WHERE THE RAVEN FLIES

A Medieval Courier Flight Adventure

Raven Iron Games · A Thorium Wubarrk Production

The Royal Post

One raven, one dispatch, and a long road north.

You are a raven of the royal post. A dispatch for the crown rides with you, and the road it must travel runs past every archer, crossbowman and siege engine in the kingdom.

Fly low and fast down the road. Flap to keep your height, roll and dive out of the way of arrows, and caw to rattle the men who loose them. Slip through the gates, never over the walls, and deliver.

Seventy-two stops lie on the road from Corvus Keep, each on the world map, and when they are done there is an endless road for anyone who wants to see how far a raven can go.

  • 72 stops on a 3D world map.
  • An endless road beyond them.
  • Golden hour to torch-lit nights.
  • Rivers, frost and sieges.
  • Touch, keyboard and gamepad.
  • Its own score, synthesised in code.

Trailer

The trailerA minute of the game, filmed on an Android phone, with the game's own music.
The phone cutHeld upright, as most people will fly it.

On the Road

Who and what stands between you and the next stop. In the briefings' own words.

The garrison
Archers“Dive low when arrows split the sky.”
Crossbowmen“They aim slowly but hit hard.”
Watchtowers“Yeomen in watchtowers shoot from above. Fly wide of the towers.”
The works
Gates“Fly through the gates, never over.”
PalisadesTimber walls across the road, with one way through.
Trebuchets“Flaming boulders roar through the night. Watch their arcs.”

And the men themselves have opinions about you: “Shoot the courier!” “Foul bird!” “Curse that screech!”

Pictures

A black raven flies at dusk along a dirt road towards a timber palisade with a gatehouse. A watchtower burns on the left, and an archer's aim ring hangs over the road.
At duskA palisade across the road, and a watchtower already burning.
Seen from above, the raven's road runs between two burning watchtowers. Speech bubbles over the towers read “Gahh! That caw!” and “Foul bird!”.
SunsetTwo watchtowers alight, and neither garrison pleased.
The raven, seen from behind, lines up with the opening of a gatehouse in a tall dark palisade under a violet dusk sky.
The gateThrough, never over.
A snowbound level: the road runs up to a palisade gate lit by torches. Speech bubbles read “Curse that screech!” and “My aim is ruined!”.
Frost“Cold slows your wings. Keep them beating.”
The raven crosses a wooden bridge over a wide blue river, with an archer's dashed aim line reaching for it from the bank.
The river“The river is wide and the banks are armed.”
Corvus Keep, a dark stone tower with torches at its door, stands beside the start of the road in late light.
Corvus KeepWhere every dispatch begins.
A palisade gatehouse lit by torches, seen from above and to the side, with an archer's dashed aim line crossing the road in front of it.
TorchlightEvery gate keeps its torches lit.
The world map: forests, a river and numbered stops along the road, titled The Road to Aurelmark, with the first stop, Corvus Gate, selected and a red Fly button.
The world mapThe road to Aurelmark, one stop at a time.
The title screen on a phone held upright: the crest, the words Where the Raven Flies, and Tap to Begin, over a forest road.
TitleOn a phone, upright.
A siege level on a phone: the raven flies up the road towards a torch-lit palisade gate while archers call out.
Siege“Loose the arrows!”
A frost level on a phone: the road through snow to a palisade gate, with the raven below it.
FrostWhite to the knees.

Every picture here is a frame of the game, filmed on an Android phone and shown without the on-screen controls. The game is still being made.

Where It Flies

Coming to itch.io. Not on sale yet.

Try it first. The download will be free to try. When you want to keep flying, buy the game on itch.io and enter your download key in the game to unlock it.

The game keeps your progress and settings on your own device. It has no ads, no accounts and no tracking of how you play. The details are in the privacy notes.

Credits

Who made it, and with what.

The Raven Iron Games hallmark: an iron raven with spread wings over a runic shield.
Raven Iron Games
The A Thorium Wubarrk Production hallmark: a glowing cyan wolf in a ring of runes.
A Thorium Wubarrk Production

An original game. The music is its own score, and every sound and note of it is synthesised in code when the game starts.

Some of the 3D models (the raven, the trees, and the towers, walls, keep, fortress and trebuchet) began as models generated with Meshy, an AI tool, and were then fitted and finished for the game.

Typefaces: Cinzel, by Natanael Gama, and Spectral, by Production Type, the same ones the game uses, under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1: Cinzel licence, Spectral licence.

Made with Unity. Where the Raven Flies is not sponsored by or affiliated with Unity Technologies or its affiliates. Unity is a trademark or registered trademark of Unity Technologies or its affiliates in the U.S. and elsewhere.