Yeah, I like pretty much everything E14 has to say, and I'm showing that to my guys so they can internalize it. Devour it. Turn it into gameplay. Thank you.

Ideas for the gameplay:

You should include some moving objects /combomoves, so the player will
not always persue the same path when falling

And also the option, to shortly reduce (or increase) the falling-speed
(like a time-limited paracute or rockets), so the player
must time the slowdowns efficiently, given a limited
supply of rocketfuel.

Glad to see you finally posted this here, Kotaku already got it and it was on your website. All in all it looks really good, of course there has yet to be a bad dejobaan game, or at least an uninventive one. Kudos on all your original ideas and games.

Hi Ichiro, I had a similar idea for a game sometime back. But it involved a Special Forces paratrooper hunting a human target from several thousand feet. But what I thought would be cool about it was the falling in near darkness or falling through clouds to impede your visual cues. Especially as a latter stage once your use to your normal vision or way of viewing your game-world. Then as you approach the ground frantically hunting for your target. Only talent stopped me from developing the idea.

Just a few other things I think might help. More visual clues of speed like wisps of clouds rushing up as you pass through them. Birds and other moving obstacles like falling surfboards other objects parachutists might drop use especially cutting across your falling path. Maybe even things you could ride on for a short time.

Just some stuff I hoped would be helpful.

Guardian

Two things....

1) I would like to be able to bounce off buildings on the way down. Maybe even bounce up to try and hit a missed target or path....

2) Add a few letters to the name....

SPL AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAA T!!!!

Great fun game idea..... Trippy graphic efx....

There was a Parachute Jump game early on in the N64's life...


Ken

Thanks, it's always a pleasure to help Dejobaan :P



Apart from giving ranks, it's always kind of difficult to give long term-challenges for arcade-style games like this one. Maybe a system similar to the newest Smash Bros. could work, without being too hard to implement? Think of lots of goals to accomplish: They don't need to make sense ("get a score that only uses a single number (7777777)", "flip off five people in one run", "open the parachute after five seconds of free flight", "Get all red colored bonuses", "hit the terrain five times or more without dying"... whatever), but make sure to include some that will be done sooner or later ("manage more than 100 points"). Each of these goals gets its own square in a large grid, and whenever one of those goals is accomplished, the player may see the criteria for the goals around it, so for these, he knows what to do. This way, he should be able to reach "special" goals (that you should color in a different way), and these are "important" goals that unlock new stuff. Plus, it's always kind of neat in SmashBros. to get a bonus for something totally unexpectedly

This doesn't sound TOO complicated to implement, and while sounding difficult, should actually be pretty easy to understand once you see it. I'm pretty sure "Kirby Air Ride" had a similar concept. Maybe it's worth a try?
Of course, challenge-modes and similar stuff might also work :P

Oh, and music-wise... it might be cool to not only change the pitch, but put it up in layers: You start with no music at all, then when you don't have that much speed you hear drums, later on basses gets added, and when you're close to dying, then the electric guitar highlights exactly that?
Or... not :P

Error014 has indeed very nice additions to this.

I was also thinking that giving experience points based on jump times, deaths and so on and online hiscore and top players list.

What about making online play? Mass of idiots running down trying to catch the biggest score.

Great game! Good work Ichiro!

Yeah, Crashtest Dummies on the Gameboy used to have this bouncing up from balconies and so on, looked and worked great.

http://www.synthscribe.com/media/shot505.jpg

This is still an eeeeeeeearly alpha, but from our blog: