{"id":4254,"date":"2020-01-17T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T23:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:52:38","slug":"realtime-flights-as-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4254","title":{"rendered":"Experience boring realtime flight as a game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new game called&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/931310\/Airplane_Mode\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Airplane Mode<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;asks players to enjoy being a passenger on a six hour trans-Atlantic flight that plays out in real time. This strikes me as almost as amazing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2013\/7\/10\/4510388\/why-teller-created-desert-bus-the-worst-video-game-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Penn+Teller's Desert Bus (opens in a new tab)\">Penn+Teller&#8217;s Desert Bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out these amazing set of features to enjoy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fairly accurate satellite imagery of your flight path.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Snacks, premium beverages, and meal service (incl. fish option).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carry-on bag with a book, headphones, pen, and charging cable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overhead reading light and complimentary aircraft information card.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inflight safety video produced by IFC&#8217;s in-house team of expert air hosts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Randomized events on every playthrough, such as turbulence, bad wifi, and delays.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Authentic ambient noise\u2014whose baby is that???*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inflight entertainment system featuring a flight tracker and hit movies of the 1930s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our award-winning magazine, Stratospheres, filled with articles, crosswords, and Sudoku.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CNn-ImYfgtA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/honestly-a-video-game-that-strands-you-on-a-boring-six-1839717598\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/honestly-a-video-game-that-strands-you-on-a-boring-six-1839717598<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, if you prefer, just watch a real-time 11 hour recording of a flight from LA to Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OCCUgcb4LvE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new game called&nbsp;Airplane Mode&nbsp;asks players to enjoy being a passenger on a six hour trans-Atlantic flight that plays out in real time. This strikes me as almost as amazing as Penn+Teller&#8217;s Desert Bus. Check out these amazing set of features to enjoy: https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/honestly-a-video-game-that-strands-you-on-a-boring-six-1839717598 Or, if you prefer, just watch a real-time 11 hour recording of a flight from LA to Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-16C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}