Duck Life 1
Train a duck in running, swimming and flying, then race it for prize money to rebuild a tornado-hit farm in the 2010 original.
The first Duck Life, from February 2010, sets up the loop the whole series runs on. A tornado wrecks your farm, so you raise a duck and enter it in races to earn the money back. Three skills exist here and no more: running, swimming and flying, each with one training minigame that levels that stat and nothing else.
Races run those three legs in sequence, and you cannot steer during them. Your duck just moves at whatever speed its stats allow, which makes everything a preparation problem rather than a reaction one. Running has you timing jumps over rolling hay bales, swimming means dodging obstacles up and down the lane, and flying is about grabbing seed to hold altitude.
Controls
Mouse in menus; arrow keys in training, up to jump while running
Tips
- Training only levels the skill you are currently in, so rotate all three instead of maxing your favourite.
- Jump the hay bales late rather than early. An early hop lands you straight into the next one.
- In the flying game, seed is height. Losing altitude costs more time than a slow launch ever does.