A Little Look At The Dash Mechanics Of The Game.

In Flightless Star using gravity creatively is essential to advance through the levels.

But sometimes it unlocks some handy shortcuts, for those that want to challenge themselves and finish the level as fast as possible.

Midway through the second level we find CW Leonis (IRC +10216), the dying star surrounded by a carbon dust cloud that once belonged to its outer layer.

Reference: https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/cw-leonis/

Despite all headache, the chaotic unpredictability of this gravitational fields can create some interesting behaviors

Puzzle time!! Remember, always pay attention to the gravity fields.

Hello everyone

I’m a newcomer solo game developer and this is the first game I’ve been working for quite some time.

The game is called Flightless Star, and has a pretty unusual gameplay, playing similar to a 2D platformer, but instead of jumping you launch yourself from one planet to the next while dealing with their treacherous gravity fields, avoiding hazards and using your ever increasing movement abilities.

I’ve been working on this game for almost 2 years and there is still a lot to do :'), in the meantime I released a demo to gather feedback and show the idea of the game.

Trailer;

Demo on Itchio;

Steam page;

2 year of (very slow) improvements in 3 screenshots.

Game development is hard (and slow) :T

The backstory of the game's protagonist will be told in the loading screens.

Paying attention to them will explain the sequence of events that resulted in the broken bird getting lost in the emptiness of space.

After a lot of tweaks and redraws, I finally reached a satisfying (and cute) running animation for the little bird.

Been drawing some concepts for cutscenes. There are a lot of cutscenes to animate for the third level of the game.

These is going to take forever (ᗒᗣᗕ)

After (assuming) the player is familiar with the basic mechanics of the game, the levels will start to get more complex and challenging.