Lander

Play:

Maximise Touch: Tap the center of the screen to thrust, tap left/right to rotate, hold center while tapping a side to combine them. Confirmed working, including genuine simultaneous two-finger touch, on a real touchscreen. · Keyboard: Up arrow to thrust, left/right arrows to rotate, held in combination the same way as touch.

About:

A clean, dependency-free rebuild of the 1969 arcade classic: rotate, thrust, and set the pointy end down gently on a landing pad across procedurally-varied terrain, with a new numbered "Daily Challenge" seed each day. A Show HN post for this exact project reached 564 points and the repository carries 178 GitHub stars.

The title screen ships its own control-verification checklist (tap center, tap left, tap right, hold center while tapping a side), and all four were tested directly rather than trusted — including the multi-touch claim, dispatched as two genuinely simultaneous touch points through Chromium's real input pipeline, which correctly rotated and thrust the lander at once. The source includes explicit touchcancel handling so a control can't stay stuck on if a finger slides off-screen mid-hold.

Credits:

Made by Edwin Morris (GitHub: ehmorris), 2024. Published here with credit to its author, who stated no licence for it. Source code. The author's own page for it.

Phone check: played on a simulated phone (390x844, real touch including genuine simultaneous multi-touch dispatched via CDP) and on desktop (held keyboard combinations) on 7 Sep 2026 — all four of the game's own control-test claims confirmed working on both input methods; zero console errors, zero failed requests

No licence stated. Edwin Morris (GitHub: ehmorris) published this game without saying how it may be reused, so it is hosted here on the strength of credit alone: their name, a link to their own release, and nothing altered but what it took to run. If you are the author and would rather it were not here, get in touch and it comes down the same day.

Tags:

lunar lander · physics · arcade · daily challenge · browser game · free