Hijong Park's Defender Patrol
A downloadable game for Windows
This is my first Helicopter combat flight sim, created to accomplish my small dream of piloting MD-530 Defender in the low poly world.
This game aims to be something in between arcade shooter and realistic flight sim, usually called Sim-lite.
The premise is very simple, you pilot MD-530 and manage wingmen to destroy russian vehicles in a small procedurally generated island.
It features clickable cockpit that was added as a place holder for VR support in the distant future and TrackIR. Due to my lack of experience, VR support had been post phoned.
The project is on pause for now because I'm now spending tons of time learning non-helicopter related parts, so that I can implement infantries, animating pilot body, more realistic missiles, better graphics, hand crafted worlds, more detailed missions, and VR mode later.
And when I'm ready, I'll expand this prototype into a feature complete game featuring 3 flyable helicopters.
Please read the user manual included in the game file before playing the game, otherwise you'll have hard time understanding the game.
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Development log
- 1.2 patch3 days ago
- 1.1 Patch6 days ago
- Disabled OpenXR !!!!!8 days ago
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This is awesome! Reminds me of old games like Gunship 2000. I love following your work as I also make my own way through indie game development, thank you for the inspiration.
Looks amazing and plays great! Well done and hope to see updates soon!
hey - that’s quite a step up from your pico8 days.
Excellent work👌
Looks promising!
I'll definitely will be monitoring your progress with interest! Hope you get to where you want to take this flight sim :-)
Awesome! Fingers crossed for further development!
FINALLY, AFTER 5 YEARS, NIGHT OF THE LITTLE BIRDS 2
So far all I've done is fly around a bit and after getting my controls configured this is really fun to fly around in! I love the VTOL VR simplified cockpit systems and startup, and the physics feel like a fantastic "just realistic enough to be interesting and require skill, but not so realistic that it's unflyable without a ton of practice."
It took me a couple flights to realize how easy it is to overload the helicopter. Flying with much less than full fuel made a huge difference. Maybe the default fuel could be lower, or maybe a warning to let players using the "default" flight model know they're going to have a hard time could be nice.
I haven't done any combat, just flown around a bit, but the only thing I think it needs with regards to the flight model is more trim options. Some way to apply rudder trim, since I don't have pedals, would be fantastic. I think my ideal trim setup mirrors DCS' with the push button force trim (that also applies to pedals) and then a return to center before you get authority again.
The foundation here for the flight model is rock solid though, and just throwing the little helicopter around is a blast.
I wonder if the other Hijong Park heli games count as practice. Also, YEEEEEEEESSS!!!!
Thanks for feedback WHY485. I'm currently working on adding more trim options !
update tiny combat