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Constant zooming and unzooming is annoyng as hell. I's rather see small animal and a lot of landscape then details, which I can't pay attention to anyway. Also it makes timing of drops much harder than i has to be.
Completely agree. This is one of the things we've fixed for the sequel: the camera is a lot less nauseous / zoomy, the characters are a bit smaller in comparison to the terrain, and you have more time/vision to plan out your dives.
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TIPS FOR HARD BADGE: 1. Animals do not have any differences, neither do hats 2. Gems do not give more points, only happiness 3. You should be 240-250k or more by the END of Zone Six 4. Points are accumulated based on distance and multiplier, not speed- always have x5! 5. Zone Nine is the deal breaker- you should definitely go in to it with the highest multiplier, because it takes a lot to keep your multiplier during 9&10. 6. Don't go crazy with your gliding- it slows you down, and thus wastes Happiness. I found that going with the flow, or rather, rolling down whichever hill you happen to land on was best. You only need to glide a few pixels, at most to ensure you land on the hill properly. [+] to help ensure others of this badge! :) Thanks!
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Maybe instead of counting only horizontal velocity for happiness, count total velocity but a little stricter? The rule about horizontal velocity having to be higher than a certain point in order for happiness to not drop kills me in zones 9 and 10, where the jumps provide more vertical velocity than horizontal.
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For people who are going for the hard badge, note that restarting the game will usually disable the bonus timer in zone 1. So to get those additional points, make sure that you go to the main menu to start a new game so that you can get bonus points.
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With only 470 hard badges awarded out of 21,889 medium badges awarded, something is wrong here. The problem with Dillo Hills is that the supposed player has very little control over the outcome. I am tired of unavoidable thunderclouds and vast expanses of gently rising slopes. If you can avoid landing on a gentle slope, launching off of one can give you such a low and flat trajectory that it becomes impossible to grab a downhill roll. If you do wipe out, it is difficult to start back up because you will both overshoot the next valley and undershoot the next peak. In zones 9 and 10, the final zones, you will constantly lose speed and happiness to an invisible wind, so you need to start with 5x happiness and race through to the end before you run out of steam. Contrary to some advice, crystals are helpful in the final zones, because they give you that "crystal boost" you've been upgrading. The longer I was played by this game, the lower the rating became. 1/5.
Good feedback, and I agree with pretty much everything you said. I also think 400k is a bit too high for a hard badge (something in the ballpark of 350k or even just reaching the end might have been more appropriate), but alas, I don't pick those numbers. We've definitely tried to remove a lot of the other frustrations you mentioned for the sequel, especially unavoidable obstacles, the weird difficulty curve (1-8 are boring, then 9 and 10 are unforgiving), and how difficult it is to regain momentum after a crash.
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Could I suggest having the prices/challenges visible with a mouse-over on the shop screen? Clicking through to each one individually isn't really necessary.
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My only complaint is that it tells me "Awesome!" and "Perfect!" and then takes away my happiness. If you are doing the jumps that well, why doesn't happiness increase?
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Playing this game, I've learned an important life lesson. Happiness isn't about getting the most money you can earn, or getting your greedy paws on some crystals. Happiness is about learning to fly, even when you've been given no wings. Sure, life has it's ups and down, but come rain or shine, you just have to brush it off or keep moving, or you'll find yourself miserable and stuck in rut.
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Finished it twice with like 370k points. How do you even get points? Hitting Birds? Perfect Landings? Maintaining Happyness? A little explanation would be helpful.
You get points for distance traveled, perfect jumps, high jumps (but not how long you stay up there), bird bounces (more points for double and triple stomps), mushroom bounces, and bonus time left at the end of the level. And all of the points you earn are multiplied by your current happiness (up to 5x). The method I've had the most luck with is doing a very sharp zig-zag pattern: go up to get the high jump bonus, then go straight back down to land a perfect jump again. Keep up this zig zag pattern and try to get as many perfect and high jumps as you can without letting your multiplier fall below 5x and without sacrificing too much bonus time. Levels 9 and 10 are very difficult and poorly balanced: do your best to maintain your speed and hit birds, don't worry as much about zig-zagging on those levels.
