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Crow Wing

By elliottd

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness363
Innovation1553.72
Graphics1653.81
Mood1753.47
Theme1934.06
Overall2443.55
Audio2563.13
Fun4003.26
Humor6262.03

Comments

misteak 2015-12-14 12:32

nice! I liked how the character changed to reflect the items you got. also: stomping buttons <3

xenosns 2015-12-15 02:15

cool idea!

ultravisitor 2015-12-15 15:30

This is briliant! Nice work elliotd. After I completed the game I kept playing and Iw as able to kill the straw men with my claws. Super cool. I was amazed at how many different things you got the character to do. Its a bit disorienting at the very beginning but after you understand whats going on its fast and fun to play.

buddhaman 2015-12-15 17:55

Very cool how you can do so much with only two buttons. It was very intuitive.

memoryleek 2015-12-15 18:06

Creepy music and nice graphics, makes for a nice mood :)
Was a bit hard to grasp in the beginning, but once you understand the controls it's fun.
I had some graphical artifacts on Linux, looked like some glitching polygons, but nothing too major.

stitchesmagoo 2015-12-15 18:11

Love the art, really do! Nice attention to details all these add to the creepy atmosphere. Nice work.

ripatti 2015-12-15 18:14

Interesting mechanics. I like performing actions in two steps and the action that it will be depends on which button is pressed on the second step. Nice models too!

drteaspoon 2015-12-15 18:42

Some parts of the level didn't show on smaller resolutions. (the very last bit with long flight)
Innovative puzzle controls. The items being reflected on character was good touch.

ssjmetroid 2015-12-15 21:22

Very solid entry. I am personally not really into puzzle games but I played through this one.

chewie 2015-12-15 21:30

Great game! Movement mechanics, items that give you additional abilities, everything is great. It's one of the best puzzle's on this LD I think. Overall flow is just right. Great job ;)

teamflare 2015-12-15 23:26

Quite a Jack of all trades :) very nice entry, loved the timelapse!

nodens 2015-12-16 04:08

This is a really cool game. Enjoyed seeing the character changing (or growing as part of the theme). Would love to see more from this.

onlyslightly 2015-12-16 04:10

Loved the mechanic. The puzzle were interesting without being frustrating. Getting the crows feet and the wings felt really cool. The low poly aesthetic was lovely,along with the music it gave it a surreal quality

roguenoodle 2015-12-16 12:19

Really nice work! Nice visuals, unique puzzles, and the level design did a great job of making the various mechanics clear without needing a tutorial. Would love to see this expanded on, actually

tuism 2015-12-16 13:01

Hmmmmmm.

The mechanics feel completely arbitrary, and sometimes doesn't quite follow its internal set of logic. Sometimes I would walk along flat stuff and become a ledge grab.

It feels like a sokoban game, which is a good thing, but I feel like the internal logic needs to be stronger for it to become a puzzle to solve rather than a thing to try everything to see what works. The saving grace was that "everything" was two buttons and things happened really quickly so it was easy to try everything quickly.

elliottd 2015-12-16 14:54

thanks @Tuism, I'm going to try to address that with a bug fix. there are a couple platforms that were set up incorrectly. Also fixing the camera cropping @DrTeaSpoon

local-minimum 2015-12-16 16:02

Interesting way to build up a puzzle and make the most out of two buttons. The stomping/heavy drop was really nice. Great work on models in general. I didn't really get if the game was meant to look a bit glitchy on some tiles or if it was a technical issue. I'm all for glitch though, but the game didn't look like a glitch game. A way to exit the game would have been nice too. Interesting start for a puzzle-type platformer, it'd be nice to see where you take it if you decide to continue dev on it.

tapehead 2015-12-16 20:41

a bit confusing but very interesting and cool implementation of control! good job! :)

farelle 2015-12-16 21:11

Very nice, it's a bit hard to get into it though, regarding the changes of characters behaviour with only 2 buttons and for some reason the later lvls had textures replaced with pure black (from other comments I would say it's the resolutions fault) overall, the atmosphere was nice and the character visual changes including the skill changes were really interesting :) and I like shapeshifting :D

tony-coculuzzi 2015-12-16 21:15

I loved seeing this progress, it turned out really awesome!

jackolondon 2015-12-16 21:20

cool idea! I don't know if it's a bug or something, but some platform are displaying black, whitout texture.
Great job by the way!

keanerie 2015-12-17 05:50

Great stuff!! I loved the progression of the character and the puzzles.

jishenaz 2015-12-17 06:11

Lovely game! Art and controls were great. The music was quite interesting; it was atmospheric, but also a tad bit eerie. I saw the timelapse; a ton of stuff was done!

dx0ne 2015-12-17 16:32

Almost everything about this is great. Perfect use of two buttons vs lots of mechanics. Love the winged clawed hero - you must do more with this one.

Subbed on itch.io for post LD update.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2015-12-17 17:14

Original use of the 2 buttons theme!
BTW you can get rid of those pdb files in the archive, so that the zip file doesn't weight that much :)

publicidadeba 2015-12-18 13:24

Had a blast with. I liked the transformation of the main character!

codecranker 2015-12-22 18:39

Cool idea. I like the puzzles a lot.

oparisy 2016-01-03 22:22

Pleasing to play with, elegant and minimalistic mechanics. Very nice modeling, your shading is a bit strange (normals?). The "alternate" passages were a nice touch, I replayed this some times expecting a secret passage somewhere :-)