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Thanks, I'm stoked that you enjoyed it. I'll post another video to let people know when the next update is released.

Thanks, I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the feedback but I'm not sure which camera view you mean as I haven't played battlefield 1 sorry. From looking at a video of someone playing I notice that the camera stays locked to the aircraft's roll. I do have this camera mode but it depends on what device/mode you're using to fly. With the mouse if you turn on "relative flight mode" then it will keep the camera locked to the aircraft's roll, but you can unlock it to look around. For gamepad and joystick it's automatically locked to the aircraft's roll, and there's a button which you can use to recenter the camera if you've been looking around with the mouse, thumbstick, or hat-switch.

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Not at this stage sorry. My initial focus is a release on PC, with the potential of other platforms afterwards. I have played sky on fire on mobile and it's pretty fun, although I don't think there's been any updates for ages.

@CuriousDogGames ok, soon in the near future will add mobile

The near future would probably be a bit of a stretch sorry, at this stage it would be after the release of the full game on PC, which will be some time in 2025. In principle porting games these days is as simple as changing the target platform, however in practice there's still a lot to do to account for all the subtle differences in each platform.

@CuriousDogGames let's hope 2026 or 2027 will make it come to mobile, i hope once you are skilled enough

Glad you enjoy it, and thanks for your support!

Cheers, and same to you. I'm really looking forward to this year too as there's some cool new features in the pipeline, and I'm looking forward to hitting that release button.

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback. I'm not sure about the release date at the moment, at some point I had planned to release this year, but that window is clearly closing, and there's still a lot of work to do. At this stage I'm working towards a release next year, hopefully somewhere in Q2 or Q3.

@@CuriousDogGames Great! Keep up the good work!

Hey thanks for the support

Cheers, I am aiming to implement track IR at some point. I'm just not sure where it will fit in the schedule.

Cheers, and good spotting, I had wondered if anyone would pick up on that.

Yeah, that's going to be fun to simulate.

Yeah there's lots of great ideas like that coming up, but time is my biggest enemy. My first priority is to deliver the game, then we can have fun with lots of these ideas.

It's one of those things that you um and ah about for ages - asking yourself if it is really worth the effort. Then you do it, and you wish you had done it earlier.

Thanks for the support.

Cheers, I don't usually notice much difference myself until I watch one of the older videos, and then I realize just how far things have come.

Thanks for your comment, if you go to the settings screen, then preferences tab, and untick the "show priority messages" checkbox then these won't show. I think there's a bug where the typewriter sound effects still play for the pilot assistance messages in the top right, but otherwise you should be able to disable any of the HUD elements from the same place.

The mouse flight controls are very similar to War Thunder, as I wanted something that could be just as fun to play with the mouse, and from the third person perspective it'll probably look similar too, although most flight games will. The main difference other than the time period and art style is that this is a single player game.

@@CuriousDogGames okay, Well, hope you keep going. Good luck in this game.

Thanks for your support, and I hope you give it a try.

It's called blue sky aces. There's a link in the description, or just search for it in steam.

@@CuriousDogGames thanks

Thank you

Cheers

Thanks, I'm actually quite enjoying making these little clips.

@WarlordFlanker Hey thanks, my modeler Coutin definitely does a great job.

Cheers, but I can't promise VR for the initial release. I do plan to support Track IR and similar systems this year, but VR might be something I look at next year.

@@CuriousDogGames That's a shame as I simply cannot do flight sims without VR these days.

Hey thanks for your support, I really appreciate it. I'd really love to add Mac support but there is one sticking point, which is I don't own one. Apple unfortunately have this policy that you can only build Mac software on a Mac, which makes supporting them hard. But to be fair to them, even if I could build it on Windows, I'd still need a Mac for testing. Some time later this year I'm hoping to put a WebGL build of the demo up on Itch.io, that I think will work on Mac's too.

@@CuriousDogGames Oh, I didn't think of that. Well then I am excited for when you are able to put the demo up later this year! good luck!

Hey thank you, your game looks pretty awesome too, and best of luck with your journey.

Cheers

Hey thanks for the support

Hey thanks, I'm pleased that you enjoyed it. I personally haven't played Ravenfield, but the my team mate who models the planes has, and I believe he might have made some aircraft for it too.

Yeah that's probably fair, the game started out at the arcade end of the flight sim spectrum, but there's now this tug of war between those wanting it to stay there, and those wanting it to move more toward the realistic end. This is the main reason for splitting it out into two flight models, so both sides can get something closer to what they want.

