MPH.
| ehmorris wrote:
| This, and going sideways really really fast is the way. The
| highest I've seen is 1500mph.
| bxparks wrote:
| 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?
| ehmorris wrote:
| 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!
| [deleted]
| exebook wrote:
| Wanted to play, but after the tutorial a first touch makes the
| ship disappear. When I reload the page, I can see the ship again,
| and the landing curve, then again if I touch the screen
| everything disappear except for the stars.
| ehmorris wrote:
| Ah! If you've got a console error I'd appreciate it
| ehmorris wrote:
| Think I figured it out
| ziedaniel1 wrote:
| I enjoyed the easter eggs!
| pmx wrote:
| Had a great time seeing how fast I could make it go!
|
| Impressive speed, impressive angle - you crashed with style
|
| Score: 89.2 point crash Speed: 761.4mph Angle: 41.4deg Time: 82
| seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 761.4mph Max height: 344ft Engine
| used: 97 times Boosters used: 45 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| ehmorris wrote:
| Very nice, did you hear the baby at the 400mph mark?
| pmx wrote:
| I did wonder what that sound was!
| ehmorris wrote:
| That's my baby
| basicallydan wrote:
| 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!
| minitoar wrote:
| lol I sort of thought that was my baby on the monitor
| FuckShadowBans2 wrote:
| [dead]
| Evidlo wrote:
| The lander disappears as soon as I touch the controls and never
| crashes. Iceraven 1.14.0/Android 11
| [deleted]
| timbeccue wrote:
| Love this! Very simple and creative. A solid "C"
| landing Score: 71.9 point landing Speed: 4.7mph
| Angle: 2.5deg Time: 276 seconds Flips: 27 Max
| speed: 114.4mph Max height: 1323ft Engine used: 58
| times Boosters used: 63 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Perfect landing, incredible, you can't get better than this
| Score: 99.2 point landing Speed: 1.0mph Angle: 0.2deg
| Time: 52 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 31.5mph
| Max height: 389ft Engine used: 99 times Boosters
| used: 7 times https://ehmorris.com/lander/
|
| I think my initial conditions were advantageous..
|
| Great game!
| gavmor wrote:
| Apparently, it's all about feathering the throttle. Very nice!
|
| Near-perfect landing, super smooth
|
| Score: 96.5 point landing Speed: 1.1mph Angle: 0.7deg Time: 45
| seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 43.7mph Max height: 256ft Engine
| used: 73 times Boosters used: 37 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
|
| ---
|
| I see it took you about seven months from "Initial Commit" to its
| current state. How did you stay on track all that time?
| ehmorris wrote:
| Yes but you can also compete on using as little
| throttle/booster as possible! IMO the perfect landing is one
| where you engage the engine at the exact right moment to touch
| down at <1mph, and you engage a booster only once in order to
| be upright. Engine and booster use aren't part of the score
| though.
|
| The older commits were part of a previous idea that I
| abandoned, then a few weeks ago I deleted almost everything and
| gave it another try.
|
| Thanks for playing!
| moron4hire wrote:
| Yeah, but how many times can you flip the rocket?
| lagrange77 wrote:
| > IMO the perfect landing is one where you engage the engine
| at the exact right moment to touch down at <1mph, and you
| engage a booster only once in order to be upright.
|
| Would be interesting to see, if optimal control would do just
| that or use many short bursts.
| jefc1111 wrote:
| Fun! I'd like to get a bonus for rotations in both directions.
| ehmorris wrote:
| I had a 1 point bonus for flips in the score but ended up
| removing it because it felt too overpowered. But! Having a good
| score AND flips is impressive in itself.
| dsego wrote:
| How is this a crash, because of the angle? So,
| so close to a landing, but still a crash Score: 1.6
| point crash Speed: 2.5mph Angle: 12.2deg
| Time: 20 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 34.5mph
| Max height: 221ft Engine used: 20 times Boosters
| used: 14 times https://ehmorris.com/lander/
|
| This is my best attempt for now: A good
| landing, keep trying Score: 84.1 point landing
| Speed: 4.5mph Angle: 0.0deg Time: 23 seconds
| Flips: 0 Max speed: 32.5mph Max height: 221ft
| Engine used: 26 times Boosters used: 13 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| dsego wrote:
| New personal best! Very nice landing, amazing
| Score: 92.2 point landing Speed: 0.5mph Angle: 2.2deg Time: 25
| seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 25.8mph Max height: 221ft Engine
| used: 27 times Boosters used: 25 times
| ehmorris wrote:
| Yep the angle can't exceed 12
| nfriend wrote:
| Love it! It's like a cross between Flappy Bird and Asteroids.
| Nice tutorial at the beginning, too.
|
| Just managed to get a 98.5, which I think was mostly luck.
| djmips wrote:
| The amazing thing is all these lunar lander games are harder than
| actually landing the lunar lander that landed on the moon. That's
| right it used a computer stabilized system and featured a fully
| automatic landing program however every lander was actually
| landed in the semi automatic mode where the pilot controlled the
| descent but the attitude was still maintained by computer.
| lagrange77 wrote:
| And they used an analog computer to integrate and display the
| landing trajectory in real-time, just like in this game iirc.
| [deleted]
| bluedonuts wrote:
| Basically a fender bender, but you landed
|
| Score: 53.6 point landing Speed: 9.8mph Angle: 1.4deg Time: 566
| seconds Flips: 182 Max speed: 635.2mph Max height: 62510ft Engine
| used: 109 times Boosters used: 145 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| sporadicallyjoe wrote:
| Tons of fun aiming for the different types of high scores. Here
| are mine:
|
| 131 point crash - https://i.ibb.co/YdJ1c8B/131.png 426 max speed
| landing - https://i.ibb.co/5k5Csjt/Max-Speed426.png
| [deleted]
| placatedmayhem wrote:
| This feels like an achievement: Unbelievable, the
| crater is visible from Earth Score: 190.2 point
| crash Speed: 1612.3mph Angle: 98.6deg Time: 220
| seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 1612.3mph Max
| height: 4534ft Engine used: 15 times Boosters used:
| 129 times https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| ehmorris wrote:
| This is the fastest I've ever seen!
| ccoggins wrote:
| Fun game! After climbing to 1 million feet, it took over
| 500,000 more to finally reverse direction with the ship
| pointed down and the engines firing.
| Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
| Score: 869.4 point crash Speed: 7757.3mph Angle:
| 62.2deg Time: 1319 seconds Flips: 0 Max
| speed: 7757.3mph Max height: 1549465ft Engine
| used: 11 times Boosters used: 351 times
| https://ehmorris.com/lander/
| ehmorris wrote:
| Wow, I need to make a new crash blurb
| keyle wrote:
| Good fun. A couple of ideas, zoom in as you approach the landing
| site, it's hard to see the difference between 4mph and 1mph; and
| consider having no landing spots, like craters or sharp edges;
| finally, some slow flying asteroids to avoid every once and a
| while. Consider planting a little flag from previous landing or
| tombs on crash sites on restart, to have some continuity. :)
| antiquark wrote:
| This is like KSP but without the fun.
| LorenDB wrote:
| I wouldn't say without the fun... It makes for a good
| reinforcement of my landing skillz.
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