Flybrication

Airborne, physics-based, cooperative, building game for 2 players (currently), where one player controls a spaceglider-like vessel. The other player controls a robotic arm, which is attached to the bottom to the vessel. The arm can be used to pick up physical building blocks and stack them onto each other by using a combination of flight skills and robot arm maneuvering.

The goal is to stack the building blocks to match a blueprint reference
in the least amount of time possible.

How to play

Just launch the game using the executable. In the main menu select "Host" to start a new game (this opens a listen server on port 7777 and may trigger your firewall). You will be prompted to wait for a 2nd player to connect or just fly around by yourself. A 2nd player can join via IP (use 127.0.0.1 as the IP to join yourself when using 2 local game instances on your own PC).

Once the 2nd player has connected, both players can fly around in the warmup phase and experiment with the physics. Press 'R' to make yourselves ready. The reference blueprint tower will be shown shortly on screen. Then the building phase starts and the blocks are being distributed around the level.

The objective is to construct the same tower by collecting the blocks in the level and stacking them in the same way as the reference blueprint.

Controls

Pilot

W-S: Vertical thrust

A-D: Yaw thrust

Mouse X-Axis: Roll

Mouse Y-Axis: Pitch

Space: Tail thruster

Q-E: Roll thrusters

C: Toggle camera

Mouse wheel: Zoom out

CTRL+F: (Cheat) Freeze yourself in air. Useful when playing alone to take over the robotic arm afterwards.

Robot arm

Mouse: Look around/move arm

Mouse wheel: Extend/shrink arm

Left click: Pull and grab objects in vicinity

C: Toggle camera

F: (Cheat) When the arm is close enough to a block, pressing F causes a persistent lock on to the block. Useful when playing alone to take over the pilot afterwards.