Air Pressure by zgragselus
You are in charge of planning flights for an airline. And you know how it is with work. The more planes and airports you have manage, the worse your job is! Fortunately, you can upgrade your planes to give them more flight plan stops to make your job a tad easier.
And those pesky passengers. If they wait at an airport for too long, they will get angry, and will spread really really bad PR about your company, and you will be pushed away from the market.
So, hey, enjoy trying to last as long as possible; and if you're able to survive longer in the position than other people, you will appear on the title screen leaderbords!
Controls
- WASD for camera movement
- Q/E for zooming
- Or you can drag mouse and use the wheel; up to you! ;)
Technologies
- Unity 2017.2
- Krita & GIMP
- Amplify Shader Editor
- Visual Studio
- Blender
- Substance Designer & Painter
Credits
- Pavel Kouřil https://pavelkouril.cz
- Vilem "Zgragselus" Otte - https://twitter.com/VilemOtte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpvTX_uu5dg
Remarks
We tried to do something a little bit different this time - a game that shouldn't need any tutorial, so let's see if we succeeded.
Also, we unfortunately didn't estimate the scope of the project well enough, so it might not be as polished as we wanted to. We are sorry for that!
As for the WebGL version, we will look into it. Soon™.
There are few known bugs; fixing them is our utmost priority (right after our real-life-duties). So please stay tuned!
Ratings
| Overall | 508th | 3.51⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 783th | 3.064⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 203th | 3.646⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 402th | 3.628⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 245th | 4.065⭐ | 56🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 539th | 3.319⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 66🗳️ | 61🗨️ |
@draperdanman - as for the upgrades, they allow you to up the amount of stops in a flight plan. By default, you only have two and with the upgrades you get 3 and 5 stops. You upgrade the planes by the circled up arrow button, and edit/view the flight plan with the edit button, next to the respective plane. I'm really really sorry, we should have communicated this better to the players - this was a major oversight on our side. :(
Well done !
The visual identity is cool, I really liked the day/night look of the globe and its control was satisfying, good job. I couldn't figure out what my upgrade were doing tho, and also congrats on the "!" button that focuses on the airport, really useful feature
I'm not sure if removing the tutorials was the way to go. I did figure it out eventually, but I think tutorials are inevitably the best solution, especially when you're trying something different than your general platformer.
Good job nonetheless, I enjoyed playing it!
I will rate the game down 0.5 stars out of pure indignation.
On the other hand, it's certainly the most enjoyable strategy game I've played so far on LD.
I found using the mouse pretty awkward. I expected a click and drag interface, as in I'd click on a point of the earth and drag it to the center and then I'd be looking down at it. Instead it had that messy panning system.
Reminiscent of Mini Metro.
Wasn't sure if certain passengers had certain destinations or what; wasn't clear why some ports were apparently suffering more congestion.
Interesting game. Pretty nice visuals except for a little blurry Earth texture when zooming in. Music is somewhere in the middle between relaxing and somewhat even epic.
As for the gameplay at first for some reason I thought that planes with zero level arent actually available. And the funny thing is that the first time I reached the higher score than the second and third time despite me finally realizing that all the planes are under my control.
Whether or not you are going to have a pretty easy or hellish run is highly dependent on rng. One time I got all my airports grouped up nicely in one place, the other right of the bat I got airports all over the globe.
The difficulty ramps up too fast for my taste. One moment everything is ok, but seconds later you got a dozen of new planes, even more airports and the existing ones are all red and the people there are rioting! As for me I would prefer it better if it was more of a slowpaced puzzle and planing game.
All points considered it is a fun little game with a nice incentive of getting a highscore (which I got, yay!).
I would recommend adding some way to alert the player to new airports opening up.
I didn't realise there was a new one half aroound the globe until it was too late.
Otherwise, great work.
But it looks awesome. Graphics are really well done.
Come check out my game if you like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected
I love the Moon and stars and the render overall :) The UI is also OK for such a game.
Did have to figure how to charter planes, an single overlay with description of what is what at the beginning of the game would have been nice.