Soaring by Jose Pedro Dias

[raw]
made by Jose Pedro Dias for LD 39 (JAM)

Flappy birds with a twist. You must navigate through the obstacles, watching out for fuel spent and picking coins if you can. Tap screen / press space bar to give impulse to the ship. There are 4 levels. Can you beat them?

Play on your desktop or mobile browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4exz_1M4YPA

Credits

José Pedro Dias @josepedrodias - programming and graphics

António Silva @asilva4000 - audio, sfx and level design

Ratings

Given 10🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

pklaschka
01. Aug 2017 · 08:34 UTC
To be honest, I find the idea a bit boring (Flappy birds combined with some Picking coins and some fuel limitations) – also, I am not a big fan of Flappy birds. The implementation, and – to be more exact – the **audio** aspect of it– compensate for that, though.

All things considered: An a bit boring idea (in my opinion) with a much better implementation (especially in mood and audio).

Thank you for sharing.
🎤 Jose Pedro Dias
01. Aug 2017 · 11:32 UTC
Very glad you appreciated our game, even if not the game concept.
We tried to come up with a fun game with challenging levels. Cheers.
LukeZaz
10. Aug 2017 · 03:50 UTC
Levels were relatively interesting, although I felt there were a few unforgiving parts. Besides that, there were a couple parts where coin chasing caused me to die either through missing fuel or hitting walls - I list that as an issue because the typical suggested path in level design is to use the score object (like coins) to guide the player in the right direction, and this game did a little of the opposite.

Also, while the games concept wasn't that interesting or innovative, and it did feel like the theme was a little stuffed in randomly, but the audio was pulled off quite well, and the controls (even if they were only one button) were smooth to use and I wasn't left feeling frustrated.
Jupiter_Hadley
30. Aug 2017 · 17:08 UTC
Interesting little game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztP-p00QMyo