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The Flying Tree

By davidpeterworks and sztrovacsek

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10653.3228
Fun15872.3828
Innovation7473.3829
Theme13562.9628
Graphics2044.2429
Mood954.1829

Comments

xisco 2020-10-06 09:06

Great! Love the art and the mood.

marakesz 2020-10-06 09:08

looks great :)

tomeks 2020-10-06 09:11

Very nice art, and great music, the mood is amazing. I find the gameplay a bit frustrating, there maybe should be a sound cue for the thermal power? Anyway it's a solid well polished entry, well done.

tero-pulkkinen 2020-10-06 09:12

The art style is very amazing.

jetyh 2020-10-06 09:18

Truly beautiful game although the gameplay seems to be largely trial and error but that may be what you were going for. Either way, I enjoyed it.

ramelio 2020-10-06 09:20

I love the mood ! I still can't reach the summit...

oneiromancer 2020-10-06 09:27

Great entry with amazing art and music too set up the mood. A little criticism though, because you don't see the wind currents unless you are in them, it feels too risky to move anywhere, and the gameplay becomes a little frustrating.

davidpeterworks 2020-10-06 09:58

This game is based on my paragliding experience. As a pilot you guess most of the time. You have to "scan" the mountains for good thermals.

alexunz 2020-10-06 10:03

Nice game, quite chill. It's satisfying to get those thermals and fly up high! I like the game loop you've got (I won't spoil it here though) but it's a nice story-telling way of looping the game.

zoranster 2020-10-06 10:08

Nice mood and great music!

kregames 2020-10-06 11:53

Litlle hard to see the termics. Nice concept. Great art!

snailrhymer 2020-10-06 12:06

Really nice art and atmosphere! I never felt like I had much agency and I died a lot without ever getting more than two trees planted. It feels like having the trees act as checkpoints would have made the game a bit more forgiving - I wanted to play more, but felt I couldn't really progress.

mhm32167 2020-10-06 16:15

Nice atmosphere and art looks quite unique. It was hard initially to figure out how to find the thermals - it takes a lot of trial and error more than anything else. Great concept!

gorrgolem 2020-10-07 12:47

I like the atmosphere, the poetic inspiration, the graphics are really cute.

hamus 2020-10-07 18:54

Beautiful art and music, and the gameplay seems fun! Had trouble playing it because my browser made the thermal graphics incredibly small and hard to see.

fabula-rasa 2020-10-08 11:01

Great mood. The art, the music and the simple gameplay all band together to create a practically meditative game. Very nice.

Finding thermal currents is quite hard and if there is some way of predicting where they could be from afar, I didn't notice any. So it feels quite random - go the right direction, discover the current and survive or choose poorly and fall to your doom. That's the life of a seed in a nutshell I guess ;).

namidasai 2020-10-08 11:40

Absolutely nailed the mood and the ambience there. I love this art style and the music was perfect to go along with it. I agree with other comments regarding the fact that the trial and error approach felt a bit frustrating. I saw that you mentioned it was based on your paragliding experience of scanning the landscape for winds. Maybe small hints and indicators on a more populated landscape would help? It would break away from the cloudy aesthetic but would help millions on the gameplay side of things. However, it's already a beautiful art piece, great job!

rmonthil 2020-10-08 13:22

Very nice game, nice art and very nice music :musical_note: Contrary to others, I didn't get frustated about finding thermal currents. This trial and error approach works for me. But what got me just a little bit frustrated, was the lack of checkpoints actually :sob: I lost almost at the end and I was expecting to start from the last grown tree ! But anyway, very nice mood and the gameplay is well mastered! Congrats ! :deciduous_tree:

trexxak 2020-10-13 23:26

What a meditative experience!

Meditative, but still quite challenging. The thermals could be a bit more visible, although I do understand that it would probably just destroy the beautiful landscape. Wonderfully crafted game all in all, good job!

leggy 2020-10-23 08:28

I loved the concept, chilling music and awesome art. the only remark is that I'd improve visual for thermals, but the concept is really nice! well done!

matootsy 2020-10-24 13:26

Nice ambient. Good choice for the music. But the quietness of this atmosphere is a bit broken by the difficultie to find the good placement on thermal wind. I couldn't reach another mountain :-( I would prefer to have something more smooth for the control. Anyway. It's really a nice idea.