Flying High now available at a 25% discount as part of steam summer sale! Great time to add Flying High to your precious visual novel game collection. Check out the demo if you want to try before you buy. All Chinese dialogue has been updated with a professional translation and we've tweaked the Japanese language option as well. If you've already purchased the game, check for the automatic update. We're also working on adding a new animation of the floating bj scene to the game. Here are a couple preview shots.

[ 2024-07-09 11:46:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

As announced in our previous post, we are happy to bring to you the Flying High Demo. The demo of Flying High contains around 25% of the game (including 2 of the 10 animations) and allows you to see for yourself what the game plays like and whether it's for you.
As a reminder, here's a table that describes what the game is and isn't. We've added this prominently to the description as well.
Go ahead and play the demo and I hope you enjoy it :)

[ 2024-05-30 10:54:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Flying High took a ton of work to create across about 1.5 years, so to end up staring at mixed reviews, seriously caught me off guard. How was the game any different from previews shown?? Apparently some players bought the game with the wrong expectation, so I'm here to clarify and address some of these issues.

TLDR:

To make it easy to judge Flying High for yourself, we'll be releasing a demo very soon, so that you can play a good portion of the game for free before buying. And here's a table that describes what the game is and isn't. I've added this prominently to the description. I have zero interest in anyone buying something they don't want:
The long version:

Not a full animation.

Yes, unlike our previous full length animations, this is our first attempt at a game, a visual novel game. The visual novel format consists of moving still images and animated sex scenes, that's just how they work. I shouldn't assume that everyone's familiar with visual novels, so I've adjusted the game description to point out that this is a visual novel, not an end to end animation and not a real-time 3D game, which should be obvious from the gameplay trailer.

Story is too basic.

Yes, the focal point are the sex scenes, isn't that the point of an AVN?? At least that's the approach I wanted to take. The story is light, simple and doesn't take itself too seriously. It's not Shakesphere, but serves its purpose and I think it has its moments.

Game is too short.

Yes, it's short. Around 2.5-4 hrs (if you don't race through everything). In my mind it plays more like a movie and in that respect it's longer than a full length movie. It's also not something our testers had an issue with but I can see that if you need your 10 hours of visual novel gameplay then Flying High is not for you. I've explicitly added that to the description. I'd personally take 3hrs of good game play over 10hrs of boring. Every screen was fully rendered, almost a 1000 of them. Since every screen takes a lot longer to make that does constrain the versatility in storytelling. So for longer story telling sprites on background would have been the more efficient approach. We also started with an image set, which wasn't made for long storytelling. In future I would of course start with the story and build the set around it.

Sub-par Chinese translation

Yes, we shouldn't have released the game with a machine translation. So, I've disabled Chinese language support for now. The good news is, we've found a professional Chinese translator so we'll re-enable it once the Chinese translation has been completed and proofread. All other translations have been human proofread.

Judge for yourself. Demo coming soon!

Having said all that, I love the game we made, but I'm biased, so the best approach is to give you the tool to judge Flying High for yourself. So we'll be releasing a demo version of the game very soon, so that you're able to judge for yourself whether it's worth it for you. Agree or disagree with my take? Let me know in the comments below. I would also love to hear from others who have played the game. How did the actual game differ from the previews shown? What am I missing?

[ 2024-05-15 00:10:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Fixed a minor issue with dev console.

[ 2024-05-10 13:16:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Flying High is out now!!! Go grab yourself a copy from Steam! We hope you enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed making it! Also feel free to leave us a review and fill out the survey to help us improve in the future! Thank you for the support!

[ 2024-05-10 09:04:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's happening! We're launching Flying High tomorrow!!! And we couldn't be more excited! So excited in fact, we're discharging Flying High with a launch special! To make sure you have every excuse to treat yourself to Solar and Eclipse's story of intense unification but... you'll need to wishlist Flying High on Steam to get notified as soon as the launch special arrives! So go ahead and wishlist Flying High now (if you haven't already). While we wait just a few more hours we'll leave you with some more previews of course =)

[ 2024-05-09 10:14:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

We've added another more cinematic trailer to the flying high steam store page, which features more of the sex scenes you'll encounter playing the game. We thought that might be something you guys want to preview a bit more not sure why, just a hunch
The release is just one week away and there will be a short release discount. To get notified of the special make sure to wishlist Flying High at the Steam store! More info soon! Here are some screenshots from the trailer. The beginning features the one cut scene from the game, if you want more cutscene animations outside of the sex scenes, let us know. We'd be happy to add more, if there's enough interest.

[ 2024-05-03 11:29:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just a quick announcement. Were excited to confirm that Flying High has been green lit for release on steam for May 10th, 2024 (Fri) as well as the Affect3D store release on May 11th, 2024 (Sat). Be sure to wishlist Flying High on steam. We are currently in the process of testing different language versions including French; Spanish; Hungarian; German; Dutch; Japanese and Czech. Also, regarding Controllers, we have done an initial test and everything seems to work smoothly!

[ 2024-05-03 08:59:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to announce the upcoming release of Flying High in just a few short weeks. We've just recently updated the release with an initial set of steam achievements that will hopefully entice exploring the game.
One thing we're still working on is localizing the game for the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. We're also open to translating the game for most other languages. If you're interested in helping us translate the game for a free copy of the game and/ or other perks send us a dm or email steam@affect3d.com for more info. I'll leave you with a couple shots of the big guy sneaking up on Solar, but being the pro superhero she is, she'll make short work of the horny monster no doubt!

[ 2024-04-24 03:23:25 CET ] [ Original post ]