@@CuriousDogGames Tricky path to navigate! I'm going to download the demo and have a go when I get a free moment - the aesthetic and general look is right up my street! I'd like to do something similar with a Korea era game. If you need anyone to test the SIM flight model, give me a shout! 3500 or so hours flying all sorts of real aircraft, and a keen flight simmer!

Hey thanks, that would actually be really helpful. We do most of the communication via discord and there's a link in the description, but I'm just as happy to use email if discord's not your thing. It'll probably be a few weeks before I get to the point where it's ready to start testing so there's no rush. Oh and funny you mention Korea, I had a chat with someone the other day and we both agreed that the Korean war was underrepresented in the games out there, and it would be worth investigating further, albeit once we get this game out the door first.

@@CuriousDogGames Discord is cool, I'll hop on at some point tomorrow and drop you a message! Happy to offer my thoughts if they might be helpful.

Hey thanks, I hope you enjoy it.

Yup it's a ton of fun. The living ace idea is actually genius.

Hey cheers, I'm pleased that you enjoyed it. I've been thinking about ace of the day/week, but so far I haven't found an easy way to do it with Steam's leaderboards yet.

Thanks! I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you, I appreciate the support.

Hey cheers, I hope you enjoy it.

Hey thanks, and yeah go for it.

Thanks, and good luck.

Hey thanks, I hope you enjoy it.

Hey thanks for the feedback and support, and I appreciate your honesty.

Hey thanks for your kind support. Yes consoles are something that I would consider once the PC launch is out, but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself at this stage.

Awesome, thank you!

Cheers, and yes, VR is something that I'd love to do, but I'm resisting the urge for now until I have a more complete game.

Thank you!

Hey thanks for your support. I do agree with you around the flight model on all your points, and it's been something that I've been trying to make work, but it's just proving too difficult. There's definitely too camps when it comes to flight sim's, and trying to keep both sides happy is challenging. It's really important to me to keep that simplified flight model that's accessible to everyone, and doesn't require a full on HOTAS rig. At the same time I don't want to push away those that are really passionate about this stuff. The simulation model I'm aiming for is more like an arcade plus model, the physics model will basically be the same, however there will be some additional forces applied, and you'll be able to do some of the maneuvers that you can't at the moment.

Yeah the current one is trying to please both sides (arcade/simulation) and not really working for great for either. By splitting them I'm hoping that it'll allow players to choose how they want to play.

​@@CuriousDogGamesjust wondering if it'll be like the war thunder implementation? Ie arcade is just boosted hp with full control assist, but Sim is no assists

I'll probably go down a slightly different path. At this stage I'm not planning on having a different damage model, instead the focus will be around small tweaks to the flight model to give each of the aircraft some of the quirks that they were famous for, such as the Camel's tendency to pitch or yaw due to the gyroscopic effects of it's engine. Wind and other environmental factors such as the sun's position is another. The idea is that these things were deadly to the inexperienced pilots of the day, but could also be exploited by experienced pilots to give them advantages.

Hey thanks for your continuing support.

Thank you! Yes some of the collision damage is already working, but the goal is to increase the granularity further, and improve the visuals when the aircraft impact objects, such as having a wing bend based on the point and direction of impact. I'd also like to enhance the ground impacts to show dust and dirt when the aircraft hit the ground.

@@CuriousDogGames fantastic idea, i think collision and damage physics is a really big draw to combat flight simulators for most people including myself

We were actually discussing this in the team yesterday. The thoughts are that damage to certain areas like control surfaces could reduce their effectiveness, similar to how engine damage does now. The key to selling this is being able to show the damage with things like bullet holes appearing on the aircraft.

Cheers, and thanks for your kind feedback. Yes the mouse controls are fairly close to war thunder, and you can play with a gamepad, joystick, or HOTAS devices. I think the main difference is that war thunder has a whole lot of different control modes with each device, where as we've only supported the main ones for now, e.g. the gamepad operates a lot like a joystick, where as WT allows you to use it like a virtual mouse.

Sorry not at this stage, we're a small team of two and the initial focus is a Steam release, but we may look at other platforms at a later date.

@@CuriousDogGames OK no probleme I understand you're game looks amazing keep up the good work!

Thanks for the support.

Cheers

Hey thanks for the feedback.