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Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game

https://michaelteter.com/flyby.html
23•michaelteter•4d ago
Feedback welcome. Best on desktop. Works on mobile, but needs more polish there.

My concept, my guidance, and Gemini Flash doing the work. Took about 4 hours and 50+ conversations with Gemini.

Big Kudos to Gemini Flash (since 3.5 and later), because I have had great success with it on many projects.

Comments

hydropax•4d ago
The scan lines are a great touch. It makes it feel truly retro
carlbvt•4d ago
nice!
vunderba•4d ago
Nice job - it kind of reminds me of the rocket barrel levels in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

Feedback: Consider playing with the physics of the plane depending on your pitch, so that some parts of some levels might require you to deliberately pitch down for a few seconds to build up some "stored speed".

michaelteter•3d ago
It basically does this. If you are in level flight or a dive, you increase speed up to a certain max (level flight max is less than dive max). If you climb, you bleed off speed. To reach high balloons, you often need to build up more speed before you can climb high enough.

There's probably room for improvement, but it's already enough fun that I can play it for several minutes at a time.

Now I'm trying to decide if there's anything else of value to add - without making it too much of anything. I think I'm about finished now.

nometalalchemis•2d ago
What a cool game!
scandox•47m ago
It's no Sopwith
superkuh•44m ago
It is fun. Now make it multiplayer over websockets/etc with some dev controlled signalling server (who peers register with/etc) and STUN check to get peer IPs locally.
Kuyawa•40m ago
Loved it. That's exactly what AI should be used for. Something that would take us one month at least, full of bugs, AI now delivers in less than a day, ready to ship

This is the essence, AI is a super power, the world is ours

ricardobeat•27m ago
Something that would take us one month at least, full of bugs, AI now delivers in less than a day, full of bugs
krapp•24m ago
>This is the essence, AI is a super power, the world is ours

Don't me overdramatic. The guy who made Flappy Bird did it in a weekend without AI. A simple game like this wouldn't be difficult in any modern framework. That it can be vibe-coded in less than a day isn't really much value.

tom_•13m ago
Well I dunno, man, this looks like the sort of amusing prototype I'd expect to take a couple of days - though not to understate the value of getting it in 4 hours. Iteration time is an important factor.

(Regarding the parting shot, I find myself once again, for the numerousth time, reminded of this curious lobsters comment that I'm having difficulty forgetting: https://lobste.rs/s/omq8rt/vibecoding_gets_emacs_patch_rejec... - perhaps not quite entirely directly germane here, I don't think, but, still, somehow, not quite entirely directly not.)

Suhinnall27•39m ago
This was a nice game. It would be cool if you added some more purpose to landing the plane, like if the fuel and throttle were limited, making it actually useful to land it. Overall great game and enjoyable. Also would be nice to get some extra points for doing loop-de-loops or tricks with the plane. A shield power-up is also a great idea.
krapp•26m ago
The fake scanlines and position of the UI elements make them difficult to read. The plane is too slow and its turn radius is too tight, the physics (if there are any) need to be improved to give a sense of weight and velocity to the plane IMO, and that probably necessitates a bigger playfield. Also it feels like it really needs a gun.

Overall it feels like an OK prototype but I agree it needs more polish.

That said, HN is traditionally for sharing code with the community. Maybe for AI submissions people should share their prompts? I don't know. I'd ask to see the code but since you didn't write it you can't really discuss it.

noir_lord•12m ago
> I don't know. I'd ask to see the code but since you didn't write it you can't really discuss it.

Brusque but not inaccurate, Welcome to our future I guess.

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