I’m a newcomer solo game developer and this is the first game I’ve been working for quite some time.

The game is called Flightless Star, and has a pretty unusual gameplay, playing similar to a 2D platformer, but instead of jumping you launch yourself from one planet to the next while dealing with their treacherous gravity fields, avoiding hazards and using your ever increasing movement abilities.

I’ve been working on this game for almost 2 years and there is still a lot to do :’), in the meantime I released a demo to gather feedback and show the idea of the game.

• Trailer;
• Demo on Itchio;
• Steam page;

Made a despawn animation for an enemy and later realized that they don’t despawn (at least not while on camera). So this will probably be an unused animation :T

I could use it in the enemy introduction cutscene, but it may confuse the player as they will never despawn like this in game.

Riki is having a hard time sleeping.
Well… being lost in space while dealing with some unresolved past don’t help much.

Close call (probably require some balancing on the wall speed, don’t want to demand a perfect execution on this one)

Working on the animations for a new cutscene, poor Riki can’t catch a break.

Been drawing some concepts for cutscenes. There are a lot of cutscenes to animate for the third level of the game.

These is going to take forever (ᗒᗣᗕ)

Riki is a cute and helpless bird, but that doesn’t mean he won’t show off some of his acrobatic prowess.

Puzzle time!! Remember, always pay attention to the gravity fields.

After (assuming) the player is familiar with the basic mechanics of the game, the levels will start to get more complex and challenging.

The backstory of the game’s protagonist will be told in the loading screens.

Paying attention to them will explain the sequence of events that resulted in the broken bird getting lost in the emptiness of space.

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2 year of (very slow) improvements in 3 screenshots.

Game development is hard (and slow) :T