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Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D

simdrive.xyz
21 points·by 1000xcat·vor 3 Monaten·18 comments

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1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Motion control on Safari is also fixed now!

Users on this browser will see a big button that triggers a permission prompt that the other browsers didn't need and that I thought just didn't work on Safari
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Thank you very much for trying and taking the time to give feedback :D

I'm sorry about the issues

I've made it a lot more clear that it's a computer screen + phone controller

And the safari browser was a little tricky and needed an extra permission, so now users on safari will see a big button to enable tilt steering

I hope you find it a lot better and I am also planning a much better tutorial screen to test the tilt steering and controls before the game starts
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Yes there's quite a few! Check out vibej.am for a bunch of single screen browser games

And I'm also working simdrive being mobile only if players want but that won't work for schools (unless...)
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Yo that's cool nice work! Snake is my favourite one :D

And hmm I think not really; try having on one server and see how it goes

Right now I'm hosting on just a single server but could also be that I don't have issues because I don't have a lot of concurrent players but personally I think easiest to stick with bigger server unless I run into problems where I really need to
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
My bad thank you for the useful feedback, I've added this :D

Now when you start a game in mobile, it'll explain clearly this is a two screen game and it should be opened on desktop/tablet

Btw, I am working on a single screen mobile only version too now thanks to yours and a few other comments
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
My apologies, the instructions I had were not clear

This is currently a two screen game where a desktop/tablet screen is the main screen where one would start the game and then use the QR code to pair the phone as a controller for the car (no installs, all in the browser)

I've updated the instructions now so that if you start on mobile it'll explain this clearly :D
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Fixed, sorry about that; it was a regression bug :(

Bug was live for about a day before a friend caught it. I thought her phone was out of date lol but then someone else said it too so I double checked
1000xcat
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
wow i had no idea, thanks! tried collisio too, i love the tiny cars haha

> pink trees it was supposed to be a tunnel sorta things but that was bad - fixed!

> landscape mode prompt also added; yes that's a good quality-of-life improvement

> sausage hands lmao yes this is a little tricky but i think i'll leave the default to no hands for now

thanks a lot for trying it out and giving useful feedback, much appreciated and means a lot! :D
1000xcat
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
It took me a while to realise that most people don't care how it's done or how it works they just want something useful and working (even if it's vibe coded or duct taped)