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Keep Flying game - emalafeew - 01-28-2020
Today's update for VZfit Play contains another game for Pegasus called "Keep Flying".
It was part of the original VirZOOM Arcade collection, but took extra optimization to run smoothly with thousands of trees and hundreds and gems and apples on both the Oculus Go and Quest. Those trees also add beauty to our two other Pegasus games.
In the game you must fly precisely over tree tops to eat apples and gems, which give you the energy to keep flying. Gems give you more energy but there are fewer of them. Every 20 apples or gems moves you up a stage and increases your coin multiplier. Touching the ground (which you must do eventually after losing all energy) resets you to a stage multiplier of one.
We've also been known to call it Flappy Horse, after the similar 2D game that requires you to fly at precise heights without hitting the ground.
Don't forget, the coins you accumulate in all our games unlock avatar upgrades you can select on the main game screen. The Gold Pegasus upgrade gives you more energy capacity, a higher flight ceiling, and faster turning and landing in all its games.
RE: Keep Flying game - emalafeew - 01-28-2020
And here are some pro tips!
Your energy (represented by blue stripe on Pegasus back) only burns when you're holding down the A button to fly. To conserve energy, fly higher than the apple or gem you want to eat, and release A to glide down to it.
Also note that apples and gems do not respawn after being eaten, so there are fewer of them the longer you keep flying. So you'll want to save eating gems for later stages, because you can fly further between eating gems.
Don't be disappointed if you can't keep flying for more than a minute. It's an advanced game that rewards practice and makes a terrific workout once you get the hang of it.
RE: Keep Flying game - spyder17 - 02-04-2020
Glad to see this game back. Was wondering on the trees and plants why they aren't more like the ones on the Cali ride. Those seem so much more realistic and lifelike. The ones in the flying games as well as the other bike ride are so fake and simplistic. Also, would like to see some kind of trees and plants on the River Run game (also, please bring back the boats in that game). Thanks for all the great improvements.
RE: Keep Flying game - Snowpelt - 02-05-2020
(02-04-2020, 10:15 PM)spyder17 Wrote: Glad to see this game back. Was wondering on the trees and plants why they aren't more like the ones on the Cali ride. Those seem so much more realistic and lifelike. The ones in the flying games as well as the other bike ride are so fake and simplistic. Also, would like to see some kind of trees and plants on the River Run game (also, please bring back the boats in that game). Thanks for all the great improvements.
I am sure our Art lead could give better details than I can but the tree's in the flying game are different than Cali Rally due to the fact that you can fly around them and they have to be view-able from all directions and at a distance. The reason the tree's where just added with this update is we didn't think we could have them in and maintain good frame rates, with the wireless headsets. Ensuring a comfortable experience with a steady frame rate is our most important priority. Thankfully the our Art team was able to work some magic and find a way to squeeze in some tree's to liven up the canyon and maintain the frame rate. Will ask about getting some vegetation in River Run as well and see what we can do to liven it up.