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kqrtoday at 8:13 AM1 replyview on HN

Like many side scrolling airplane games, the object controlled in this game behaves a lot more like a rocket than an airplane. I suggest learning a little about the physics of airplanes[1] to improve the feeling of flying.

I made a prototype[2] once (not working on mobile, unfortunately) to show what can be done, and it takes getting a lot of details right![3]

[1]: http://av8n.com/how/

[2]: https://xkqr.org/flightle/

[3]: https://entropicthoughts.com/sidescrolling-flight-simulator


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trencedamptoday at 8:55 AM

Second this. I've been trying to build a casual flying game in unity and getting the physics right is hard.

What I found particularly hard is simulating accurately how gravity works against the aircrafts momentum, and trying to get stall and recovery right