Tiny Wings

Tiny Wings is an iOS game developer Andreas Illiger the German, which was developed for iPhone and iPod touch, as of version 2.0 in the form of Tiny Wings HD for the iPad.

Game concept

Tiny Wings is designed as a single-player game, but leave via the Game Center also high scores with friends or with other global players compare.

In the game, the user takes control over a green bird that can overcome because of his excess weight and to its short wings barely long distances. The bird must be fed through a landscape of hills, of which he is to overcome as many as possible. And he has until the sun goes only so long and the bird falls asleep then. The hills of the landscape he used as ramps to gain momentum and glide as far as possible. By simply held control of the player can the bird by pressing on the screen now make "heavy", so this gets momentum while sliding down a hill. By selectively releasing the screen the bird is again "easier" and can now speed up the next hill slide and be brought even to fly. The aim of the game is to get as many islands to cross before time - expired - symbolized by the setting sun.

In the free update to version 2.0 ( mid-July 2012) was next to a novel designed menu also the mode " Flight School " is implemented. In this it is possible to choose one of the birds Owell, Peli, Peck or Flami and compete against the remaining three, now controlled by the computer, in the race. In addition to the three worlds "Clown Islands ", " Koi islands" and " Orca islands", which are divided into five separate islands, additional worlds have already been confirmed by further updates.

Tiny Wings HD

In addition to the update to version 2.0 for the original Tiny Wings Tiny Wings HD separate app in the App Store was released on July 13, 2012 also. These specially designed for the iPad app offers the features of the original app increased resolution for the Retina display on the iPad 3 addition is still a multiplayer mode included in the 2 players in split screen can compete on the principle of flight school - mode offers against each other.

Reception

Tiny Wings was published in February 2011 in the App Store, reaching there the first place of the top selling apps in 49 countries. In March 2011, it was Apple's game of the week. Since then it has been fixed in the Top 25. Currently, the app has been downloaded at least 2 million times. Also, the update to version 2.0 13 July 2012 succeeded in both the original iPhone app, and the new iPad app Tiny Wings HD again among the top 10 in the App Store.

" Tiny Wings is a thoroughly likable game: [ ... ] The music wonderfully relaxed, the operation simple. "