Mon, Apr 06, 2009
FlightControl 1.0 Offers Simple Premise... But It's Not
Easy!
A brand-new iPhone application from
Firemint gives users a taste of what it’s like to work as an
air traffic controller, sequencing and directing aircraft in your
airspace to safe landings.
The "playing field" is an overhead view of an airport traffic
area. As aircraft enter your airspace, you are to direct their
flight path to a runway for landing: airliners to the long runway,
small planes to the short runway, and helicopters to the
helipad.
The game starts out on a fairly simple level, but of course
things quickly get more challenging as the amount of air traffic on
your screen soon increases dramatically. The game ends with the
first mid-air collision.
Firemint provides background to the game’s origin on its
website: "Flight Control started as a personal project for Firemint
CEO, Robert Murray, but was soon followed up with assistance from
Firemint developers Jesse West and Alexandra Peters.
"The game began as a design and development exercise over Rob's
Christmas break. Christmas holidays are one of the few times of the
year when the entire studio shuts down for a week or so and it's a
great time to get creative. Sometimes you even stumble on something
really cool!
"The game has obsessed much of the Firemint studio, along with
their significant others and friends. When we saw the buzz it was
creating in the studio, we couldn't wait to share it with everyone
else."
"I downloaded this game a week ago, and I still keep coming back
to try to get a new high score," Cnet blog author Jason Parker
wrote. "Flight Control is both incredibly challenging and very
addicting, and definitely worth the 99 cent price tag."
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