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BaD #12: A Day with Flight Control


On 02/18/2014 at 08:33 PM by daftman

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Linked to Article Series: Blog a Day (BaD) 2014

There’s a whole subgenre on the App Store of line-drawing-direction games, and the granddaddy of them all (or at least the one that made them popular) is Flight Control. Your screen shows an airfield with two different runways and a helipad. Various aircraft fly in from off screen and you must direct them to the appropriate place to land by drawing their flight path on the screen. It’s simple but things quickly get hectic as the screen fills up with planes and jets and helicopters and biplanes and probably other things I haven’t seen yet. When two of them crash into each other, it’s game over. It’s a lot of fun.  So far landing 65 aircraft is my high score. Oh, and that’s just the first airfield. There are five more that change things up, four of which I haven’t even tried yet! With perfect touch controls, quick play sessions, and plenty of maps, it’s an ideal mobile game that I’ll probably be playing for a long time to come.

This is part of the tame beginning

Oh yeah, that's more like it


 

Comments

Ranger1

02/18/2014 at 09:48 PM

I just love the vast array of different types of games that are available to us in so many, many ways. This game looks like fun.

daftman

02/19/2014 at 09:41 AM

We certainly have a wealth of options and choices Smile Flight Control is also available for the PC and the PS3 (though that version might be Move-exclusive, I don't remember), so maybe you can play it one of those ways...?

KnightDriver

02/19/2014 at 03:11 AM

Man, do I want a tablet bad. Wii-U or tablet. That is the question this year.

daftman

02/19/2014 at 09:43 AM

That is quite the choice. Personally, I'd go with the Wii U. It would probably be cheaper than a nice tablet and it's got some really great games. My wife and I are playing Super Mario 3D World right now and it's incredible. So much fun!

NSonic79

04/13/2014 at 11:45 AM

Just looking at this game gives me the shivvers. I'ms ure it could be fun for some but given how air traffic controlling is a taxing job as it is, I'm not sure I'd wnat to do something like that for fun, even if it is just a line drawer.

daftman

04/13/2014 at 09:13 PM

Less stressful than Papers, Please, I'm sure.

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