Air Shippin

Welcome to Air Shippin'

You are a new employee of the Balloon Transport Bureau (BTB). In this pretty depressing future, many things are gray and you are required to use single-use disposable fuel canisters that are made of bad materials, and eventually raise pollution. 

The game was made for the GJL Game Parade 2021 Jam, with the theme One Use.

Inspired by Aurora Wager, Sea of Thieves.

Made by Feliks (Game Dev Graduate) and Adam (Physics student,  first time jammer, and first Unity project and game).

Double tap escape to unfocus from cockpit in WebGL.

How to play is contained inside of the game. Simplified version:

Controls:

• W, A, S, D - move around.
• Mouse - look.
• Left mouse - Interact, fasten/place item, pick up item.
• Right mouse - throw the item you're holding.
• Shift - sprint.
• Scroll- zoom.
• Hold escape for five seconds to show restart button.

• When focused on steering wheel:
  • shift + ctrl to control throttle.
  • a + d to steer.
  • esc to stop focusing.

How to Play:

First, enter the gig economy by starting a job on the job board. Place the boxes onto your airship and bring them to the next hub, which can be navigated to by matching your HDG to "HDG->TGT".  Remember, the fog does not forgive.

Grab a few fuel canisters (as fuel runs out quick and single use fuel canisters are more economical in this world), and put it in the slot in the back of the thermal airship, then click on the steering wheel.

To the right of the steering wheel you will see two buttons - the top one increases the temperature, and the bottom one decreases it. Try to get your balloon to a reasonable temperature (around 90C) and let it take off.

Complete about five deliveries for the full consequences of the climate change to take place. Make sure you don't fall into the fog, otherwise you'll have to watch a game over video.

P.S. Your ship gets heavier the more stuff is on it.

Key Features:

• Faithful thermal airship/hot air balloon simulation:
  • Realistic buoyancy physics simulation;
  • Dynamic Drag (Changes with ambient density and velocity);
  • Semi-realistic dynamic propeller thrust;
  • Airship Kevlar envelope simulation for passive heat loss;
  • Yaw simulation.
• Pretty opaque commentary on single use items.
• Climate Change (Ambient Temp increases with pollution).
• Dynamic wind simulation:
  • Wind changes dynamically with height;
  • Interpolation between altitudes.
• Programmer art.