Article submitted by Yorik van Havre. Chico Ortiz (Thorgal on blenderartists) just made a small but excellent blender game. The game was made for an exhibition called “Santos Dumont, designer” in São Paulo, Brazil, until 3rd of May. The exhibition shows many aeroplane sketches and models (one is full-size), and Chico made a small flight simulation game which runs on 4 screens inside the exhibition, so visitors can experiment flying the planes.
The aim of the game, the graphics, the gameplay, everything is very simple. You must choose one of Santos Dumont’s planes, take off, and try to land on one of the runways before your (small) fuel tank gets empty. Several things are highly interesting in that game, the first being that this is a real, completely FINISHED game, made in 40 days. Everyone who already tried making games knows how hard this is. The second is the flight engine, one big python script made by Leandro Cassas. Everything is made with very simple game engine tools, but the way the little plane reacts to your fingers looks highly professional. The game has also nice old-game graphics, music and sound, can be controlled with a gamepad, and has a creative commons license.
Links
- Chico’s blog
- Exhibition page
- 14&20 game page (including videos and .blend file downloads – look for the ‘PARA JOGAR’ section)
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