Try your best to land parachute guy in the zone.
Featuring progressive difficulty curve.
Submission for #Trijam270

Space to interact. 
HTML is barely working, go get the executable instead

made in Gamemaker 1.4

Stuff i havent got around to add:
-Sound
-Obstacles

Writing and tweaking the physics for our guy took up almost all the time.
The wind is a pseudorandom function composed from sine,cosine and arctan

Each session there is a randomized tile floor and randomized clouds that move about a bit on seperate sine waves. I like how the clouds especially turned out, its just 3 sprites i made with the brush tool in under 1 minute, then another 10 to get the generator and some background hue shift working. I wanted to incorporate some mountains and trees as possible obstacles, but i didnt get around to add them due to the time constraint, although the backend is already there. Flocks of birds that would dazzle the player was another feature i had to cut. Sounds i did throw in last minute, but definetly worth it. In the end it all came together so i could tie in the score with the wind strength and size of the landing zone through a simple difficulty variable that increases with scored points.

The HTML5 version doesnt show any UI, and gameplay is mildly different since it auto-deploys the parachute. On windows target you press space another time to open the chute at the right time. Although there was no time left to adress these issuess.

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InTheZone_v1_3.exe 20 MB
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InTheZone_v1_2.exe 20 MB

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