US Astronaut Gene Cernan (pictured here on the left) was a man who was very good at going fast. Not only does he have the land speed record on the Moon (18kph, Apollo 17), he's also clocked the fastest speed that any human has ever flown (39,897kph, Apollo 10). Now it's your turn to see if you can keep up!
Instructions
- Left and right to move.
- Up and down increase/decrease gravity. (As far as I can tell, Gene isn't able to do this, but we need to level the playing field somehow.)
- Collect stopwatches to get more time.
- High scores reset and the course changes approximately every new moon.
Good luck!
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Came across this fun little algorithm today, thought I'd try it out.
Left and right rotate the camera, up moves forward.
Some serious artifacts going on still, but I'm fairly happy with how simple it was to implement. Had some fun generating the maps as well.
Messing around with some collision detection. Up and down modify gravity, left and right push the ball in the corresponding direction.
Code is a mess, read at your own risk. Currently only handles static obstacles -- shouldn't be too hard to add once you know the contact point but didn't really feel the need, I've already had my fun with it :)
Happy worm moon, everyone! Celebrating with a not-quite-a-tweetcart. No interaction, just good moon vibes.
1000% sure this could be more efficient with some clever use of tline... maybe one day I'll sit down and look through krajzeg's brilliant Blue Marble and figure something out.
Original image credit belongs to NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. I highly recommend fiddling around with their CGI Moon Kit.
