u/KipperUK

I’m a glider pilot, and I race in competitions where the idea is to get your engineless aircraft around a set route in the fastest time possible, without ending up in a farmers field waiting for your crew to pick you up.

I thought it would make a good little browser game; so I made it.

The idea is simple - you get a set “task”, get to the start, hit all the turns, get to the finish and see how fast you were. You do this by setting how fast you’re going to fly (more speed costs more height) and when you’re going to stop to climb (under clouds, not all are created equally).

Interested to know what you think, especially casual gamers who don’t do this for real.

It’s at dontlandout.com

I may have gone off a bit half cocked last night when I realised thanks to the comment that I'd entirely failed to test it on a mobile device.

So now v2 ... now playable on mobile viewports.

Also:
- Wind to make it a bit more interesting
- AI is now a bit more competitive (though still reasonably easy to beat, they are mainly there as a gaggle)
- Bugfixes around thermal strengths showing where they shouldn't
- You don't get full thermal boost unless you stop and climb in it

I have had a few further thoughts on what could be done with this, and that's principally a "daily challenge" type game where everyone gets the same task each day, and fastest round wins the day - with awards for longest final glide, fastest final glide, lowest save, best height reached, etc.

I assume most people that clicked through on v1 did so on a mobile and bounced out without being able to make it work, so please give it another try!

Clear your cache (shift+refresh) to get the latest version: https://dontlandout.com

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My other half has a cleaning business; she currently servers around 100 clients with about 9 staff on various numbers of contracted hours.

She makes the schedule work, but it's all in her head - which staff work when, which customers prefer which days, which team, and so on. So when she asked me if I could help rejig her plan to accommodate her latest hire and next set of customers off the waiting list... I couldn't.

She normally just shuffles things around in Zenmaid, I took one look at the interface and thought... ewww.

My questions were - how does she know she's picked the right set of customers that are close to each other, that she's not paying a team for hours they're not working? How much travel time there is, and based on rates and wages, how much profit there is in a shift before other business costs?

Being of the techie persuasion, I built her a little tool to help put the schedules together, and I wondered if there might be a product in it - so I'm looking for a few small ish cleaning companies with 3-10 staff that would be willing to try it out and offer a bit of feedback.

Let me know if interested.

UPDATE: Now functional on a mobile, but the UI is more designed for a large screen.

So, I was experimenting with ideas for a browser based game and came up with this.... It's a little er.. cross country decision making simulator?

The idea is, you set your speed and pick your next move - do you stop and circle, or do you fly on to the next forming cloud, or into the blue? Everything will cost you height or time, and the idea is to get around your randomly generated task as fast as possible.

I thought it was quite fun to play - possibly has some educational value as well.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this, but it exists, so I thought I'd share. Feedback appreciated.

https://xc-game-965190392438.europe-west1.run.app

https://preview.redd.it/lbev3dnfcw9h1.png?width=3342&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5ddeb9510e35ed5ce8ad25357cfafc73be3d622