Skydiving Simulation PC game

I have been toying with the idea of writing a skydiving game for the PC for quite sometime now as i think it has not been done before ( i can't find anything ..apart from a simulation where you actually hang in )

I want it to be a simulation game and not arcade type game, I have allot of ideas for it but as i dont skydive myself (and don't really want to try ) I was wondering if anyone has some free time to chat about skydiving in more details ...please feel free to post what you would like in the game ,

this is some of the things i am planning on doing :

Full physics simulated (air pressure , drag , etc all changing depending on height etc ) so you will be able to do some 30k + dives
As many skydiving moves
Full ground details of landing area etc.
You will see your self in the plane before jumping etc.
Network play ! , allowing formations to be practiced etc (over the net)
Some sort of challage play (flying through hoops on the way down/target landing ?? idea's welcome)

Now to be honest I can see myself not finishing the game without the help of some people who know about skydiving, as i dont know enough to complete it.

So what do people think ? waste of time , would anyone use it ?

thanks for your time
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I got 1 of those heavily flopped skydive CDs for my PC. I used it for all of 2 minutes. As an illustration the only well part was they use C130s Otherwise nothin beats hitting the Skies.

I have been a avid base/skydiver for about a year now and i have been wishing that someone would make a skydiving game.There is BASE jumping game out that you should take a look at.You might be able to get some ideas from it.The link is to the developers home page.
they have a free demo for download there.
Let me know if you do this i got some experience with 3d modeling, and i would be glad to help. WWW.d3company.com

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Post edited by: gigga97, at: 2008/02/26 22:12

Gigga97, welcome to the forum That's an awfully kind offer of you. Thank you for the information and I hope Kirara will read this

Hi I just registered on the site to post on this topic heh .

I have the demo Gigga mentioned earlier of BASE by D3. My roommate had the full game for a while but has lost his CD Key or something like that (hes constantly formatting). He has become an avid skydiver with ~60 jumps and I just like doing flips, and may get into it one day myself. I've had a lot of fun playing the demo of BASE, probably spent about 5 hours playing it in the first few days, even though you can only play 1 level. So I agree with Gigga, you should definitely look into it.

After playing BASE, I am craving a really well designed skydiving game that includes the BASE aspect. There is also another game I saw a trailer for thats supposed to be coming out for PS3 called Sky Diving, which looks horrible. It seems to be a DDR type game, where the focus is on doing moves in the air that give you points.

I think a simulation game that tries to be very realistic while giving the player absolute freedom to jump anywhere and do anything would be the most enjoyable, rather than hitting a button that makes the character do cheerleading moves while he freefalls. GTA San Andreas was highly enjoyable solely for the BASE jumping aspect in it.

This turned out to be a little long but I'd thought I'd just give a non-skydiving gamer's view . Hope to see more BASE-like games out in the future.

Pizznau, welcome here I hope you will enjoy the forum.

You gave some valuable points in defining what is important for actually enjoying skydiver games. Something to keep in mind when purchasing/obtaining one

u should definetly try it sound great i think though u could incorparate it with some sort of swat thing where u jump in behind enemy lines or somthing like that . or u could make it like the flight simulator game , either way sounds like great idea. im a kid tho so i cant help u out

But kids usually give the best feed-back (at least the most original)

I see the thread is rather old, but has anyone started working on something like that?

I have been playing around with opengl and some physics to the point where I can model gravity and wind resistance (terminal velocity for a single 3d point modeled, basically).

I would really love to work on something like this, but I feel I lack the physics knowledge to model surface/multiple point drag and general dynamics.

I would not mind making it opensource; My general objective is just to be able to simulate and play around with it after built

nocivus, welcome to the forum

We are waiting to hear back from the thread initiators but.... it could also well be that others reading this might jump in and get things moving.

I hope you will keep us updated on that!

I also hope you will enjoy this forum

Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.


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