Wingleader

This project is a demonstration for my students of taking a tutorial (a flight sim) and mashing it up with another tutorial (meteor falling) to create something new. I found an excellent flight sim tutorial from Chris Deleon and a meteor tutorial lost to time (with apologies to the creator) and created this. 

My students are often not programmers and struggle and feel limited by their technical skills. This exercise is meant to demonstrate the value of play. 

This project took parts of 2 days to implement and lots of playtest after that to fine tune the controls. I recommend playing around with the flight controls before hitting 'T' to start the fall of Thread. 

What is Thread? It's an existential threat from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. A book series that has had several games created for it, but NOTABLY NONE WITH DRAGONRIDING. Turns out chasing down sky parasites falling at terminal velocity through the atmosphere is challenging! 

I thoroughly enjoyed making this prototype. 

CONTROLS

• A - roll left 
• D - roll right 
• W - pitch up
• S - pitch down
• LMB - flame
• Hold Shift - quicken maneuvers
• Space - skip ahead
• Hold Space - lengthen skip distance
• T - start Threadfall

NOTE: There is no quit. There are no resources. Fly, flame, and fail to your heart's content.

Enjoy!