Going the Distance with Babylon.js

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Implementing the Game Mechanics

The focus of the previous chapters was solidly on building an application foundation for Space-Truckers. Now, it’s time to shift gears (as it were) and look at the way we want to implement the game for its first phase: Route Planning. As we usually want to do when faced with a single, daunting, complex problem, we break down this part of the game into two principal facets: simulation and game elements. Throughout this chapter, we’ll start by looking at the simulation part of the game before layering the game mechanics on top of the simulation in a way that gives us the freedom to iterate.

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