In private testing Four Stripes: Pilot Career
Every hour logged is a decision you already made.
Play it on Android now
There is a playable Android build running as a private alpha on Google Play. It is invite-only, so ask and you will be added by hand — there is no automatic sign-up, and no link that would let you in without me.
The email opens with a couple of prompts already in it. The one that matters is your Google account address — that is what an invitation is attached to, and it is often not the address people write in from.
Once you are added, the game installs and updates through the Play Store like anything else on your phone. Google caps this kind of alpha at 100 testers, so places are genuinely limited; if it is full I will say so rather than leave you waiting.
A pilot-career simulation that runs from the hours nobody pays you for to the left seat — and then past it, because command turns out to be a different job. Get hired by an airline that published what it wanted years before you could meet it, then find out that the thing deciding your life is a number on a list.
What you do
- A seniority number that improves for one reason only — people above you leaving — and resets to zero the day you change airlines
- Bid every month for the flying you want, and find out what your number is actually worth
- Ten fictional carriers, each publishing what it wants from you long before you can offer it
- Total hours are not the qualification. Some jobs build the columns an airline reads; some pay better and build none of them
- A file that records what went wrong. It never comes off, and it is read differently as it ages
- Making captain is not the ending. Command is its own act, where the decisions stop being about flying and the first officer beside you is somebody whose career you are now shaping
- A salary that finally arrives, somewhere for it to go, and bills that come once and are large
- An EFB-style interface built for the job rather than for a menu
Privacy
Four Stripes: Pilot Career has no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no account. Your careers stay on your device unless you switch cloud saves on, and even then there is no account attached to them — only a recovery code your device makes up. The full details are on the privacy page.
Every release
Each build that reached anybody is written up, in the same words players see in the game. Read the release notes, or follow them by RSS — no email needed.
Something broken?
Email support@jshockstudios.com and tell me what happened. See the support page for what to include so I can actually fix it.