Sounds like the most zen-like take on Crazy Taxi I've ever heard. ...Only now you have to Crazy Through the terrain to keep playing!
Yes, excactly! I was thinking just this. You get a grace period when starting out (60 seconds maybe) and each time your score reaches zero (or a few seconds pass without proximity to the terrain perhaps), an alarm goes off and you have a few seconds to score again or Fugl would blow up in a cloud of feathers. Would truly be an arcade mode, haha! Sounds a bit stressful though...
Ok cool, I'll try it out! I agree that scoring is secondary, but if you're going to be scored, it should be on the most exciting thing in-game, so I'm glad you guys agree. I will anyways have an option for displaying the score in game or not. I don't like HUDs as they break the immersion imo.
First impressions I just started beta testing. This game is buttery smooth and the graphics are amazing. My only wish is an alternate control scheme like melodive's. And touching the screen would flap the wings
Hey! I signed up for the beta a while ago but I hardly get the time to play I'm having to test the game on someone else's device so I don't always it with me sadly
I will try to implement alternative control schemes, but I have tried tilt, and it wan't very good. I will try again though! Give the current scheme another go, it's a bit strange in the beginning, but once you learn it, it's very precise... Just like Melodive, haha!
That is just awesome, haha! I promise I didn't put it in there, put I have toyed with the idea of voxelizing a bunch of freeware 3D-models and putting them in the terrain, just to give people a small wtf-moment...
I have uploaded a new version to the website. It's still called 0.4.2, but I fixed the ungraceful loading. Now it's very stylish.. Please tell me what you think, as it's a work in progress. I have also put in a rudimentary title screen, so now a option screen should be relative easy to put in...
:O Wow, that was not what I expected. From that description I assumed you just tacked a basic "Play" button onto the splash screen to make a temporary tile screen. But in actually, you made a GORGEOUS intro cinematic! It reminds me of the intros to the old N64 games where they give you a fly around tour of the landscape - it really demonstrates the beauty of the graphics. It feels really seamless too - going right from intro, to title screen, to gameplay, without any loading. The only non-seamless part is the splash screen, which cuts away very sharply. Since the intro begins with a view of the water, it would be nice if the "Fugl" logo in the splash screen faded away to just the blu-ish background, which then faded/transitioned into the blue-green water from the intro.
Thanks man, I appreaciate it! Hmmm.. I have no control over the splash screen, only its content, There is supposed to be a fade, but I think it's being stalled because of all the sudden rendering. I could tweek the fog distance, so the splash screen fades to white, then to green... I will have to try that out, but I think it's okey as it stands now really... At least for the time being... I've spent way too much time on it already!
I've seen some interesting shapes. Also, I seem to spend most of my time seeking out the most massive and involved cave systems to photograph. bp
Then you can look forward to the cave biome, it's going to be one huge, interconnected cave with glowing mushrooms!
Hello testers! I'm working on the score display and option screen... I just wondered what kind of options I should put in? Any good tips? At the moment I have this planned: Game mode (Free/arcade/?) Controls (Normal/Twin stick/Tilt/?) Inverted Y Axis (Yes/No) Sensitivity (Slider) Air resistance (Slider) Responsiveness (Slider) (how quickly it starts turning) Bird colors (Random/Custom) Music volume SFX volume Show score in HUD (on/off) Any other options I should include?
options seem good. Maybe make a tooltip explaining how air resistance will affect the flight. Otherwise, no further ooooh unless you do the minecraft option to customise the biomes, how much rock how much water grass holes caves animals etc...
That's an amazing intro sequence and I love the exploding title at the start of each flight. Very nice! Also, I just noticed in the large, open water that's now the beginning of the course, that there are depth details that vary. I think you mentioned that they were added in a few days ago, but I guess I always took them as shadow before, in the rivers. Are the rivers the same as they were before this update, or is there more depth there, now? You know what would be cool? Jumping fish that you could see swimming, from above. Only so much can be pushed around onscreen tho, I know. bp
Hehe, not in version 1.0 that's for sure... The terrain gen is a pretty fine tuned mechanism. Tooltips could be a good idea, though...
Thanks! They are the same, but it works a bit differently in the ocean, as I basically just scale down the terrain to be below the surface = more interesting shapes. Not all rivers run very deep though... I migh ttry to tweek that... I'm definitively putting in jumping fish! I plan on projecting their "shadow" on to the water, so you'll se them even if they are under the surface... Might constitute a second chance for the hunting bit...
A good way to display the score without cluttering the screen might be to have the score briefly flash near the bird and then fade out whenever you get more points or whatever. I really like having no HUD for this game.
