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Sim Scenario Forge

AI-assisted scenario designer for airport and logistics sims that turns a one-line concept like 'snowy hub with weather diversions' into a fully-configured scenario with passenger flows, gate assignments, staff rosters, and a tuned difficulty curve.

Target user

Simulation-game hobbyists who design and share custom scenarios

Features
  • Natural-language scenario generator that produces passenger-demand curves, staff rosters, and weather events from a brief
  • Difficulty tuner that rebalances a scenario for beginners or veterans in one click
  • Community scenario library with ratings, comments, and remix chains from other players' saves
  • Compatibility export to popular sim platforms with the right file formats and asset packs
Why now

Airport Simulator pulled 446 HN points and 100 comments, showing sim fans are hungry for fresh content that no studio can hand-author fast enough — AI can now compress scenario authoring from hours to minutes

Signals · overall 5/10
Demand
6/10

HN Airport Simulator post (446 pts) plus active MSFS addon community, 15M+ MSFS mod downloads and Project Airports in open beta confirm strong but niche hobbyist demand for custom content.Build your own MSFS 2024 airport in the browser: Project Airports enters open betaFlight Simulator Industry Statistics | Fact-Checked 2026

Whitespace
5/10

Project Airports already does AI-assisted browser airport building, MissionGen and SayIntentions.SkyOps already generate AI missions for MSFS — direct adjacent competitors exist though none bundle passenger-flow/gate/staff/difficulty output for airport+logistics sims.MissionGen Discover | Dynamic FS2024 Mission GeneratorSkyOps Dynamic Missions | SayIntentions.AI

Monetization
4/10

Project Airports launched free, SimBrief is free, and most FS scenario/mod tools are free/donation-based from hobbyist communities — sim creators are notoriously price-sensitive, making paid SaaS an uphill battle.Project Airports - The Easiest MSFS 2024 Airport BuilderSimBrief.com - Virtual Flight Planning Solutions

Longevity
6/10

Flight sim community spans decades (33,749 hand-scanned airports cited), the $25B industry continues releasing flagship titles, and AI tooling only augments — not displaces — this persistent creator ecosystem.Flight Simulator Industry Statistics | Fact-Checked 2026

Feasibility
5/10

Outputting tuned passenger flows, gate assignments, rosters, and difficulty curves requires deep per-sim data models and formats; Project Airports shows the engineering lift for 'just' airport geometry, so a full scenario forge is moderate-to-hard, not trivial.Project Airports Released: A Platform to Create Custom Airports for MSFS24

Airport Simulator · 446 points · 100 commentsHacker News · 2026-07-20 (4d ago)