Dovetail Games is going to release two Flight Simulator games based on Microsoft’s flight simulation technology. Flight School will be released in April and will be a learning program for newcomers to the genre. The new Flight Simulator is coming later this year.
Flight School and Flight Simulator are two completely independent games, but share the same underlying technique. Flight School is being developed to teach players the basics of the sometimes very intensive simulation genre. According to the developers of the game, the introductory version is released because many people are interested in the simulation game, but they encounter the fact that it is too difficult to start with. With the simplified simulator, Dovetail also wants to lure these people to the genre.
The successor to Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X will come later in 2016 and will go much more in depth than Flight School. The flight simulator must therefore contain much more content and features. Flight Simulator will be a 64bit game and will use DirectX 11. Dovetail claims that the game will use modern processors and video cards to its fullest advantage. The idea behind Dovetails Flight Simulator is to create a platform so that content can be constantly added instead of releasing new editions. The only mode of play the studio is revealing for the simulator is Free Flight, a mode where the player can fly anywhere he wants from the start.
Dovetail Games Flight Simulator is in practice the successor to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series and therefore makes use of technology thanks to an arrangement between Microsoft and Dovetail in 2014. In December 2014, it brought Microsoft’s last proprietary Flight Simulator X to Steam.