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Don't worry, you will win when the time comes. The spheres will grow and become easier to touch. Meanwhile, just explore the air. Fly somewhere nice.
Use arrow keys to navigate;
X - inverse controls;
Esc - pause.
Music and art: https://twitter.com/polygrim
Soundtrack: https://soundcloud.com/dstrm/parse-the-sky
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dustyroomgames
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #6 | Audio(Jam) | 4.50 |
| #13 | Mood(Jam) | 4.38 |
| #15 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.71 |
| #73 | Overall(Jam) | 3.93 |
| #339 | Fun(Jam) | 3.38 |
| #579 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.04 |
| #1027 | Theme(Jam) | 2.60 |
Comments
very calm and relaxing experience. could have done without any collectibles, in my opinion, because getting used to the controls is fairly difficult and didn't feel very natural. still though, it's a beautiful game to just glide around in.
Really fun to just fly around the game for a while. The world looks absolutely beautiful and the music just helps enhance the whole feel. Only thing I can fault it on is the controls; maybe have the vertical controls inverted instead?
Nice graphics and music. We couldn't get used to the odd controls :(
Holy shit this game is gorgeous! I love it! My favorite part is the trails coming off the plane. Seeing them playfully wisp around everywhere as I turned around really just made the experience so much better!
I had a little bit of difficulty controlling the plane - it seemed like the plane would "stall" if I turned too fast. Maybe you're just adding a force in the player's current direction and not manually turning the velocity vector at all?
One suggestion with a little known Unity trick: when you make your web build, set the player settings -> desktop resolution to 9999x9999. Doing so will cause going fullscreen in the web build to actually use the PC's native resolution instead of just keeping it the same and stretching the image. On a game as pretty as this, it's a shame to not get it as crisp as it should be!
Very good mood and art style. It takes time to understand the controls and get used to them, but once done it's a pure pleasure to fly around. Sometimes the plane doesn't seem to respond anymore, i manage to escape this situation by holding for very long one of the key. Not sure if I'm hitting the limits of the levels or if there is anything else happening there. No big deal anyway, very enjoyable game.
This game is beautiful and the music just works. Controls are a bit wonky at times. Still, easily the best LD34 jam game I've played thus far.
Reminds me of a cross between Sky Odyssey and Continuum/Alpha Waves. :3
My only gripe is the controls. Why did you go with realistic plane physics (including stalling!) but reverse "pull up" and "dive" from every other flight sim out there? You could have at least included an "invert Y-axis" option. :(
Nice concept, et well done for the atmosphere, nice touch with simple art !
Same as above : You could add a switch to invert vertical control.
Wut. How even. This game is ridiculously good - by far the best game I've seen this Ludum Dare. Keep up the good work, I really look forward to seeing your next submission!
Wow, what a good looking game! Here are my thoughts:
+ Graphics are gorgeous
+ The sound / music design is great! I really liked the theme song.
+ The way the game starts seamlessly when you press start game is cool
- The controls are a bit hard and there is no speed meter or a way to control your speed so it can be a bit tricky to play the game
- Sometimes it's difficult to gauge your distance to other objects, since the plane is white and so are the blobs you must collect
- Could have used a setting where you invert up / down arrow (as is common in flying games)
Best game I've played yet! Love the music and the art style! The plane was really to fly too! :D
Looks really great! But it hard to play without vertical inverse control. This not usual for some players like me.
Nicely made, I especially liked the mood of the game. Controllers were a bit hard to grasp because the plan was white = didn't know the direction to go. Other than that, well made.. :)
soooooo beautiful! Wish i was working on a games like yours.
the game looks and sounds great but without option to separately invert axis X and Y its barely playeable for me. For me Y axis should be inverted.
Graphics and audio work extremely well together, and both are fantastic.
The controls are pretty strange though.
Fantastic art!
The controls are a bit difficult, and I was having trouble with depth perception as both the plane and orbs are bright white
Beautiful! You can just relax and fly around. Very calming. You know, you shoud invert the y-control-axis, right? XD
Very elegant, super style, music and feeling (I like the transition to color at the beginning). But I'm sorry I couldn't handle the control, too frustrating... It's too bad because it could really have been one of my fav.
stunning looking game with great audio and sense of space. controls weren't for me but that didn't take away from playing it to much.
I did however score you low on theme, just being honest with you here, for me it just didn't feel like the Theme directly effected the game design at all. it's stunning don't get me wrong, just thematically didn't resonate.
