Master of the Skies: The Red Ace is a small WWI flight game that Small Rockets released in 2001. It is witty and hand-crafted, and it has stayed with me ever since. It was written for the Windows of its day, so it has become hard to run. I wanted to fly it again on any machine, so I rebuilt it. Red Ace Remake is the whole game rebuilt in Godot 4. It runs in the browser, on Windows, on Linux and on Android. It also carries something new: Der Rote Kampfflieger , a twelve-mission Red Baron campaign. What is in it The whole game. All 28 missions on the three original maps (country, desert and trenches), the campaign with its pilot roster, ranks and promotions, the briefings and debriefings, the cheats and the replay list. Faithful logic. The flight model, the AI, the weapons, the damage, the scoring and even the HTML menu engine follow the decompiled RedAce.exe . Where I was unsure, I ran the original under Wine and compared the two side by side. Origina...
Personal blog of Manu Varkey (മനു വർക്കി), a global citizen hailing from the tiny Indian state of Kerala. Devoid of ideologies and religions he has enough time to waste on self proclaimed intellectual magazines, yellow newspapers and unproductive intellectual pursuits. Here is a chronicle of this humble being's random musings, eccentric ideas and questionable engineering pursuits.