The Flying Tree

co-authored: @sztrovacsek
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.24
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.18
You use thermal wind to fly with a mount maple seed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_pseudoplatanus​

Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/R1wQbPm91EA

Find soil to grow a tree. You stucked in a loop thanks to mankind.

Inspired by paragliding and inktober. :)

Controls: Left/Right arrows

Credits:

Sztrovacsek
David Peter
Music: Unknown royalty free music from Youtube. (Let me know if you know the source)

screenshot
Genres: action
Tools: Godot

Comments21

Xisco
Xisco6 Oct 2020, 09:06
Great! Love the art and the mood.
Marakesz6 Oct 2020, 09:08
looks great :)
TomekS6 Oct 2020, 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.
Jetyh6 Oct 2020, 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
ramelio6 Oct 2020, 09:20
I love the mood ! I still can't reach the summit...
oneiromancer
oneiromancer6 Oct 2020, 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.
DavidPeterWorksauthor6 Oct 2020, 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
Alexunz6 Oct 2020, 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.
ZoranSter6 Oct 2020, 10:08
Nice mood and great music!
KreGames
KreGames6 Oct 2020, 11:53
Litlle hard to see the termics. Nice concept. Great art!
SnailRhymer
SnailRhymer6 Oct 2020, 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.
mhm321676 Oct 2020, 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!
gorrgolem7 Oct 2020, 12:47
I like the atmosphere, the poetic inspiration, the graphics are really cute.
Hamus7 Oct 2020, 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_rasa8 Oct 2020, 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
NamidaSai8 Oct 2020, 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
rmonthil8 Oct 2020, 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
Trexxak13 Oct 2020, 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
leggy23 Oct 2020, 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
Matootsy24 Oct 2020, 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.

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