Amazing visuals and sounds, controlling the plane was pretty odd. When I turned fast enough the plane controls stopped working for a couple of seconds. The game is great though!
Gorgeous color scheme and music! Love the takeoff scene. controls were surprisingly hard...seemed to be sluggish on rolling side to side? The music kept me flying though.
Omagad, so trippy !!! Loved it!
Love the music, love the graphisme, love everything.
The only thing is, i was perturbed by up goes up and down goes down, on average plane game it's in the other way.
And I don't see how it fits the theme.
Still one of my favourite!
Amazing aesthetics, amazing music, amazing experience ! Just fyi, as a someone who flies planes, the controls are a bit counter-intuitive. But great great job on that entry ! Well done !
Wow, great music and graphics!
It's so much fun to fly around, did you synch the speed of the plane to the beat of the music?
The intro is really smooth. I like the way you can see your own tracks.
The only downside I found was controls. When I was doing barrel rolls and the topside was down I was really confused which button to push to fly upwards. I got the hang of it over time, but yeah.
Just beautiful! I loved your good taste in colors and music. Unfortunately becomes a bit hard to control however after polishing controls this could become an interesting whole game.
Great experience. Music is top notch. Visuals are fitting and pleasing. Would be nice to have an option to invert up and down (since its kinda a standard). Intro take a while too, which is not great.
Really beautiful game! The mood and the environment are amazing. But the best of this game is the music. Congratulations to the developers
Awesome music. Graphics are fine too. Controls are questionable, but still alright. In general, I enjoyed every aspect of the game. Especially music.
The plane needs an ability to barrel roll. Seriously. The game doesn't allow it to go directly upwards, which also makes turning backwards way more difficult. Why does it stop me from going up if there is no "up"?
I can never tell if I will collect an orb or not, I can't figure out the distance to anything. Might be me, might be camera.
Fantastic art style! Music is awesome too. Really great experience. Controls are a bit fiddly, and also felt like they were backwards, as plane controls are typically inverted up/down, so that should probably be an option or something. Great work overall.
This is game is visually stunning, a truly remarkable entry for a game jam! Same goes for the audio, it offers a really pleasant experience. On the downside, controls felt a bit too confusing, it's a bit too hard to get the spheres. We feel it could benefit a lot from a different control scheme, we'd love to see future versions of the game being developed.
Wonderful style & flying control! =D
Camera work on the steep turns can be better.
Really nice graphics, love it :D. Music is awesome to.
The Gameplay is a little bit hard to understand at the beginning, especially the bottom button, but so enjoyable to play :D.
Super stylish visuals and awesome choice in music. Controls were a bit finicky and made it tough to control :(
Wonderful, really pretty and relaxing game. As some have already pointed out, up/down controls are normally inverted in flying games, which makes controlling this game a bit frustrating. An option to invert up and down would have been really welcome. Other than that, pretty enjoyable piece.
sublime experience...really dig that shuffle beat music combined with the heavenly colors..this game has a nice Rez like feel to it...controls are weird but interesting choice in this abstract world..i felt the challange there..great job.
Love the look and the sound, my mind exploded when the color came into the world.
That was a beautiful experience! Thank you for making this.
As everyone said, the controls are very hard, and it's probably because I don't know airplane physics, but even as it was hard to control, was was slowly able to navigate a little bit.
The visuals are extremely beautiful, but the audio truly wins me over. Phenomenal job!
Very nice atmosphere! There's something I don't like about the controls, maybe the camera behavior or just that I can't tell which way is up, but as a whole it feels very good.
Reminds me of: http://kotaku.com/a-game-that-imagines-a-happy-ending-for-a-tragic-loss-1742203440
Very beautiful and polished! I think it will be better if the plane can shift to left or right. Well done!
Beautiful graphics, and the music is sublime!! Can I get the music to listen it in loop? :P
Amazing art and sounds, just awesome. A little hard to control (maybe the up and down control could be inverted?)
Superb audio-visual experience, just read the above comments to see my shared view on how gorgeous the game is. The controls felt really off to me, though. I could never get the plane to go where I wanted which was a big shame.
Really a gorgeous game! Too bad I couldn't get used to controls.. Impossible to understand how to turn, pushing left or right arrow only make my plane do a barrel roll :/ Except that point, the only flaw of this game is that it doesn't fit both theme of the jam. Yep, that's all I can find :p
Really has a huge potential here!
Beautiful game, very stylish, awesome soundtrack. I found it a bit hard to control - I guess that's why there's a post-compo version. But, it did have a nice glidey feel nonetheless.
