Luftrauser

By: Derek Yu

On: June 28th, 2011

Vlambeer has released a new game, called Luftrauser. It’s very simple – use the arrow keys to fly around and press X to shoot and take out enemy planes, jets, and boats. The controls are good, though, and the action ramps up quickly.

A few things to keep in mind: 1. your plane can hit the water at any speed without taking damage, and 2. it regenerates health.

TIGdb: Entry for Luftrauser

Posted in Action, Browser Games, Shoot-em-ups | Tags: Jwaap, Vlambeer

http://twitter.com/jotapeh JP Stringham

This game is frickin’ awesome.
http://about.me/AShahmoradian Arno Shahmoradian

I like, is it on the iPad or iPhone?
Guest

It’s a good game for a quick play. Nothing long lasting or something I’d return to though.

Letting go of the gas and hitting it again after doing a 360-pew-pew-turn feels amazing.

Is there a way to make it fullscreen though?
DerekYu

You are the worst kind of person.
http://about.me/AShahmoradian Arno Shahmoradian

Your the worst kind of person that has no clue. This game would rock on the iPad, iPhone or Mac.
http://about.me/ortoslon ortoslon

correction: you take damage if you hit water hard enough to submerge
Richard Malinar

That’s fantastic :o
http://twitter.com/Lizardheim Arne Lie Bergheim

Get a job, hippie.
Guewt

Whooosh
Loki

Yeah, too bad they don’t support flash.
Also, protip: this should be playable on a mac, wtf are you doing?
http://twitter.com/verythrax verythrax

Little awesome gem!
http://twitter.com/verythrax verythrax

Little awesome gem!
http://twitter.com/sabanski_n Nathaniel Sabanski

This looks amazing! Downloading now.
http://twitter.com/sabanski_n Nathaniel Sabanski

The 2-3 atom gameplay works really well. Nice subtle effects like the water shooting up when you fly close down, and when the plane is on fire. I totally freaked out when I saw the huge battlecruiser!
http://twitter.com/sabanski_n Nathaniel Sabanski

Awesome design decision to not kill the player on impact with the water as it’s difficult to see. The bouncing effect feels good.
Snow (real name: Arno)

Off topic. Nice to see another Arno.

On topic. I could see this game on iOS mobile. I finally admit that Refenes was right (and not a douchebag) in comparing the iPhone to a tiger handheld, however, simple quick arcade games like the above are perfectly suited for simple platforms. I think iOS is suited for *some* games.
KaLanGO

Should be ported to Android, its just a AIR batch file thing….
robolee

I hate it when in this type of game enemies kill you by suiciding, I can’t be the only one can I? There’s then nothing human about the AI, just mindless “go towards player” orders. This is common in a lot of games and it just annoys me. It’s not hard to make the enemies try to back up a bit or dodge you if they are too close. I guess this complaint is personal preference and some would argue the opposite…

Also I don’t really like how when you stop accelerating your velocity zeros in about a quarter of a second and gravity takes over, makes the gravity and air resistance feel way too strong.

Other than those complaints it’s pretty good but I don’t think I’ll be going back to it.
robolee

Also the time between dying and respawning is way too long and annoying.

However the game is very well polished and looks and sounds excellent. I do like the game despite my criticism.
Anonymous

Feels like a trampoline!
Anonymous

Feels like a trampoline!
Anonymous

I just remembered “Get that Sub!” ( http://www.64digits.com/games/index.php?cmd=view_game&id=2484 ) which was a previous game from one of the developers. Man, I had a ton of fun with that back in school…
Vania

It was cool, but it only gave me like 5 minutes of fun.
http://jamesgecko.com/ James

Suicide is a viable strategy! You can take out the first few rounds of planes simply by ramming them.
Squoon

I think I liked that way more than I should have.
modred11

I don’t know how many hours of play time I’ve gotten in on this game, but it’s awesome. I never play games that much, but this one’s really good.

Also: I Took Down A Battleship!!!

Yay me.

Took me a few days to do that though
Barry Burce

It hurts my eyes