Cloud Realm by Hempuli
Cloud Realm is a very small game where you play as a young boy, fighting against a huge robotic sky serpent, one which siblings have been tormenting previously peaceful areas. The game may be very hard or very easy depending on how quickly one handles the controls.
~CONTROLS~
A & D - move around
W, SPACE & Left mouse - jump when not flying
ESC - skip the first part of the game (in case you want to get to the action quickly)
Left mouse - shoot while flying
Right mouse or E - leave a bomb while hanging from a surface
Space - cling to a surface and jump off it, more about this in the in-game instructions
In the game you're controlling a glider-ish vehicle, so horizontal momentum matters a lot - you glide when your horizontal momentum is high, but start losing altitude when you slow down. However, diving a bit and then accelerating makes you gain height. This may need some trying but you have infinite retries!!
All this is also explained in the in-game instruction screen. Shouldn't be too weird.
The game should work on Wine.
~CONTROLS~
A & D - move around
W, SPACE & Left mouse - jump when not flying
ESC - skip the first part of the game (in case you want to get to the action quickly)
Left mouse - shoot while flying
Right mouse or E - leave a bomb while hanging from a surface
Space - cling to a surface and jump off it, more about this in the in-game instructions
In the game you're controlling a glider-ish vehicle, so horizontal momentum matters a lot - you glide when your horizontal momentum is high, but start losing altitude when you slow down. However, diving a bit and then accelerating makes you gain height. This may need some trying but you have infinite retries!!
All this is also explained in the in-game instruction screen. Shouldn't be too weird.
The game should work on Wine.
Ratings
| Coolness | 14% | 1074 |
| Overall | 3.93 | 34 |
| Audio | 3.32 | 112 |
| Fun | 3.46 | 113 |
| Graphics | 4.37 | 13 |
| Humor | 2.42 | 333 |
| Innovation | 3.56 | 142 |
| Mood | 3.87 | 20 |
| Theme | 3.07 | 413 |
I've never liked gliding mechanics in games, even in Super Mario World, so that part naturally turned me off a bit. But the rest of it is so wonderful - great job dude!
One small concern is that it only kinda fits the theme. Maybe the story explains how it fits the theme better though. I skipped the intro.
I wish there was some indicator of how high you are. Without that, it was hard to tell how much diving mattered or how close I was to the serpent.
Overally, amazing work! Really nice fun polished game :)
I had an issue whenever the robo-serpent wasn't on screen. Since the background doesnt' scroll, I had nothing to compare my position too. Therefore, I could never know if I was actually getting any height or not, and that made me feel like I couldn't figure out how to control the damn thing.
Also, no mouse lock means I clicked outside of the window several times, which also didn't pause the game - that caused quite a bit of frustration when it happened.
I love the look and feel of the game. The art is amazing, and the audio was great as well. For whatever reason I could not get the hang of flying, no matter how much I tried using A/D/W it seemed like my character really just wanted to fall from the sky. Then again, I'm on Windows 8, so I guess anything is possible.
In any event, nice work!
I like the pixel art a lot!
You can see a ton of work has gone into this game though, so well done, graphics are quite nice and the battle is pretty cool
I really liked the controls too!