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by johsole 7 days ago
Flew around a bit and was fun. What do you use to build it?
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Thanks for trying it out. Opting into PvP also lets you shoot lasers and knock other drones down, which is fun as well.

The frontend is vanilla js + three.js, which renders server-cached AWS Terrain Tiles. This made it possible to render the entire Earth, so you can fly/teleport around biome-aware Alaskan mountains, Hawaiian islands, or anywhere else.

The backend is a Go server which tracks live player positions. This is running on a VPS until I need to scale.

And land ownership/skin purchase is tracked on the Ethereum Base network, also cached. So it's a proper Metaverse with blockchain enforced land ownership.

There's more to it, I can answer more questions, but that's a good overview. Thanks again.