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ESSOR: thirteen vintage airliners built in code
A browser game of old airliners built part by part with Claude Code, now gaining hand flying over a real-world map.
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ESSOR is a browser game with 13 old airliners, from the 1919 Goliath on, each built in code part by part. They used to fly on a round diorama stand over a shrunken map, and the maker is adding hand flying over the real world at full scale.
The maker picks the aircraft, finds the drawings, decides how each should look and fly, and tests every build, while Claude Code writes most of the code and test scripts. The hard parts: fitting the planet in about 500 MB using OpenStreetMap roads and Copernicus land cover, cutting towns back to their 1975 size, and baking land cover into terrain tiles because the ground shader had run out of texture slots. Hand flying is not public yet; the diorama is playable.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Rebuilding old airliners with Claude Code. This month they leave the diorama and fly over the real wReddit poster: Sokratis9Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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