Very interesting first game from the both of you from the conception to the realization of it. I wasn't able to get the best grasp of the game but it definitely has a lot of potential to it. From the art to the gameplay, it's a very well crafted game for a first game jam/game in general, so kudos to the both of you and here's to a good game dev future to come
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Learn to fly's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #165 | 4.019 | 4.019 |
| Creativity | #167 | 3.832 | 3.832 |
| Overall | #278 | 3.561 | 3.561 |
| Fun | #529 | 2.832 | 2.832 |
Ranked from 107 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Yes - I'm new to game jams!
How does your game fit the theme?
The game puts the player in a place, where he has to experiment to get progress to master flight - equally how a (new) game dev needs to start/begin with a project to eventually create a full game.
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107 days ago(+1)
Hey AlternalDev - great to have your feedback aswell.
Happy to hear you liked the design and aesthetics of the game, even having a rough time with the controls. We love to continue to improve our balancing to the perfect point of easy to learn and hard to master - and will create a less punishing learning cycle as soon as the jam ends.
Thank you for your kind words, we are eager to take on our next projects and jams and would love to hear more from you aswell in the future.
Thank you very much for your precious time spent on playing Learn to fly, you are awesome!
107 days ago(+1)
Dear Pixel Monsoon,
first of let us thank you for spending time playing our game!
Congratulations on mastering the ability of flight within only 8 tries and kudos for not giving up until ultimatly succeeding. Really glad that you enjoyed the entry. We are eager to test your submission to the game jam and wish you good luck for the remaining rating phase!
And thank you for commenting and letting us know your thoughts!
107 days ago(+1)
Thank you for your kind words!
While we doubt we will be taking one of the 6th winner spots - we already feel like winners having so many people playing and enjoying our creation. All of our goals with participating in the jam were already accomplished so we are really happy with the experience we had.
Glad you liked our game and love the enthusiasm :).
Thank you for playing our game SohamGames and we'd like to wish you good luck for the remainder of the rating phase and love to see your entry aswell.
Love to have your feedback aswell JoyousLlama!
We didn't want to put some people off with having an animation of the bird falling to the ground or hurt himself - so glad you liked our solution to that.
It was really fun working together as family - the great thing was, although I was more experienced due to my software development background and experience with unity, we could start somewhere new together using godot and creating arts and music (where I still barely grasp the basic concepts), which was also a really good reason for me to learn godot throughly. So we plan to do more jams together and maybe, next time/jam you can convince your brother to join - it's lots of fun and the game you'll always treasure as memory of one another.
We really appreciate the time spent playing our game and wish you all the best for the remainder of the rating phase.
Thank you for playing Learn to fly!
Great to have your feedback!
Indeed the core gameplay loop is learning the controls - nice job catching on to that.
Good that the creation of the SFX not only lead to omlette, but also increased the overall enjoyment.
Thank you very much for taking your time to play our game!
Of course we will return the favour and have a look at your submission before the rating phase ends!
Good luck!
108 days ago(+1)
Hey there !
May I ask what the resolution your playing on ?
Are you able to/tried maximizing the game view in browser?
Love to help you if I can.
First and foremost, thank you very much for playing our game, it really means a lot to us.
The horizontal world borders are poorly/not communicated at all, this is definitely something we should fix and also keep in mind for future projects. Love to hear you were persistent and eventually mastered to fly!
Thanks for the feedback.
108 days ago (+1)
Hey FrankRJ - great to have your feedback aswell.
Happy to hear you had a pleasent time with our entry, although the hatching->fall sequence was to slow for consequetive attempts, where we agree and will fix the issue post jam. And nice that you noticed our audio and visual hints for change in gameplay, we tried to used ingame systems as much as possible to communicate the game to the player, sounds like it worked here - great!
Thank you selecting our game for testing and giving us this valuable feedback!
Let us first thank you for commenting and taking your time for this detailed feedback.
We agree with you, analyzing the comments made us realize, the ultimate goal, flying up into the sky, is not directly or indirectly incentivized or hinted at through means of the game. For a next jam, we will make sure we don't miss on this point again, thanks for the valuable information.
Concerning the mouse cursor, we wanted to have visual or audio queues for different mechanics in the game. The mouse cursor was meant to indicate an "action"-input is available at your current stage. This is during the egg stage and during the last stage of flying. Our Idea of hiding it during the fall, glide, flapping and flying phase was to make sure players know they should concentrate on the wsad / arrow-keys.
Love to hear that the asthetics and ambience of the game were to your liking.
Thank you for playing Learn to flight - we really appreciate it!
Hey Lestavol nice to have your feedback!
Yes we agree, we took the risk making the discovery of the control the main mechanic, knowing that it may alienate some players, but we wanted to achieve something similiar like e.g. FromSoftware Games, where you feel rewarded for finding out yourself. Balancing this to the right point is of course very complex.
Currently it's a mix, if refering to the comments, without knowing the exact number, I'd assume a ratio of 20ish% or so that were frustrated and stopped... although I did not analyze it.
Great to hear you still enjoyed the aesthetics!
And finally thank you for taking your time, playing our game, especially if it wasn't your kind of jam :).
109 days ago(+1)
Hey thank you for your comment.
Love to hear our sfx we're to your liking.
Thank you very much for playing out game :).
Hey Denji
glad that you enjoyed our spin on the concept of mastering flight!
Considering your question - no collecting the letter T does not complete the game, but flying past the second leaf crown triggers the end of game. This is maybe poorly contextualized without any additional text - thank you for the feedback.
And thank you very much for taking your precious time playing our game!
Hey TheCrabBadger,
no worries - the game mechanic is to learn the mechanic to fly, if you knew how it works from the start, the playtime would drop to 1-2 minutes I'd imagine. But hearing you succeeded to fly brings joy to this one!
Thank you for your time, playing our game!
To your request to play your game - as mentioned before, we want to make sure, that at least on of use plays every game of those who left a comment on our submission, but not exclusively just games on our comment section. So far there is only one game, where we need to find a way to start it, but every other commented game entry was played, rated and commented/feedback'd.
That being said - we already had great joy exploring flap_tower :)
Overall, the game was really nice! I was first treating flight like mario 3 racoon suit, but it seems like once you fly for long enough you just... get infinite flight? I think there is an extent to which i dont quite understand what part of the movement causes... that. But the everything else was great! i especially loved the bird flight animation!!, and it felt really nice to alllmost hit the ground and then pull up at the last minute! I had lots of fun, very well done :33
109 days ago(+1)
Congratulation you are now free to fly towards exploring the depth of game development :3.
Yes it is a progressive stage system, where if you use the current stage mechanic you gain experience until you hit a threshold and unlock the next stage. Gliding (raccon suit) goes to flapping (short up burst) goes to flying ("infinite fly" but still respecting gravity) and then theres one more.
Very happy to hear you liked the animations, i really gave it my best.
Thank you very much for playing our game.
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