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BaD #12: A Day with Flight Control
Published on February 19, 2014 12:33 AM
Part of the Series - Blog a Day (BaD) 2014
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There’s a whole subgenre on the App Store of line-drawing-direction games, and the granddaddy of them all (or at least the one that made them popular) is Flight Control. Your screen shows an airfield with two different runways and a helipad. Various aircraft fly in from off screen and you must direct them to the appropriate place to land by drawing their flight path on the screen. It’s simple but things quickly get hectic as the screen fills up with planes and jets and helicopters and biplanes and probably other things I haven’t seen yet. When two of them crash into each other, it’s game over. It’s a lot of fun.  So far landing 65 aircraft is my high score. Oh, and that’s just the first airfield. There are five more that change things up, four of which I haven’t even tried yet! With perfect touch controls, quick play sessions, and plenty of maps, it’s an ideal mobile game that I’ll probably be playing for a long time to come.

This is part of the tame beginning

Oh yeah, that's more like it

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Posted on February 19, 2014 1:48 AM

I just love the vast array of different types of games that are available to us in so many, many ways. This game looks like fun.

Posted on February 19, 2014 1:41 PM

We certainly have a wealth of options and choices Smile Flight Control is also available for the PC and the PS3 (though that version might be Move-exclusive, I don't remember), so maybe you can play it one of those ways...?

Posted on February 19, 2014 7:11 AM

Man, do I want a tablet bad. Wii-U or tablet. That is the question this year.

Posted on February 19, 2014 1:43 PM

That is quite the choice. Personally, I'd go with the Wii U. It would probably be cheaper than a nice tablet and it's got some really great games. My wife and I are playing Super Mario 3D World right now and it's incredible. So much fun!

Posted on April 13, 2014 3:45 PM

Just looking at this game gives me the shivvers. I'ms ure it could be fun for some but given how air traffic controlling is a taxing job as it is, I'm not sure I'd wnat to do something like that for fun, even if it is just a line drawer.

Posted on April 14, 2014 1:13 AM

Less stressful than Papers, Please, I'm sure.