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oeziyesterday at 11:15 AM5 repliesview on HN

19:50 Put codex and claude (thinking high) to work in parallel to see who could come up with the better physically accurate mindless tapping orbital mechanics sandbox.

20:10 Both codex and claude finish pretty much at the same time, but my kids say claude's version is more fun.

20:50 Claude runs out of its 5h session limit while finetuning some things, while Codex has 80% left (!).

https://coezbek.github.io/orbital-tap/


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47282847yesterday at 9:35 PM

Nice! For my taste you could remove the TAP OR PRESS bar after some time, maybe after score 3 or so including restarts.

RobotToasteryesterday at 12:12 PM

Unfortunately it doesn't let you skip planets.

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progvalyesterday at 11:55 AM

It's still pretty far physically accurate because there is infinite acceleration the moment a ship reaches the target orbit.

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throwthrowuknowyesterday at 12:08 PM

I like this version of the game more, keep at it!

love2readyesterday at 2:02 PM

This version is better than OP’s