Baby Air Express

Game Main Screen
Baby Air Express Company
Fly in style
Babies waiting to be delivered
Happy Families
Don't mix them up—deliver to the correct parents!
What a view!

Inspiration We were inspired by the flying scenes in Dumbo and wanted to create a Horizon experience where players can move through both ground and air. Delivering baby animals felt like a fun mechanic to build around.

What it does Baby Air Express is a flying delivery game. Players pick up baby animals from a conveyor belt, fly them to their parents across islands, celebrate a birthday, and return for the next task. Delivery count shows on-screen, and there's a leaderboard to track top players.

How we built it We used ChatGPT and Meshy to help create assets, and modeled others in Blender and Rhino. The world was built using Horizon’s editor and Typescript.

Challenges we ran into

Horizon doesn’t support custom UI scripts, so we used texture-based UIs on meshes.
No rigged animation import, so we animated bird wings manually using separate parts.
No custom flying poses, so we made the stork a wearable object that attaches to the player.
Accomplishments that we're proud of We solved multiple limitations with creative workarounds.
None of us had used Horizon before—we learned the editor and Typescript in under three weeks.

What we learned