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Elf Glider
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About the game
Elf Glider is a side-scrolling flying game. An elf on a hang glider crosses a town of colourful rooftops under a starry sky with a bag of presents on board. Your job is to fly low enough over the chimneys to drop a present into one, and the chimneys are small targets that pass by quickly.
Items float in the air: catching them gives points and adds time to the clock, and obstacles such as birds get in the way. Each level lasts 14 seconds of flying and the next one comes faster, with more obstacles, up to ten levels. If the clock runs out, the game is over.
The challenge is judging the fall: a present you let go of drops under its own weight while the glider keeps flying, so you have to release it before you are above the chimney.
Playing it here
Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. It works with touch, and with device tilt on phones that have a sensor. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Steer the glider |
| Space | Drop a present |
| Drag / tap (touch) | Fly / drop a present |
A few things worth knowing
Release early. The present falls while you keep flying, so let go before you are over the chimney.
Catch the clocks. Time is what ends the game; items that add seconds are worth a detour.
Credits and licence
Elf Glider is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.
FAQ
How many presents do I have? Enough to keep dropping them; there is a short delay between one and the next.
Does it end? After level 10, or when the time runs out.
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