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

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by vunderba

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Nice job. A few years back I saw a Reddit post/game about using a mobile phone’s accelerometer to control a browser-based racing game on a separate monitor, we need more games in this space.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevscreens/comments/suwgqi/i_am...
https://www.collisio.club/game
Feedback
- The pink trees on Sakura really need to be fixed. The leaves themselves are offset in a strange way, they’re not centered on the actual trunk.
- It would be helpful to have a way to detect if the phone isn’t in landscape mode and prompt the user to rotate. It’s a small thing, but it would be a nice quality-of-life improvement.
- The sausage fingers hands are... distracting. I’d consider remodeling them.

by b4rtaz__

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Nice project! I'm working on something similar, but I have different kind of games: https://padlessbox.com/
The downside is that that kind of games where you have separated joystick and the "projector", you need to have multiple servers to reduce latency for players. So if the game is for multiregion you need to have multiple servers.

by andersa

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There need to be better instructions that you have to open the web page on your computer first, opening the link on the phone directly appears useless as it just displays a qr code on the phone.

by Geee

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Motion control doesn't seem to work on iPhone / Safari.

by Vaslo

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When I open it on my phone it just gives me a QR code, but I’m already on my phone and I can’t find another way to start. What am I doing wrong?

by jacknews

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I've seen several of these 'party games', either standalone or platforms, but they all seem to use phones as controllers.
Are there any that can use browsers as controllers? For schools for example? Also something like the star-trek bridge-sims.