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GREAT JOB!!!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1195910,"author_name":"TermiGht","author_uid":"termight","epoch":1776762780,"text":"This was very nice. It had so many content I loved it!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1198403,"author_name":"glem-fumeno","author_uid":"glem-fumeno","epoch":1776783931,"text":"I love it! reminds me of the chaos of mini metro and mini motorways. Maybe a trillogy? mini airplaines?","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1200945,"author_name":"aboogoost","author_uid":"aboogoost","epoch":1776802974,"text":"Very fun! The sfx on landing make me think something bad is happening. I love the gameplay! Keyboard shortcuts for commands would be great as well to speed up inputs.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202559,"author_name":"penagwin","author_uid":"penagwin","epoch":1776821610,"text":"This was really fun! 305 flights in 13 days!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202587,"author_name":"Reed Molbak","author_uid":"reed-molbak","epoch":1776821996,"text":"@penagwin nice job! The farthest I ever got was 11 :joy: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202673,"author_name":"runningopenloop","author_uid":"runningopenloop","epoch":1776823305,"text":"I really like these types of games.  I guess the next step would be to up the graphics and make things a little more blingy.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202752,"author_name":"Boudichon","author_uid":"boudichon","epoch":1776824549,"text":"Simple and intuitive gameplay yet very fun. Stopped after 20 days since there didn't seem to be anything new. Good call on the auto-land upgrade, it greatly helped. Very strong submission, one of my favorites so far :smiley:\n\n![brave_K8QkQvJ4mX.png](\/\/\/raw\/908\/82\/z\/7233c.png)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202768,"author_name":"Sarah","author_uid":"sarah","epoch":1776824871,"text":"This is super fun! I love managing so many things at once, until planes collide of course, but that's what mistakes are for..right? It's a simple and cute artstyle, which works really well with a game like this. The audio was a bit loud so a better balance might be nice for starting, but overall great work. It's one of my favourites so far this jam!  ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202798,"author_name":"frozenfire92","author_uid":"frozenfire92","epoch":1776825305,"text":"Wow, this is one of my favorites I've played so far! Really a lot of fun, keep on making games!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202809,"author_name":"illiteratelexicon","author_uid":"illiteratelexicon","epoch":1776825550,"text":"This entry is super fun! Highly recommend","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202864,"author_name":"Sylvic","author_uid":"sylvic","epoch":1776826678,"text":"Nice implementation of the theme, super creative. Loved the gameplay too, and it's pretty intuitive too. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202913,"author_name":"ofoof","author_uid":"ofoof","epoch":1776827784,"text":"The insta land strat is too op... I started doing it, and then it gave me an upgrade that would do it for me. All you have to do is speed up a plane if its going in the run way the same time as another one. At day 30 I had to call it quits, but I wanted to see how long it can run \"by itself\", so I set up a macro to auto depart planes out of the top runway and click the next day when it appeared. I started with about 15 mistakes, and it made it to about the end of day 50, making 35 mistakes in 20 days, so theres around 2 crashes you have to avoid per day it seems.\nCool game it was a lot of fun","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202972,"author_name":"Pavel Goncharov","author_uid":"pavel-goncharov","epoch":1776829530,"text":"Wow! This is the kind of game I look for in a game jam! Very polished\u2014it almost feels like a complete game. I think you should consider giving this idea more time and releasing it on Steam.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1202990,"author_name":"Reed Molbak","author_uid":"reed-molbak","epoch":1776829971,"text":"@ofoof that's really cool to hear! I didn't balance the later stages very much, so I'd believe that it gets pretty rote once you have four runways and autoland (when I was testing it out, I don't think I was good enough to have everything sorted by the time you get autoland, and when you have planes holding it's a blessing and a curse).\n\nMight be cool to have runway \"refresh time\" or something, so that you're forced to hold more.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203113,"author_name":"pres2300","author_uid":"pres2300","epoch":1776832264,"text":"This is a great compo game and a ton of fun! I could spend a lot of time trying to optimize this. At one point I completely forgot about departing flights, which got me, haha. Nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203131,"author_name":"vyxlvin","author_uid":"vyxlvin","epoch":1776832739,"text":"Really well done! Feels stressful but satisfying to watch when several planes are all on the screen at once. I think I probably wasn't aggressive enough on landing and ended up always just barely avoiding collisions by pulling in or landing\/cancel landing. I agree with the other comments on the audio being a little harsh, and (completely hypocritically) could use just a little more length in the music loop I think. I was excited to try this one out since our team also initially went down the air traffic control route.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203192,"author_name":"poboy","author_uid":"poboy","epoch":1776834229,"text":"The best-designed game I've played so far! Really interesting mechanics. It took me awhile to realize the \"knots\" thing was per-plane, I was wondering why some planes were going way faster than others.\n\nI did find that if you ever reach a point where there's only one plane on screen at any given time it becomes almost impossible to die.\n\nBig jet meta is the way\n\n![planegame.png](\/\/\/raw\/c23\/b2\/z\/7236e.png) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203206,"author_name":"Tesseus","author_uid":"tesseus","epoch":1776834669,"text":"Really fun and intuitive game. I liked the limited, but interesting controls and the upgrades that offered little variation. Well done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203448,"author_name":"squimmy","author_uid":"squimmy","epoch":1776840058,"text":"This is great! The idea is engaging and simple and the execution leans into that simplicity. I can see myself coming back to play this again after I'm finished reviewing other games.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203660,"author_name":"Helgust","author_uid":"helgust","epoch":1776844807,"text":"As a fan of airplanes, I absolutely loved this game! Blending simple visuals with intense gameplay, it perfectly captures the feeling of being a flight dispatcher!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1205062,"author_name":"mofox","author_uid":"mofox","epoch":1776865276,"text":"It fits gamejam pefectly! Really fun and creative game. Suitable and simple graphics make the game more attractive. However, I found a way to play this game easily. You can make every plane land directly and they will not crash together. I suggest you can show tha land button after a plane fly over one round. It my solve the problem.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1205290,"author_name":"Tykki19","author_uid":"tykki19","epoch":1776867702,"text":"Reminds me about some mobile game that I used to play if I recall correctly. Nicely executed with all bits and pieces that are needed. Congratz!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1206014,"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"recursor","epoch":1776877141,"text":"I quite enjoyed this. The controls are simple but great and the upgrades serve to gradually make it even more fun. I had a hard time stopping.\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1208533,"author_name":"lloydlobo","author_uid":"lloydlobo","epoch":1776931592,"text":"I liked the concept and execution. Wish you make an additional open sandbox version. This has great potential for tinkering and modding! 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