Adding FLIGHT to my DREAM video game

If you saw it, let me know.,

You could add weather to limit the ability to fly, make it so that if its raining and you try to fly you'll get struck by lightning. Maybe also add flying hazards like occasional bee swarms or hurracanes.

Adding flying was a mistake because now I think it's becoming my DREAM game...

Idea: upon getting hit or when there is no mana left, the broom stalls rather than gets destroyed. At higher elevations or in certain areas ( like above water) mana is consumed much faster, and when it dries up, the broom enters free fall. Certain areas may be labelled as having mana consuming auras, making flying more difficult and impossible to reach some out of bound zones

When casting a spell on a broom, the broom could display a wobbling effect, cast too many spells too fast and you'll lose your balance and fall off your broomstick The higher your altitude, the more mana will be consumed You could also add sky enemies for a sort of "natural barrier", if you get hit at any time while flying, you'll lose balance and fall off, this will make players try to avoid sky enemies, perhaps there are sky serpents that live quite high up in the clouds, and some 'balloony' bulb creatures that sit at low altitudes, they'd sit near world borders to discourage you from flying past Also the higher up you go, the more the fog there is, if you go too high, you won't be able to see the ground, and sky serpents could dive at you from the outskirts of the fog. If there was a time in the game when you wanted to encourage the player to fly higher, you could signify where with floating lanterns, these lanterns would keep some of the fog and enemies away. Magical winds could prevent players from flying too far out, blowing them back into the game area, or you could use botw lost woods styled fog to prevent the player from leaving the game area

I see... the very efficient and natural lake shape at 5:01

Love seeing the progress of this project- you're developing things in a fun and strange order and it's very interesting to watch!

I think players should not be able to acquire the broom relatively easy. Maybe you should put it Mid-game so the players can experience the basic mechanics of the game, especially the portals.

Awesome video! What Anthem did (which I think was pretty clever) is to over-heat the engines if flying too high, and cool them when flying down. It’s kind of having a max ceiling distance, but you can tailor it to different areas, where some heat the engines faster than others (and the user doesn’t perceive it). Of course, your game doesn’t have any engines, but maybe the magic energy doesn’t reach when the player is high up in the air, or there’s a giant flying whale that eats the player if they reach a threshold 😁

i have two funky ideas - enemies specific for air combat with brooms could be cool, like bomb spells with huge aoe for ground target and more precise magic missiles to deal with flying enemies, the the witch can work as a figher bomber plane, maybe some mission specific thing like a bossfight agaisnt a dragon where the mana cost for flying is reduced to zero during the flying phase for this setpeace - second one is silent hill aproach for render distance, so the player can fly as high as the sun(hopefully without burning their brooms) but a fog hides the distant terrain to save some frames

Maybe when attacking an enemy on a broom the player will slowdown after dealing Damage to the enemy and not be able to use the boost to get away with the broom while being engaged in battle.

big’ol monsters in the sky. towers that shoot different magic, flying dragons or other creatures that attack, etc. You could even say in the lore that the sky is its own domain and so you’ll only be attacked by those creatures when you’re flying. This would also allow you to lock off the sky in some areas, you’d have to destroy a tower next to a boss battle or whatever you have in mind in order to take to the skies with out getting shot down.

I'm sure this will be drowned out in the other comments, but could you do something like increasing the mana consumption of flying the higher you go? you could make it super restrictive and have it scale up really quickly so players can't go too high otherwise their mana depletes super quickly. Love the look of the game so far, keep it up.

Maybe when attacking enemies on the broom, your "aim" are much larger, as in, it will hit randomly within this circle. Since your witch is both focused on staying on the broom, as well as slinging spells, so it makes sense that they can't be as precise and delicate, and are more likely to just throw something in a general direction, in hopes that it hits something.

Let's go!! i've been waiting this devlog for 3 weeks!

Really excited to see the progress of this game, keep doing your thing AIA! You've quickly become on of my favorite game dev channels lol

for the brooms i recommend that you cap how high you can fly relative to the terrain, also the brooms feel more of a mid to late game thing.

How about the higher up you go, it drains mana faster so by the time you get to that height, you run out. Alternatively, you could add a cloud layer, your vision gets lower as you go higher or something I don't know really.

The flying looks super fun in this! Also, your video editing is amazing! I like that the flying uses mana - especially considering that you drop your stuff when you die, so you can't just hop on a broom and fly away in a panic unless you have the foresight to leave early or distance yourself enough to use a potion. But, it feels like being able to attack while flying could be a problem later down the track when players have a lot of mana and mana potions. Maybe enemies that shoot ranged projectiles/hitscan could help? (I feel like I'm not helping with the feature bloat here... sorry about that.) Very excited to see where this goes - already wishlisted!

Great video as always. One way to do it would be to make it cost mana the higher up they go (at an exponential rate or something similar so it's basically hard capped). This way players are incentivised to fly at low altitudes to preserve their mana but they are able to go for a sight seeing tour once in a while. But not too high or their mana bar would be drained in seconds. And you got an immersive reason for it too. Higher altitudes, thinner air, harder to maintain lift.