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Rotorwash

A helicopter courier sim built around one stubborn idea: model the downwash properly and let the consequences write the levels.

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WASD cyclicShift collectiveQ/E pedalsF winchGamepad ✓Runs at 60 fps on integrated graphics. Nothing leaves your machine.

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What I actually built

Downwash field

A radial pressure field under the rotor disc, sampled by every loose rigidbody in range. Tarpaulins were the first casualty.

Sling load

Cargo hangs on a real constraint chain, so pendulum motion is emergent and entirely your fault.

Flight model

Blade-element-lite: enough aerodynamics to punish bad collective, not enough to need a manual.

City streaming

Addressables on a 400 m ring. Loads ahead of the nose, drops behind the tail.

Screens


Devlog

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Week 29

The cargo is now the hardest enemy in the game

Playtesters kept blaming the wind. It was never the wind.

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