Airport Simulator - Hacker News

Posted by apunen 1 day ago

Airport Simulator(airport.apunen.com)

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haunter 1 day ago|

If you like this I highly recommend the Air Traffic Controller series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Traffic_Controller_(series...

https://www.sonicpowered.co.jp/world/nsw/rjgg/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1348390/I_am_an_Air_Traff...

hexator 20 hours ago||

I love this emerging "3D pixel art" trend. Stylized graphics always age better than realistic. And it definitely has more charm

BigDataNinja 19 hours ago||

There was a game for the C64 (or VIC20.. I forget) in which your were an ATC. I remember either the packaging for the game or the credits on screen saying something to the effect of "If you like this game, call us". "Us" being a number to contact the FAA for a potential job.

projektfu 2 hours ago|

If you like this game, call us! The President just fired all our controllers.

przemub 1 day ago||

I love the airport style, bilingual interface. One of my favourite parts of flying is getting to see different combinations of languages on the signs!

exDM69 1 day ago||

Absolutely delightful, just played a few rounds.

I really love ATC games and the "draw it by hand" aspect makes this kinda funny. Maybe I need to try with a real mouse, kinda slow on a trackpad. For a more serious entrant in this genre (with speeds, altitudes and radio navigation), check out Endless ATC on Steam.

I landed some 40 flights and made it near the top of the leaderboard.

The scoreboard is taking too much screen space and occluding the planes, would be better to have scores at the top or bottom.

apunen 1 day ago|

added a button to hide the scoreboard on desktop!

exDM69 1 hour ago||

Thanks for listening to feedback. Seems like you've made many improvements since yesterday.

I played a few more rounds today. Fun!

jmkni 1 day ago||

Fun little game

However I notice people have realized they can set their own score with an HTTP request (I mean, it's Hacker News), maybe put in some sort of mitigation?

naet 16 hours ago|

In my experience there is little you can do to "mitigate" that kind of thing outside of running the game completely server-side, which usually makes a tiny project into a much larger undertaking.

pardon_me 11 hours ago||

Recording the game start and end time server-side to perform a plausibility check of submitted score vs. time played would help, but this would require tracking individual users games, and still doesn't solve the problem entirely.

Rotundo 1 day ago||

Looks like Kennedy Approach from mumble years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgi2fuSL9tk&t=28s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Approach

cebert 1 day ago||

When I was growing up, there were two airport simulator games that were pretty fun to play. One of them I remember playing on my Sega Genesis.

mathgeek 1 day ago|

Aerobiz? I had forgotten about that one, such an awesome game. Rented it from Blockbuster many times.

cebert 18 hours ago||

Yes! That’s it. I forgot the name, but it was fun.

heresalexandria 1 day ago||

This is super fun! Could be neat to add keyboard controls for auto routing (i.e. select plane number n and auto route it to strip x or have it fly a go-around to wait). Would also be sick if you added models of real world airports to play.

That said I love this as is and will definitely be playing & sharing it.

mrkpdl 1 day ago|

I still miss flight control, seems wrong that such an important early iPhone OS game is just… gone.

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