A flight to the gallows

Summary

When a dangerous criminal leader must be escorted to his sentence in a high citadel, Captain Wade volunteers to take him aboard his Hot air Balloon, the Hippocampus. The way is long and dangerous, but the criminal must be taken there alive. What Cargo will you take or lose ? Can you fight your way through ? Will everybody survive ? Everything is a dead weight in an Aircraft…

Gameplay

The player controls the captain of a Hot Air Balloon and has to guide it until the final level.

General info : Put the mouse on objects to have descriptions. Mouse wheel controls zoom! Moving : W fires the burner, A and D use the lateral rotors. Combat : Use Right click + Left click to fire the Gatling gun. Cargo : Whatever you pick or is linked to you has a weight. Click on a cargo to cut it lose. The cargo is also your inventory. Healing : Click on a part of your Balloon to heal it. Requires a repair kit. Bombs : Cut lose a bomb with the mouse or by pressing B to drop it.

Development

“A flight to the gallows” was made in 48h using Construct 2, FL Studio, and Audacity. It has been a while since I’ve been so excited with a theme, and I was able to put all kind of things in the game. I can see that his has a lot of gameplay issues, but it was personally challenging as this kind of design was unknown territory to me.

This story is freely inspired by the 3.10 to Yuma films. Special thanks to my lovely Akane who took care of me like always. Now, I need some sleep.