Free Starship Booster catching arcade game

(mechazilla.io)

65 points | by FrojoS 15 hours ago ago

20 comments

  • antoniuschan99 an hour ago ago

    Here's level 20 https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt

    Godspeed IFT-5

  • arendtio 12 hours ago ago

    Hm, in Chromium it doesn't take the space-button and in Firefox it takes the space-button, but all I see is the HUD, to I can see the booster orientation, but nothing more, so it crashes. Both on an Arch Linux Desktop PC.

    Edit: There are several shader-related errors in the Firefox console like (NVIDIA GPU):

      Hidden/PostProcessing/MultiScaleVO shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)
  • jmchambers 11 hours ago ago

    Fun little game. Love the attention to detail when you clip the tower. Hopefully SpaceX won't need to make final-approach corrections quite as drastic as these though - could get rather expensive if so...

  • senectus1 42 minutes ago ago

    Doesnt seem to work on Chrome on Linux

    Works on Firefox but is very low frames. unplayable.

  • HeralFacker 4 hours ago ago

    Where is the transparency statement about whether or not this is farming flight data for one of the for-profit rocket companies?

  • sparrish 13 hours ago ago

    I can't get the game to start. <space> doesn't do anything.

    • estebarb 13 hours ago ago

      In the cellphone works well. Just needed like 10 attempts for landing it haha

    • FrojoS 13 hours ago ago

      Weird. It works for me. Chrome on OS X. M1 Mac Air.

  • rkagerer 2 hours ago ago

    The Starlink trains are a nice touch.

  • xunil2ycom 5 hours ago ago

    Still waiting for faa approval. Very realistic game.

  • cr125rider 9 hours ago ago

    I couldn’t get this to work in Brave or Firefox on Linux or iOS. I still got round 1 though lol. Must be a gimme

  • tomxor 11 hours ago ago

    Finished 20 but found level 14 the hardest, tower arm kept breaking off. Last few levels are pretty fun.

    • Gravityloss 10 hours ago ago

      Got up to level 13, it is pretty hard. Interesting choices you have to make, horizontal speed vs vertical.

  • jmkd 12 hours ago ago

    Great diversion! Level 10...no thanks...

  • mikehostetler 13 hours ago ago

    this is so much fun

  • mlindner 12 hours ago ago

    Was the link changed? I thought it pointed to SpaceX's official game: https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/

    • dotnet00 8 hours ago ago

      It looks like both games ended up being released at the same time

  • mlindner 12 hours ago ago

    The physics of this game (on mechazilla.io) feels broken. If the rocket starts rotating it just keeps rotating which is not how physics works. The rocket from its motion would weather vane to it's velocity vector in reality, but it doesn't.

    • teractiveodular 11 hours ago ago

      If your rocket starts rotating, you're screwed anyway.

  • jaimehrubiks 13 hours ago ago

    it's very hard!