Helico Pter

Helico Pter

Etymologically speaking, the word "helicopter" is best understood not as "heli-copter," but rather "helico-pter."

Anyways, here's a game about landing a wobbly (unstable?) helicopter in increasingly perilous (and unstable?) conditions.  Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 49 (compo), for the theme "unstable."

Controls

up/W: Activate rotor    

left/right or A/D: Rotate helicopter    

Objective

It's basically Lunar Lander, but with more level design.

Pick up passengers (marked by a flag) and return them to your starting point (also marked by a flag).  Be careful to land flat (relative to the surface you're landing on) and very slowly, and don't let the body of the helicopter hit any obstacles.

Try to beat my best time of 3:21.43!

Other Details

You can press i to toggle invincibility, or press c to toggle visibility of the speed run timer.

The Windows download has only been tested in Linux (using Wine), so I can't personally guarantee that it works (although others have reported that it's fine).  The audio might also be worse on Windows.  If you're not using Linux, I recommend just playing the browser version.

The game engine is Godot, and art was made primarily in Aseprite.  Sound effects were made using JFXR.  The font for the speed run timer is Press Start P2.