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I feel like making players be a specific character to unlock hats is a little counter-productive. A completionist is going to want to unlock all the hats and while playing as the squirrel they may end up hitting three birds on zone two by accident and not earn the hat. Kind of seems like it would just imbue rage to me.
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*at level 10, with only 2 happiness, finally see the steep* YESOMGYES I MADE IT NOW I HAVE A WHOLE LEVEL TO GET THE LAST 10K... *game ends* FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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The game could use an "oh crap" button for those times when you know you're about to hit a wall or a hill peak dead on. Maybe a quick hop back into the air and give it a cooldown so it doesn't get abused.
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I always seem to miss gems at the start and end of each zone? The visual clutter in this game is amazing (which is a bad thing). You really don't have a lot of agency. Even the softest landings are devastating, mitigation doesn't work. Overall I don't like it but it's OK. 3/5
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Some tips for the hard badge (credits go to 123aaa789, and fricknmaniac and me); first of all get all upgrades. This can be done simply by choosing for zen mode at the main menu and leaving the game for a couple of hours without playing. The game will automatically get gems for you. For the 400k you'd need to get perfect landings on 80-90% of your jumps, and you'll need to have 4x or 5x hapiness. Crystals only improve your speed, not your score, so don't focus on the crystals. Mushrooms and birds do improve your score, so try to fall on them; they will bounce you up. And of course, go for the distance and get some time bonusses; those will improve your score. Practice makes perfect - good luck! 400k will be tough to get. Cheers!
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Tip to get the hard badge: Always get 5x mutiplier, don't mind about getting all diamonds, if you go fast, without many mistakes and getting few diamonds, you can get the hard badge. And max all updgrades, the "time bonus" one helps a lot!
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The biggest problem with the game is that the environment doesn't adapt to the speed of the armadillo. The slopes should become wider and more gentle as you go faster, making it easier to travel at high speed, instead of getting up there, and then hitting a pair of slopes that you can't dive on or glide over without a Jedi-like ability to know they would come at you before you see them. 3/5
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needs more upgrades that actualy do something... all of them have so minor effect it have nearly no impact on the gameplay whatsoever... i couldnt even tell when i fully upgraded that i actualy had
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This game is killing me. Every time I'm about to break 400000 the game ends. A max level doesn't belong in a game like this.
Hmmm, that's very odd!
All data is saved in a SharedObject, which is sort of like a cookie made specifically for Flash. That means it's tied to your computer, not your Kong account. For future games, I'm planning to include remote login and data storage, that way your data will always be safe online. :D
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Cool concept but poor execution, I think. Really annoying having something popping up saying "awesome" "ouch" "perfect" literally every moment of the game. Very distracting and makes it run slower. When I put it on low quality to increase the speed, it messes the whole game up.
Totally agree. The popups are invasive and the UI is kinda ugly all around. And the game's performance/optimization is just abysmal. It's crazy how much I've improved since this game. I'm really eager to get the sequel out. :P
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A little bug : when you're going down a slope, if you right click to open the contextual menu, wait a few seconds and close the menu, you will go at a very high speed. But you don't earn enough points to earn the hard badge. Works on firefox but not on chrome as the game go on on chrome when you open the menu. Maybe there is something to learn for the developers :)
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Wow, a game inspired by Tiny Wings! Not just that, but this game's actually really fun with its own upgrade system and mechanics. (and hats!)
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This game teaches us to only do things for our own pleasure. I mean, do you see the 'dillo's face when he's happy? he looks high - quite literally.
I've had a couple people report that problem, but I have been completely unable to reproduce it. I've tried on several different accounts with several different browsers, and it works every time for me (http://i.imgur.com/jILdN.jpg). Are you stomping all 5 birds in one playthrough, or over multiple games?