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Duck Flight
One duck, one long line of reeds, one button. Flap through the gaps and see how far you get before the reeds get you.
Duck Flight is a single-button flyer: tap to flap, gravity does the rest, and touching a reed, the water or the sky ends the run. Each gate you pass is one point.
The detail that changes how you should play it is that the difficulty is tied to your score, not to the clock. Every gate you clear makes the scroll a little faster and the gap a little narrower. Sitting still between gates costs you nothing at all — the game does not get harder while you hover, because it only tightens when you score. That is the opposite of how most endless games work, and it means there is no penalty for pausing in open air to get your rhythm back before the next gate arrives.
It also means the run has a shape. The gaps narrow so slowly that on a typical screen it would take around seventy-five gates to reach the minimum size, which almost nobody sees. What actually kills you is the speed, which rises with every point and shrinks the time between gates even though their spacing on screen never changes. Ten points is respectable. Twenty-five means you have found the rhythm.
How to Play
- Tap the screen, click, or press Space to flap once.
- Every flap lifts the duck; gravity does the rest.
- Fly through the gap between the reeds. Touching a reed ends the run.
- Each gap you clear is one point. The gaps get tighter as you go.
Controls
Desktop
- Space or Up arrowFlap
- PPause and resume
- RRestart
- MSound on or off
Mobile
- Tap anywhereFlap
Gameplay tips
- Short, separate taps. The flap sets a fixed climb speed rather than adding to it, so rapid tapping does not lift you higher — it only stops you falling.
- Hovering between gates is free. The game only gets faster when you score, so there is no cost to steadying yourself in open air.
- Aim for the middle of the gap, not the edge you can see best. Gate heights are fully random and the next one may be nowhere near this one.
- Watch the gap you are flying into, not the duck. The duck's position is something you already know.
- The gaps narrow so slowly that the speed will get you first. Practise rhythm, not precision.
- The visible duck is wider than the part that can hit a reed, so a clip that looks fatal often is not.
About the game
One button, one point per gate, one collision to end it. There are no lives.
The flap is worth understanding mechanically: it sets your upward velocity to a fixed value rather than adding to it. Two taps in quick succession do not lift you twice as hard — the second simply resets you to the same climb rate. That is why panic-tapping drives you into the ceiling and why the game rewards a steady, deliberate rhythm.
Difficulty advances per gate, not per second. Each gate passed adds 0.05 to the scroll speed and takes about 1.1 pixels off the gap, with the gap bottoming out at just under a quarter of the screen height — around seventy-five gates on a typical display. Because gates are always spaced the same fraction of the screen apart, the rising speed is what squeezes you: the distance stays constant while the time to react keeps shrinking.
The duck's collision box is about 80 per cent of the radius it is drawn at, so it is roughly half again as forgiving as it looks. Gate heights are placed at random with no smoothing, so two consecutive gates can sit at opposite ends of the screen.
Frequently asked questions
How do I score?
One point for every gate you pass. Nothing else scores.
Does it get harder over time?
Not over time — per point. Each gate you clear makes the scroll slightly faster and the gap slightly narrower. If you hover without scoring, nothing changes.
Why do I keep hitting the ceiling?
Flapping too often. Each flap sets the same fixed climb rate, so extra taps do not gain height, they just stop you descending. Let the duck fall a little between taps.
How narrow do the gaps get?
They shrink by about 1.1 pixels per gate down to a floor of just under a quarter of the screen height, which takes roughly seventy-five gates. Most runs end long before that.
Is there an end?
No. It is endless and the score is the point.
Does the game play the same on a phone and a desktop?
Not exactly. The duck size, flap strength, gap size and speed are all scaled to the screen, so a tall narrow phone window and a wide desktop window feel meaningfully different.
What is a good score?
Ten is respectable. Twenty-five means you have found the rhythm.
