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A jam submission

Aid From AboveView game page

By Freddie Payne and Alex Williams, as our entry for the tgc x CoreBlazer GameJam 2025.
Submitted by FreddieWPayne, DreamGuru — 17 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Community's Voice#693.3333.333

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Creative Vision / Rationale / How Did You Incorporate the Theme
Aid From Above is a strategy simulation game where you control a rescue plane delivering vital resources to towns across an island. As the towns grow, they produce more resources, and so help to grow the populations of other towns.

The theme of generosity is incorporated in two ways. Firstly, the symbiotic relationship between you and the towns encourages you to help them to help yourself, and allows one town's growth to indirectly affect others. In addition, we introduced plane problems: random events that hinder your plane's capabilities unless attended to. These problems are fixed by consuming the same resources that help the towns to grow - which means that sometimes, you will need to sacrifice the speed of your plane for the towns' sake, leading to player-led generous decision-making.

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Submitted

Flying was done so well, and hitting the rings is so satisfying. 

Submitted(+1)

This game is incredibly fun to play, I wanted to just spend hours flying around the map. The flight mechanic is nicely done, and the gameplay captures the theme of generosity very well. Great work, kudos to you both!

Developer

Thank you! :) 

Submitted(+1)

It's very relaxing to play!
GG 🎉

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot! :) 

Submitted(+1)

Story - Pretty simple story, but it executes it nicely and sets the game up perfectly for the gameplay that really shines!

Mechanics - Flying the plane was nice and calming. Until I decided to fly through a ring and get jettisoned straight into a rock LOL. Overall, the resource balancing, flight simulating, ring zooming mechanics all work harmoniously together. It would be cool if there were little things to do in between the flight between towns. Maybe little narrative moments that pop up over the radio or something to give players something to do during the downtime.

Theme - Pretty spot on. Generous old war pilot decides to help struggling communities in the best way they know how. I can dig it!

Audio/Visual - Really simple graphics, but I think that helps the vibe of the game remain extra casual.

Overall - Cool game with a great premise. Would love to see this expanded upon! Great job!

Developer

Thanks for the very detailed feedback! Glad you enjoyed the game 

Submitted(+1)

The flying is fun and the concept is clever. This one could take off!

Developer

"take off" - I see what you did there! 

Submitted(+1)

I am AMAZED at how only two people could create something like this. You two are wonderful and I loved the gameplay. Bravo.

Please continue it if you want to in the future. 

Developer

Thank you so much! We definitely put a lot into making the game and I hope that shows 

Submitted(+1)

Very satisfying to play! I ended up getting a bit addicted the more I went on, but I also agree with the others that there could be more to do between places especially when taking a longer flight between destinations

I can see this being even more enjoyable if given the chance to develop further, and I look forward to it if you do! :)

Developer

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the game and thank you for the feedback :) 

Submitted(+1)

love the game idea, good job! I feel there could be a lit more interactables in the air, like the boost rings, so players have more things to do going from point a to b.

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it! :) 

Submitted(+1)

Super nice - you have a solid gameplay loop here! 

You even cannot stop flying right? So there is ALWAYS something to do for the player and it technically never gets boring right - very very nice and full of potential!

Presentation works fine and it is very satisfying to fly - I personally would like to have more control like that I can boost myself and recharge by collecting the rings. Or tighter turning haha.

The theme also works fine however I never felt generous but more like doing my job being the cargo plane between the three locations. Also I feel like a week of playtime is a bit long - at a point I was missing a concrete goal or like a bigger in-between reward (you can dismiss this since it is a game jam and I am starting to daydream while writing ...)

Great job and really really nice game there fellas! Do you want to continue working on the project after the jam? 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the kind feedback! We never considered working on the project after the jam, who knows what the future holds... 

Submitted(+1)

Very pretty music and visuals! The theme is excellently incorporated!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! :) 

Submitted(+1)

Your game is not accessible ;_;

Developer(+2)

Thank you for letting me know! That should be fixed now.