This is a really beautiful looking and sounding game, if it wasn't for the music and graphics, I would've given up early due to frustration from the controls. Moving the plan up and down is simple enough, but steering is really difficult.
Great job on the art stuff!
Absolutely amazing! Stunning visuals and incredible music, I'm going to check out Polygrim's album right now :)
Didn't have too many issues with the controls, but then I've had some practise before with games like Air Brawl.
Anyways, you guys did a great job, really great experience.
Controls were a bit difficult to get used to but other than that it was quite enjoyable. I don't think the theme was used very well though
Amazing graphics, soundtrack was enjoyable... Quite relaxing, yet challenging...
Controls took a little to get used to, I kept mixing up when I was inverted and when I wasn't, BUT I STILL GOT EVERYTHING!!!
Interesting look, but the controls are weird, the plane should turn when banking.
Nice music and graphics but not too sure how this fits the theme :D
Beautiful and perfect.
The controls felt natural, I didn't have any problems with them.
The only critic I have, is that the game ends when I collected all orbs. Had to play the game several times to enjoy it even more :). Very soothing.
Amazing mood and music! Really pretty graphic style too, the plane was a bit difficult to control
Amazing graphics! The controls are a little bit weird though - most of the time I felt like I was fighting the plane. Anyways really nice game overall, easy 5/5 on most categories :D
Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that I played with this game one month ago. I remember a poetical travel about a grandfather who disappears during the Algerian independence war. It's a beautiful project, but Ludum Dare isn't a showcase so as to expose an older project. This is the link and tell me if I am wrong. I wait before to rate ++
http://armelgibson.itch.io/oases
Ultra awesome startup with the kickdrop and colors !!! Such a beutiaful game.
difficult to get used to the controls but the whole atmosphere and graphics and music are stunning :O
Really polished and great looking entry! Enjoyed playing!
great graphics, audio and mood wow. I did have some troubles with the controls. I think because it aligns itself. especially when I fly upside down and press up to go down it didn't work as expected.
Graphics, atmosphere, music at a professional level. Controls are strange, I could not really understand. Compliance with the theme rather nominal. But, great job! Good luck ^_^
What a experience. Thank you. The controls were a little wonky, but other that just amazing.
It's moody and stuff, but man is the control scheme off the wall. It's fun to look at but not really rewarding or enjoyable as a game, and it's utilization of the theme seems like an afterthought.
The best way to describe this is that it feels like the result of an animation studio hired to make a game, when they don't really even play video games. I'll be a bit bummed out if the presentation fools people into rating this high in the jam.
Like other people, both controls and the connection to the theme wasn't very obvious to me.
Really beautiful game! The mood and music are great. The controls were a bit hard for me to get used to, but once I did it felt awesome to fly around.
Clearly inspired by Race The Sun, but with your own control scheme and feel. Looks great and although difficult to steer at first I got used to it. (Up and Down felt backwards though!)
Very well polished, brilliant.
It's a dream come game. Introspective, colorful, relaxing, yeah, it's a dream, and still a game. A good one. Very well done.
Beautiful visuals and sound (seriously, that song fit perfectly)! I struggled with the controls a bit so gave up a little early trying to collect anything, but really enjoyed just flying around
Nice art and good smooth controls!! :) I played a very similar game before...
The guy made that game because his father was a pilot of a plane which crashed during world war...
He was telling that he made that game as a memory to him! :)
Not really on theme, but a really beautiful looking flight game, and fun to fly around in this world. A little hard to gauge the distance to the orbs since their lighting is very flat.
I'm afraid the controls were just too hard for me. Pressing left or right alone just made the plane spin, but continue going along the same trajectory. Very pretty to watch though.
really nice graphics + music, but would have preferred traditional pitch/yaw/roll plane controls
very interesting, nice mood and aesthetic, wish it was a bit easier to control and also had some more to explore
The look is wonderful, I think does not resolve any of the themes, but it's a great job.
Points for style, that's for sure, name and feel-wise influenced by that other game with "Sky" in the name, I forget…
The steering got easier when I stopped using the up key unless I was flying straight ahead. Theme-relatedness…, yeah. Bit sad that the end was just a fade to white and reset as the rest was rather polished.
Smooth.
Nice work, the aesthetics are really well done and the controls are pretty good when you get the hang of them.
The theme could of used a bit more integration, but it was helpful the orbs grew, made it very relaxing and stress free.
