Magic Carpet Game just finished

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#1

I just completed a game called Magic Carpet, where you have to fly your magic carpet sucessfully through a spike ridden cave. Similar to Fly Ribbon and the flash helicopter game that has been circulating on sites like addictinggames.com, this game is purely an addictive coordination game. And there is something strangely addicitng to letting the carpet fall, which it does with simulated gravity. Try it out, and fee free to give me comments. PS, I have a feeling that this game is slightly too easy, let me know what you think and how many tries it took you to get a score of over 1000. Thanks, and enjoy the game! There are also 4 other newly made games on the site - all free online games - feel free to give them a play too!

Magic Carpet Game: http://www.goldenbrew.com/play_magicCarpet.htm

Site link: http://www.goldenbrew.com

-Elliott, game designer and webmaster

#2

Great idea. Just try to polish the game:

  • the carpet should looks like more a carpet. Make it floating througout the air. A bit like a flag movement.
  • carpet movements are too fast in my opinion. What about doing acceleration for the carpet movements? It would be more controllable.
#3

Scrolls nicely. There was a one-button control competition (somewhere) recently; this would have worked well for it. Think it’s over though.

For more general usage I would suggest either mouse movement or keyboard height control. That would make play easier and would allow other game features to be added. Maybe make the carpet into an animated carpet + magician character. Just have several icons and choose the one to draw based on the current time modulo some number.

You could then have the magician fire laterally at obstacles or enemies. Obviously this makes things quite a bit more complex, but I think it would be worth it :slight_smile:

#4

nice game. the carpet falls down a little bit too fast if you intend to fall down (eg to pass below an obstacle, not above). but i guess the game would be too easy if the falling would be more slowly. :wink:

#5

nice game, controls a little too sensitive though IMO.

#6

Just thought I’d point out that Magic Carpet is the name of a game released by Bullfrog which is owned by EA. Bullfrog was one of the best game companies out there, anyway, just thought I’d point out the name conflict (I was hoping someone had made a magic carpet clone hehe).

#7

it ran smoothly, but I have the same complaint about the controls.

#8

Yep, pretty addictive. I agree that the controls may be a little severe. It seems like your upward accel is either zero or 100%. It would be nice to ramp your upward accel from zero to 100%, or vice-versa in, say 0.5 seconds or something.

#9

Ok, I’ve dampened the acceleration just a tad, and I also added a new PHP based high score table! Give it another shot, and see how you fare versus the rest of the world (or 1000 or so people who visit the site each month.)

Magic Carpet with Online High Scores http://www.goldenbrew.com/play_magicCarpet.php

-Elliott

#10

Hey, I just beat BobTester, and I have 1st place? Any prizes? :smiley:
It is a little too easy, it have to be more challenging as time passes. I killed myself when I saw nothing new is happening. But it was fun.

#11

3rd Place in 4 tries. Bring it on wimps!

Nice game. Used to play something very similar on my Palm Pilot actually.

#12

Nice, reminds me of ‘Vanguard’ but with gravity…

#13

I like it!

I’m not sure there’s much that can be done to improve this other than what’s already been stated. It’s a small game with a fun hook.