I wish I could fire back at the enemy planes. It would be more fun if I could. Without it, I don't feel like playing it for more than 10 minutes... Largest positive is that it's super simple to play.
Reviews for "That Plane Game"
esayitch responds:
Hi! I thought about adding automatic shooting (wanted to keep the control scheme as simple as possible), but when I tried it it didn't feel very fun, and while playtesting, I was tempted (as a player) to get into bad positions in order to shoot the enemies down. Since the stars are already there and force the impatient player into bad positions often enough, I found that I was dying too much (as a player) when I added shooting, and that didn't feel very fun. So I scrapped it!
I'm glad you had fun with it while you played it at least ^^
I see the potential this retro styled game could have. Only thing I did not like about this was that the plane moves in circles on its own if I don't press any keys. Maybe you could change it to where the Up/Down arrows could control the plane's path without having the plane move in circles on it's own. Just a suggestion. Other than all that, I did enjoy the game :)
esayitch responds:
Heya!
I tried two control schemes to be honest, one and two button (or touch, on android). With two buttons, the plane would move in a straight line and you would have to press any of the two buttons to get it to move in any of the two directions. When I tried playing it with 2 button controls, it actually felt less natural, because if you were't pressing anything, you can get disoriented as to which button takes you up and which button takes you down.
Some trivia: I did the same thing with the previous game I ported from Android (Taco Trump Down), and in that game it felt more natural to have two buttons, so that is why I kept two buttons :D
tl;dr I tested it with 2 buttons, but a 1-button implementation felt more natural, so I kept that instead.
I gotta say even though felt really weird at first, after a couple of times it was super fun! The only thing that it lacks (in my opinion as always) is a little better graphics and maybe some kind of lvl up system with power ups, but still keeping that limited buttons functions, Other than that good job m8!
Another bad port of mobile game on NG that brings nothing new.
If you like this game play dogfight2 instead. That's how plane games should be done!
esayitch responds:
Hi!
Well, I'm sorry you didn't like it. I think the port is good (it is very similar to the original version), but maybe the game itself is just more suited for a mobile device.
Regarding dogfight 2, I actually really like it and would recommend people to play it regardless if they like this one or not. I would also recommend they play Luftrauser/s.
But, both those games are more complicated. For example dogfight 2 uses 4 buttons (2 for movement, 1 for shooting, 1 for bomb). Luftrauser/s uses 4 buttons as well, 3 for movement and 1 for shooting. I wanted mine to use only 1 button (because it was originally a mobile game that used single-touch mechanics - for simplicity's sake), so I had to simplify the gameplay. I'm still pretty proud of how it looks like right now, because you have several elements interacting with each other in dynamic and meaningful ways, and all of that is achieved with a single button/touch.
I obviously can't make everyone like it, but I hope that that explanation at least makes what I was going for clearer!
Thanks for playing :)
It's stuck on "press the up arrow " part
esayitch responds:
Hi! Thanks for reporting this. Fixed now hopefully, please tell me if it's okay?