Hello Sebastian; and thanks for sharing your project!
My specs: CPU: i7-10875H GPU: NVidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super with 8GB VRam and 32 GB RAM. I had no (Technical) problems running the game... It really booted my fans, though; it felt like a jet engine... (Free SFX, I guess? :) )
I only had one slight glitch; the atmosphere seems to flickered once or twice, within a half an hour session or so. It didn't appear frequently, only a couple of times.
As for the gameplay, I see this game as a nice educational tool. I also join DeemanInSpace; it is quite easy to get lost while flying blindly, especially when it is night time. Switching between overhead & chase cameras sometimes cause the player to lose orientation, as the overhead camera tends to end up on a weird angle - not following any cardinal direction or anything.
A compass would've helped a lot for directions. For example, a simple compass ring around our craft should both help us navigate, and keep our eyes on the craft. For chase cam, you can either show the heading slightly ahead of the craft, or even behind it... Latter is similar to how SCUBA dive compasses work:
The bottom picture shows the side window, where the diver can simply hold the compass towards the intended heading, and easily check the compass while swimming.
Another helper might be having the overhead camera always orient itself in such a way, that its topside is facing north, like an actual map...
Note that both solutions will create a new problem at the poles, where the compass/camera will swing around very rapidly... It isn't a problem for the compass, but the camera might need its rotation speed can be adjusted to make it less nauseating.
The city locations might've hinted better... One can get a hint at the night time, but the aforementioned disorientation is also effective at night.
Thanks again for sharing! I love watching your coding adventures, and it is nice to have a taste of it after all :D
i don't think a phone is strong enough to run something like this. i mean idk the system requirements but i'm pretty sure it's more than my pc's specs. so no. it will probably not be on phone
It is frustrating to see that the package didnt land where you wanted it to, because the plane controls are annoying (why can I not slow down? I can speed up, but why not slow down??) and then get told that you did a "disastrous delivery".
Just press 'Q' to get a bird's eye view, and when you pass over the place, press space to deliver the package, it isn't really affected by momentum and wind
That is really a nice idea, I think my son, when he was a little younger would have loved it.
The Orientation sometimes is a little hard, so it would be nice to have at least a compass. And I am sure that most of the people (also me) can´t make out, where exact the cities in the countries are. So it would be a goal, to Detail the Main cities a bit and to name them, and also the countries. The next step would be to land at an airport of such a city. Also to make the flight less fast, I mean adjustable.
And you have to add a sound, motor, wind, and how about the weather and influence on the airplane ?
You see I am fascinated by your work! Go ahead, I love this a tiny little world...
On linux sky is not working properly with stars and i could'nt deliver any package, but is still a great experience, i love your content and i wish i could do 50% of what you do.
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yoga slim 7 lenovo laptop works well ;)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
RAM: 32GB
Windows 10
Had no trouble whatsoever. The game runs very smoothly.
I'm having a lot of fun :)
Runs perfectly on Mac m1 pro 10/16.
Thanks to Mark in the comments below for the permission change command to allow mac OS to run it.
how do i deliver tho
Hello Sebastian; and thanks for sharing your project!
My specs: CPU: i7-10875H GPU: NVidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super with 8GB VRam and 32 GB RAM. I had no (Technical) problems running the game... It really booted my fans, though; it felt like a jet engine... (Free SFX, I guess? :) )
I only had one slight glitch; the atmosphere seems to flickered once or twice, within a half an hour session or so. It didn't appear frequently, only a couple of times.
As for the gameplay, I see this game as a nice educational tool. I also join DeemanInSpace; it is quite easy to get lost while flying blindly, especially when it is night time. Switching between overhead & chase cameras sometimes cause the player to lose orientation, as the overhead camera tends to end up on a weird angle - not following any cardinal direction or anything.
A compass would've helped a lot for directions. For example, a simple compass ring around our craft should both help us navigate, and keep our eyes on the craft. For chase cam, you can either show the heading slightly ahead of the craft, or even behind it... Latter is similar to how SCUBA dive compasses work:
The bottom picture shows the side window, where the diver can simply hold the compass towards the intended heading, and easily check the compass while swimming.
Another helper might be having the overhead camera always orient itself in such a way, that its topside is facing north, like an actual map...
Note that both solutions will create a new problem at the poles, where the compass/camera will swing around very rapidly... It isn't a problem for the compass, but the camera might need its rotation speed can be adjusted to make it less nauseating.
The city locations might've hinted better... One can get a hint at the night time, but the aforementioned disorientation is also effective at night.
Thanks again for sharing! I love watching your coding adventures, and it is nice to have a taste of it after all :D
For those on macOS getting the "The application 'Geographical Adventures' can’t be opened." error, run the following command in Terminal:
chmod a+x /Applications/Geographical\ Adventures.app/Contents/MacOS/*
Also, you will need to explicitly allow the app to run in "Security & Privacy" settings.
And, to do the second part: right click on the app and select open
Thank you. Was able to get it running in macOS Sonoma (14.0) thanks to this advice.
Android Please
i don't think a phone is strong enough to run something like this. i mean idk the system requirements but i'm pretty sure it's more than my pc's specs. so no. it will probably not be on phone
lol musk's pi phone prob can
It is frustrating to see that the package didnt land where you wanted it to, because the plane controls are annoying (why can I not slow down? I can speed up, but why not slow down??) and then get told that you did a "disastrous delivery".
Just press 'Q' to get a bird's eye view, and when you pass over the place, press space to deliver the package, it isn't really affected by momentum and wind
brilliant as always
That is really a nice idea, I think my son, when he was a little younger would have loved it.
The Orientation sometimes is a little hard, so it would be nice to have at least a compass. And I am sure that most of the people (also me) can´t make out, where exact the cities in the countries are. So it would be a goal, to Detail the Main cities a bit and to name them, and also the countries.
The next step would be to land at an airport of such a city. Also to make the flight less fast, I mean adjustable.
And you have to add a sound, motor, wind, and how about the weather and influence on the airplane ?
You see I am fascinated by your work! Go ahead, I love this a tiny little world...
How do i drop the Packages?
space-bar
I'm always impressed by your work, and this one is no exception.
The map looks really good! So relaxing to travel around the globe...
Well done!
So cool, ty Seb.
The performace seem good, 300 fps o a latop
For anyone wondering.
I got a 1660 Ti and a Ryzen 7 3700X and it runs really smooth
True work of beauty and piece of art.
On linux sky is not working properly with stars and i could'nt deliver any package, but is still a great experience, i love your content and i wish i could do 50% of what you do.
Much love from Brazil <3
It seems to be because of no AsyncGPUReadBack in OpenGL, try the Windows build in Wine
Thank you, should be fixed in the linux build now if you download it again
Very cool project!
Tried the linux version and the atmosphere wasn't rendering properly. Still very enjoyable and pretty!
Thank you, should be fixed now!
Love it and love your content.
Tried to download the linux version which seems to be broken (atmosphere not rendering correctly)
but the windows version did work well through wine
Whoa it's even better in person.
Also, for any mac users, extract with the Unarchiver and not the default utility.
THANK YOU! I was getting tired of searching, this should be in the description, as a big warning ahaha thank you!
Love your videos! Hyped to finally play it :D