A bush-plane oriented flight simulator where back country flying is the focus and the enemy is the elements and your piloting skills is the kind of gameplay that Deadstick held up as a promise when it was first announced. The sim has gone through quite a bit of its own developmental turbulence but the news is trending in the right direction with the announcement that the project as a publisher, a developer, and the original creator is staying on to shepherd it towards release. Let’s have a look!
Deadstick is not dead
The game’s premise is that you’re flying a bushplane in a fictional back-country region where you make money by flying jobs. There’s a survival element where your pilot needs to occasionally sleep and bad weather can mean the difference between a successful cargo delivery and a costly disaster.
I’ve written periodically about Deadstick, the bush flight simulator, over the last several years. There was even the one time that a fake website was created by a disgruntled “fan” that fooled many of us into thinking the project was well and truly dead. At that point we knew that it may be a while before it resurfaced with lead developer, Chris, needing to turn attention to other projects.
Now it sounds like there is lift beneath this project’s metaphorical wings and that is good news. They have a new publisher, Mythwright who have a small number of more casual games under their belt, and a developer by the name Spiral House. According to a new video by Chris, the original creator, many of the developers at Spiral House worked on Deadstick previously so there is already familiarity with the product.
I hope that this project can come to fruition because it sounds like an awful lot of fun.
Watch the video and keep an eye on the product’s page on Steam.
Stormbirds 
Leave a comment