The graphics is amazing! I kind of had a hard time to get used to the controls, though.
The experience was pretty nice and graphics are really zen. But I really don't manage to fly where I want & it's a bit frustrating. Great entry by the way! Congrats!
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awesome game! i wonder how is it possible to make something like this in 72 hours. amazing work. polish up the controls and release this as a full game
What an amazing game. It was a beautiful piece of art, all around. Well done!
Amazing. I played with a 360-controller and though I have no flying skills and little controller skills, it worked very well. I much enjoyed exploring the world and navigating it. It was a bit strange that it wasn't the glider, but the camera that should collect the orbs, but once I had figured that out it was OK.
Awesome graphics and THE MUSIC! hahaha seriously though I really enjoyed it :)
Really mellow and good fun for a while. Played the WebGL version with the soundtrack playing from soundcloud, don't know if this was the way it was intended to be experienced, but w/e, it worked :). Probably needs more gameplay of some kind to allow for longer playing sessions.
Nice entry! It is gorgeous and has an excellent athmosphere! I just can't see the link with both theme...
Liked the music and overall mood, but couldn't do anything useful here because it's hard to say where is the top and where is the bottom of this airplane
The moment when the music fades out the scene is gray and the .... booom music kicks in again and everything is a color explosion! Such a cool start...
It's just beautiful. Great for some quick relaxation.
Thing with controls is that they are little too sensitive.
Really good graphics and music.
Controls (especially turning) were hard to get used to.
Wowww. Absolutely gorgeous and the music is amazing. Wish there was more elaborate gameplay & better connection to the theme but regardless this is awesome. Amazing work!
Gorgeous game!
I felt the controls were very confusing. After a while of playing I started getting the hang of them and really liked how they felt physics wise, but for a short game like this, I think something simpler would be better
By far one of the best games of this competition. Love the soothing mood, the amazing music and the great graphics. Very cool!!
Great overall mood, the graphics and music are awesome. However, it's pretty difficult to control on keyboard and only slightly easier on a controller. I'd say it would be a lot easier if the plane didn't try to automatically straighten itself up.
I don't like control so much but you've done a GREAT work with the mood. I fall in love with music. Nice job guys!
Perfect 5 star Graphics, Music, and Mood! Loved the visuals, loved the style! Music was awesome too! Great game overall! c:
Amazing style and graphics flying mechanic is cool as well.
Visually striking, although it didn't have all that much to do with the theme. I loved the audio and music - I think it did a fantastic job adding to the atmosphere. A little tricky to control, but overall a pleasant experience. Keep it up! :)
Woooow I'm blown away ! Those graphics and that music ! The feeling at the beginning when the colors appears and the music starts is priceless ! My only advice would be to work on the camera since it feels a bit awkward sometimes. And after testing the post compo version, I find the compo controls to be more pleasant and authentic. The game is very atmospheric, thank you !
Easily one of the most fun games I've played this LD. The environment is beautiful and the gameplay is fun. The objective is simple but it doesn't feel like you have to do it quickly because you just have fun flying around. The music matches the feel of the game and is likewise great.
This game was great! Very interesting take on the theme. The controls were a bit difficult to use, and I wish there was a reward for getting all of the gl/rowing orbs, or a way to keep playing afterwards. =P Graphics and music were really good, and the atmosphere was relaxing. Good job! :)
Incredible game. The aesthetic is flawless, the graphics mesh nicely with the unbelievable audio. Well done, incredible amounts of polish for 72 hours. 5/5 graphics, audio, mood
What an atmospherical and beautiful game!
I didn't like the controls, very difficult to handle, a joystick support would be nice.
I love the art, it gives me hope as a programmer I could make something look this pretty.
The music and visuals go well together, setting a relaxed mood.
The thing I don't like are the controls. The plane is very hard and annoying to fly.
I played the post-compo version and I like the changes on the controls, I was able to collect all the orbs.
The only thing I would change is the texture of the orbes because they are the same color of the plane and it's difficult to distinguish profundity between both objects.
Great job.
Relaxing to play despite the difficult controls. A mesmerizing atmosphere.
Beautiful audio/visual experience! The controls were a bit odd but was fun to try and master them.
This entry is just awesome, the style is gorgeous, and the music is fantastic! I would (will) definitely play/listen to more.
It's a bit hard to control, but other than that, I think it's a great experience. With the graphics and the music both being this good, it's easy to get lost in the world and just enjoy the mood of it all.
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Amazing graphics style :D I really like it