Desert Flight by Tero Pulkkinen
Controls: W and S and spacebar

Your task, to avoid birds with your airplane.
| Youtube | https://meshpage.org/mesh_code?id=GVILK@805 |
| Youtube | https://meshpage.org/mesh.php?id=GVILK@805 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/desert-flight |
Ratings
| Overall | 1120th | 2.365⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1125th | 2.031⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1115th | 2⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1109th | 1.957⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 967th | 2.656⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 868th | 1.77⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1036th | 2.36⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 44🗳️ | 43🗨️ |
Nice dynamic.
What is the goal of this game ?
* "starting with nothing" is obviously the sign with "start" in it, in such way that the start section has no enemies, i.e. there's nothing to do
* bird and background colour issue might be more serious issues with collision detection and invisible birds. I.e. it's now using flappy bird style collision detection with y-coordinate of plane matched against range of allowed values in certain timestamps. That's kinda bad way to do it since there's no way to add bullets or anything like that, if collision works like that.
It reminded me a kind of road trip game, but on a plane :D The controls you chose are interesting, so I got used to them pretty fast. At first I didn't understand that birds were "enemies", but after my first death I got it right.
Your plane model was actually pretty cool, I liked it ! :)
Good job !
- I can't see the birds clearly enough and they don't look too much like a lose condition. I really like the overall color palette but these birds deserve to stand out IMHO
- More "juice": speed would be a good start, some (even cheap) sounds could be nice too
- Maybe adding collectibles could have created an increased challenge for players who desire to get the most out of this game
I won't pretend these should have been implemented, I just provide my opinion. Overall and again, good job for having a working game with multiple levels!
Looks like what's happening is when you let go of a movement button, you are telling the game to go back to idle but when you press a button, it needs to interrupt that animation. I didn't let this affect my vote though. Just thought you might want to know. Maybe you can go back and make changes and learn from it :)
Good job on the game!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/492112415
I ended up flying forward until I died to what could have been invisible enemy. Maybe there is a bug?
Game's theme is desert and you fly an old plane. I think this setting is an opportunity to explore something interesting like WW1 and add some variation to the enemies.
Hope this feedback helps. Good luck!
- Birds colorcoding - cant see some of them on background.
- Probably there should be something to shoot at...