I wanted to get the final part of the Magnetic Family Board Game obsession out the way today, but things have been cheerfully broken. So instead, let’s fill in time with a little more webgame timewastery. When forwarding this to me, Simon Parkin said that I had to give it to day 5, after which, there’s no turning back. He’s entirely right. Again. It’s called Learning to Fly and it’s the story of a penguin, offended by a wikipedia page, who tries to prove he can fly. Maybe if he gets a glider. And attaches a rocket. And… well, it’s alternates between trying to maximise your flying while having the constant motivation of knowing whether you win or fail, you’re getting cash towards the next delivery from the ACME school of penguin-flight. Good fun.
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@Oliver
You can best that without ever doing anything but feathering the rocket thrust. Seriously, just don’t touch anything but the space bar.
i somehow managed to beat it in 14 days once. how? no frigging idea.
15 days is a repeatable record though.
@Oliver 2200 feet?? with everything upgraded? That must be a record.
I hate it. With a passion. Fantastic Contraption all the way
The ending was lame.
I finished it in 20405 days. What’s with this anyway?
27 days on my first go, nice little time waster.
I’m obviously insanely poor at this game, because I still can’t get the 6000 feet thing. Gah.
Have you tried some of the tips in this comment thread? I was rubbish at it too, but if you just copy a proven strategy the execution isn’t hard. It’s really not worth it for the sake of seeing the ending though, and if you have to ‘cheat’ you lose the satisfaction of being awesome at penguin flight,
Well, I’ve tried pretty much every strategy listed here, and always end up with about 5700 feet. To be honest, I think I’ve already lost the satisfaction of being awesome at penguin flight. But hey, I’m sure that eventually someone will release one of these games and I’ll find I’m anything other than exceedingly poor at it :).
A good lunchtime laff. 31 days I think. Serves me right for saving up for the big guns. I wish at the end he updated the Wikipedia entry. Would’ve been more epic.
Also, I didn’t think it possible to make so many bird puns out of Foo Fighter songs. Truly RPS is full of win.
Guys, it’s really not hard
Just boost as you come off the ramp, point your nose a 15-25 degrees upwards and make sure you don’t go in to the red (but stay close to it. Go into a steeper climb if you go into the red). Once the boost runs out just do a very long descent down to the water and glide your way home (no bounces needed)
Someone already made a tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxVtUzbB6kk
I also ended up at 31 days! :-) Good fun, disappointing ending. I coasted to 6000 following a sine-like pattern over a limited height, boosting every once in a while if my altitude or speed dropped too much.
I assumed when I read “reach 6000 feets ?” with an s at the end, that I’d be reuniting with a colony of 3000 happy penguins. Gaping missed opportunity.
Paul: same here! Which made the actual ending doubly disappointing.
36 days here. Took me a while to get the hang of it but a very fun game. So sad.
This game was cool, I wasted far more time on it than I care to admit. I had never played Hedgehog sling either, also awesome for mindless amusement.