iFly – new iPhone game by Infrared5
iPhone app and game programming is taking the Flash community by storm. The latest entry is iFly, a new game by my company, Infrared5. This was mostly coded up by John Grden, though most of the company had some hand in it – ideas, design, testing.
The premise is pretty simple. Fly the paper airplane through the black rectangles, avoid the red ones, reach the manhole cover on the bottom before the time runs out. What are the red and black rectangles? Why do you have to fly through them, or not? Why do you have to land on a manhole cover, and why do you only have so much time to do so? Stop asking so many questions! Just play it.
There are 9 levels in all. 3 each of easy, medium, and hard. The easy ones are pretty relaxing, kind of like a zen meditation… with a timer. The medium levels offer a bit of a challenge – especially the trench. And the hard levels have you just racing for the goal, trying to avoid red rectangles and hoping some black ones magically appear within reach. The last level, “The Crippler” will have you hitting the replay button over and over, I am sure.