Fly By
retro biplane flying game
Details
- External ID
- 49519101
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fly By
- Website domain
- michaelteter.com
- Launched
- Sept. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 84
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9074960127591707
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
Feedback welcome. Best on desktop. Works on mobile, but needs more polish there.My concept, my guidance, and Gemini Flash doing the work. Took about 4 hours and 50+ conversations with Gemini.Big Kudos to Gemini Flash (since 3.5 and later), because I have had great success with it on many projects.
Enrichment
- Theme
- multimodal AI models and agents
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- retro biplane flying game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The creator explicitly built this retro HTML5 biplane canvas game in 4 hours using Gemini Flash to generate the gameplay and controls.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Wings of Fury, Rogue Aces Deluxe, Triplane Turmoil
Concerns raised: Physics don't feel like actual airplane flight, behaves more like a rocket, AI-generated games lack human effort and taste, Control scheme not intuitive for airplane mechanics
Feature requests: Improve gravity and stall physics, Add wind dynamics and angle of attack mechanics, Dogfights and combat encounters, Multiple levels with different goals and locations, Aircraft carrier landing sequences
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 34 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 35 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Retrodex · hn · 2026-05-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live · ph · 2026-03-27 · 320 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.