- Pace66.5 · rather frantic
- The world scrolls by without stopping, faster and faster, a chimney or a crane every two seconds, gusts to dodge on a whistle, and rain music that climbs from 120 to 150 beats during the storm.
- Difficulty53 · in between
- Four ribs on the umbrella: each hit breaks one, and at the last you start again from the last lighthouse, half a minute back. After two falls in the same place, the gaps widen a little, without the game saying so.
- Tone56.5 · in between
- A child losing an umbrella, a frightening storm in the middle of the sea, lightning, and at the end another child in the rain whom the umbrella comes to shelter. You fear for it, then you're glad.
- Story34.3 · rather silent
- Few words: the name of each place you cross, written on a sign, and nothing else. The story is in the first picture and the last.
- Scale63.6 · in between
- You start from a bus stop and a child, cross a city and a sea in one night, and at the end the view pulls back to the map of both shores.
- Form38.3 · in between
- The game everyone knows, where you press to rise and let go to fall, with one idea of its own: the gust that turns the umbrella inside out if you keep it open at the wrong moment.
- Look86 · lush
- A crowded city in the rain: thousands of drops, lit windows, signs, pigeons taking off, chimney smoke, containers, the sea rising, lightning, then dawn. Toned down on old phones.
The theme
One rainy evening at a bus stop, a gust turns a child's yellow umbrella inside out and carries it off. You are that umbrella. The wind takes it over the street, the rooftops, the harbour, then the sea in a full storm, and it only comes down in the morning, on the far shore, over another child waiting in the rain. Then the view pulls back, and you see the whole map, with the dotted line of its journey.
The mechanics
Press (finger, click, Space or the up arrow) to open the umbrella: it catches the wind and rises. Let go and it closes and falls. Slip between lampposts, chimneys, cranes and waves. Each hit breaks a rib; at the fourth you start again from the last lighthouse you passed. Each stage adds one thing: gusts that turn the umbrella inside out if you leave it open, cranes going up and down, the storm and its lightning, then the landing.
Palette
Rain-slate #1d2633 and #2b3a4a, a bright yellow umbrella #ffd23f, blue-white rain #cfe8ff, lit windows, sea-green signs #2ee6a6, red lights #ff4a3d, red, teal and navy containers, a dark green sea #0e3a46, then a coral dawn #ff9b7a and peach #ffd9a8. Fredoka for the title, Nunito for the rest. Wet, windy, and gentle at the end.
