A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Every four weeks or so I hang up a streamer of industrial strength fly paper in The Flare Path water closet and see what wargame and simulation news items stick to it. Below is this month’s bag – 25 stories, most of which involve virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. If you’ve visited a transport museum or heritage railway in the past twelve months, or can put these battles – Kohima, Katzbach, Khe Sanh – in chronological order, you pro...

People often ask what the motivation was behind making Deadstick and with that I have to recall my own flight training. One of the biggest surprises was how little of the course was dedicated to physically learning to fly an aircraft, and how much focus was placed on procedures and the discipline involved to operate one safely. There are many sims that do an incredible job of simulating aircraft, but I always found that the experience of simulating the pilot and airmanship was somewhat lacking. ...

A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Every four weeks or so I hang up a streamer of industrial strength fly paper in The Flare Path water closet and see what wargame and simulation news items stick to it. Below is this month’s bag – 25 stories involving virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. If you’ve visited a transport museum or heritage railway in the past twelve months, or can put these battles – Bunker Hill, Bataan, Borodino – in chronological order,...

Tactile World One of the key philosophies of Deadstick is the focus on being the pilot not the aeroplane. To this end, we have tried to capture as many of the processes that a pilot would go through and faithfully replicate them in-game. Some of these features we have demonstrated previously, however we have since identified a few areas in which we felt we could go even further to enhance the experience within Deadstick. Some of these items are highlighted below. Briefing Rooms One of the key el...

As mentioned earlier, the delay whilst unforeseen, has allowed us to spend more time developing and refining existing gameplay mechanics as well as identifying what truly makes Deadstick a unique simulator and doubling down on those features. Much has changed since we last showed the game and it would be impossible to cram everything into this update. The following therefore is a selection of some of the items that the team are most excited to share. Will dive into some of these systems and othe...