Aeronautical Antidote

Haha, you kinda-sorta broke it, but not in the way you guessed.

We actually tried to put a lot of weight on being able to play the game however you wanted (and quite honestly, the scoring algorithm was coded by me smashing my keyboard a few times with about 10 minutes left to submit the game) and speed was supposed to be one of the elements needed for ultra high scores, but uhhh, yeah, keyboard smash != living out our scoring dreams.

I will say it's completely possible to beat the game without firing a single shot, and using your method (which is a ton of fun to do, and sometimes infuriating if you happen to run into the wall at the end while trying it).

Glad you got to play it a few times and try to break it :-P I haven't found anything that truly breaks the game which I think is quite an accomplishment in itself haha

So glad you enjoyed it, Jackaroo! I'm glad you stuck with it long enough to figure out the tricks of the mechanics and have a good time with it.

We were really hopeful to add some additional things that didn't quite make it in with the time limit that add to the hilarity of the story (We were actually both having a laughing fit once we came up with what the gameplay and story were going to be) but if you download the source you can check out some... strange assets, haha.

Thanks for the kind words :)

Hey Zandy, were glad you enjoyed our game :D.

We went back and fourth with whether to even keep shooting in the game or not. We eventually decided to add it as a second mode, but cut it so close we were unable to add it.

Hey Bokonon! Believe it or not I just played Capuchin Centauri again yesterday.

So glad you got to enjoy the game, and thank you for the suggestion about projectiles! If we keep working on this one, we'll look into it :)

Thanks again

Hey singleshot! So glad you go the chance to check it out (and give a ton of great feedback too, thank you!)

The initial theming was all surrounding the Generic Love Interest disintegrating, and there's unfortunately a few things we didn't have time to actually implement in the game regarding that story (even though related assets exist in the game files).

I think if we had a bit more time we would have added some plane disintegration stuff - and your idea of harder to control with that is great!

Thanks for all of the suggestions and seemingly enjoying it enough to play it a few times :)

Ah, thanks so much Allison! I think the hijacking is really special, so we'll definitely explore it more in the future for sure :)

So glad you had a fun time with it :D

So glad you had fun with it Hosh, I think it feels great too! We've had one person here, and one person on Twitter asking us about adding mouse support (which I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it could work, but I think I have a few ideas), so if we continue work on this at some point I'll make sure to throw WASD + an alternate fire key into the mix :)

So glad you enjoyed it, Ethan! I just took a look at Pursuit Force - that game looks ridiculously fun haha. It gave me some ideas for how to make hijacking a bit more difficult / skill full (if/when we re-do this game a bit).

Thanks for all the praise :D

Hey, thanks! Glad you enjoyed the twist we put on the gameplay style.

Hey Jason, thanks a bunch :D

Game feel was really important for us early on, and continued to be as we got closer to finishing. Were really flattered that you think so highly of it :)

So glad you enjoyed it, Yozoraki!

We were hoping to update the visual a little for more ease, but the determining factor is the amount / density of smoke coming off of the plane! It's a little tricky to get a handle on, but hopefully it'll help someone master it :)

Glad y'all got to enjoy it and play through it a few times!

We had a lot of fun making this - one of the heavily debated topics between us was how to make it so that the player had a lot of choice on how they wanted to play the game, so I'm glad to hear that it worked! The unfortunate side of that is that the scoring algorithm was coded with about 10 minutes left in the jam, so it's somewhat broken for the "go for broke" route :(

As far as the theming goes, we made a few different aspects of our game about falling apart:

• The main character is going to deliver the antidote to their [generic love interest] who is slowly being eaten away by a super poison. We have a sprite in the game (feel free to download the source and check it out, plenty of unused stuff unfortunately) that was going to be placed in the corner to show your remaining time based on how uhhh... decomposed... your love interest had become. Unfortunately ran out of time to put that up there, even though it was one of the earlier animations completed.

• Your planes continuously fall apart and you have to eject to steal other planes to survive... unless you're just that good 😎

• Your relationship falls apart because of what you have to do at the end of the game... and that thing also falls apart as you destroy it.

Glad you liked the music and voice acting! There are actually bullet sounds from both you and your enemies, but they might not be audible when played at low levels.

And yeah, sorry about the intro not being skip-able! That bugs me too. I actually had Hessery make the sprite for the walkie-talkie while he was at work about 45 minutes before the end of the jam, and I hadn't even finished up that portion of the game yet - so I forgot to throw in a way to skip it.

Still, so glad you both enjoyed it and stole some planes along the way!

So glad you liked it! We had a few iterations of endless modes for testing before getting the progression of the game all in place... very easy to get distracted by playing it for a long time, haha.

We actually didn't experiment with mouse controls at all - someone else actually yelled at me on Twitter for not having them in the game (oops). To me the keyboard controls feel super satisfying and I can't really envision how it would work with mouse rotation... do you have any thoughts on that?

Edit: I forgot to mention, yeah, the only indicator of damage is the smoke trail of the plane. There's a lot more leeway on the players plane's smoke to show health amount than on enemies. We were going to work up better smoke sprites to better show damage, but that fell the way of the 48 hour limit sadly!

Haha, so glad you liked it! As I mentioned earlier, we had thought long and hard about whether or not to even enable shooting, but we tried to make this a game that you could play however you wanted to.

I'm a big fan of planejacking personally, but the ability to shoot adds some good variety I think.

If you want to give it another try, pressing backspace when you're in the game should enable debug mode and make the directions super apparent - I think I forgot to disable that feature.

I haven't personally had the issue of not being able to tell where my fighter is facing other than when I'm excited by fighting a ton of enemies, but I can imagine playing the game for the first time could get quite disorienting...

I'm glad you had a fun time with it though - and I appreciate the voice over compliments! My first time doing recording work like that, and I'm glad I could make my voice sound cool enough 😎

So glad you enjoyed it, Meedil!

Haha, good suggestion - we both played the game while working on it for hours with shooting disabled for this reason and one of the nearly completed features when we ran out of time was a pasifism award.

It took us a while to decide if we wanted to allow the player to shoot or not, and we were hoping to add a mode where it was disabled, but alas time was not on our side!

So glad you enjoyed it and stole lots of planes along the way :3

So glad you enjoyed it, Chris! All of it was a ton of fun to get working, and doing the voiceovers with about an hour left was certainly interesting - I'm glad they came out well and you liked them!