Sunday

Game Idea – Sandbox Flight Simulator

Filed under Game Ideas

Here’s a thought I had for a game/sim awhile ago, and it’s the first entry in the “Game Ideas” category.  I’ve long since passed the point of contemplating the likelyhood of making this myself in any way shape or form so like most all posts in this category, here it is as a free range idea. Someone make this. Give me a free copy and we’re good.

The basic thought is a sandbox/building/flight sim combination. I know what you’re thinking, they’ll line up in droves for that but wait it gets even more niche-elitist. The idea is to give the player a space in which to build and test aircraft of their own designs, both offline and online in a way that’s more like character creator we’ve seen in the Spore than anything else. Time for outloud thinking/typing.

Perhaps there’s different levels of entry such that there might be a “Free Build” mode which give you access to all the bits and pieces for making an airplane. A huge assortment of wings, bodies, tails, cockpits, engines etc all of which have a certain weight cost to them as well as different properties that would add or take away from a proposed airframe. The “sim” aspect would need to tally the proper weight distribution, thrust available, wing lift etc in real time so that if a real world version of a players aircraft would be tail heavy and unstable, it would also be so within the sim. So say I take bits and pieces to make a Cessna type aircraft, but the wing I’ve chosen just doesn’t generate enough lift. Perhaps there’s an option for an in-game helper to teach you this stuff, but better yet you find out when you do the flight testing, which is the next bit. Continue…