Flappy Jet

marcenat 2017-07-31 13:11

The level design makes the game super hard, but the idea is there

thorneto 2017-07-31 22:55

The game was pretty punishing in terms of difficulty. Idea is pretty funny though.

danielilett 2017-07-31 23:06

This game is really hard. :O

I'd normally run five miles away from anything with "Flappy" in the name, but this is pretty good. I really liked the pixel art graphics and especially the music. Only a few other points to make:

-I found that the wrenches always spawned in extremely tight spots, which is obviously intended, but I could never get back out! I personally think that makes it a tad too hard.

-I also felt the hitboxes were a little fiddly, but maybe that's just me.

In all I think this is a solid entry. If you were to expand it, you could try adding different themes or different obstacles.

joemag 2017-08-01 08:28

Pretty neat, especially how you have to pull in your wings for some of the spaces. I did find that the game would crash if you hit the side walls, had that happen a couple times. All of the spaces with repair power-ups are wayyy too treacherous, not worth going for. Got a nice look though.

theflyingkeyboard 2017-08-01 08:38

Game is pretty fun, but it crashed when I hit side spikes

eggshelldog 2017-08-02 05:33

The idea is cool! And I think the gameplay design is pretty good, if you just want to survive, you can easier dodge the obstacle. However, if you want to eat coins, you are going to take really high risk(it's really too high, i can't even get one coin without death). If i can fly higher with space, i think i can eat coin easier. Overall it's a good game!

rednw 2017-08-04 19:22

The game has a great idea, and in general work quite well, however I felt that the difficulty of some of the obstacles was bit high due to the size of the hit boxes being largely unknown and it was difficult to know what parts were safe to touch and what parts were not. Also, there seemed to be no proper death screen when you hit the sides, only when you hit the obstacles, which made the game hang.

zelos 2017-08-04 19:33

I've played this for about 5 minutes and really liked the idea, but ultimately I didn't want to continue because of a few flaws: - The SFX are annoying and too loud. Especially the ones when you start. - The hitboxes are waaaaay off. Flappy Bird works so well because the gameplay is very tight and you don't die because you hit an invisible wall. - Some obstacles were too hard to get through because of the hitboxes. - Couldn't tell if the hitbox of your character changed when holding down space. The sprite looks like you're getting smaller, but I'm still just dying to invisible walls.

This would be really great if you could just make the hitboxes a bit smaller. Developers usually make them smaller than the sprites themselves, to give the player a bit more leeway. That's definitely what this game needs. The graphics are pretty good and the music isn't too bad as well. It's just unfortunate that the gameplay isn't that tight. Otherwise I'd even recommend you to overhaul the graphics a bit and put it on the appstore. Because the idea is really cool.

supercrunchy 2017-08-04 19:35

Wow this is really difficult!

The max score I got was 3, and I never managed to pick up any wrench.

I liked the twist on keeping your wings retracted, and I agree with danielilett that this is one of the very few "flappy" games I liked. Overall it feels solid and well curated, even though I have to agree collision boxes have a "oversensitive" feeling, even though I cannot really point out any specific case where it was obviously wrong. Maybe you should have used square "bricks" instead of "diamonds" for walls if you are using square bounding boxes for the collisions.

feips 2017-08-04 19:51

Nice Entry, a few things to note: >It's incredible hard, I only managed to get 4 coins and never reached a wrench. >The obstacles look boring and are all the same. I would love if they were Zeppelins or something like that >I encounter some bugs were when I crashed at the beginning of the game the game freezes >The hitboxes seem to be a little weird

Things I liked: >The music: It's annoying, but it exactly fits the game. >The plane mechanic: It just feel responsive and nice.

Well done, I quite liked it even though these types of games are not my favorite. Nice.

alxm 2017-08-04 19:55

Nice game! As others said the difficulty is quite high, but depending on who you ask, games these days might be too easy :-) I think this would benefit a lot from being a little slower and easier to control. Would be cool to add some explosion effects when you hit the spikes. Runs well on Linux with Wine.

ultrarat 2017-08-12 05:55

Going with flapping plane instead of just a chopper or robot bug made me laugh at that animation. I agree with other's comments above that the hit boxes need to be smaller.

pkenney 2017-08-12 15:26

Nice work, the art, sound, and music were all well done and cohesive, and the mechanics were interesting. The difficulty was frustrating but I think that was the point! I liked the randomized variation of the obstacles that kept different runs feeling different.

I think there's a bug with dying, twice the game froze instead of going to the restart screen - including the first time I died, where I thought omg this game doesn't have a retry loop?!

Difficulty is pretty on point though, I died a bunch of times getting two or fewer coins, over and over, but getting a few more seems really achievable. I kept my eyes on the collisions and I think I lived a few with a verrry slight overlap so I think you did make those fair, despite what other commenters are saying. For the first couple of games I had a few "WHAT" moments where I hit something and was surprised, but after I got acclimated I didn't perceive cheap deaths which is important in this style of game.

In the end my record was four coins, but I never got a single wrench.

If I could add one feature, it would be what @alxm suggested: a bit of pizzazz around death.

Nice work!