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Birds Birds Birds

By versatile-box

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3713.6366
Fun5603.3266
Innovation1843.6866
Theme1424.0266
Graphics2124.1168
Audio2073.6363
Humor2553.5364
Mood3013.6164

Comments

kraftkar 2017-12-04 21:41

Beautiful game, great music, funny. Good job overall!

elfippo 2017-12-04 21:42

Loved the looks. Cozy music! Had a little bit of a hard time understanding what to do with the bigger birds. Good job!

mathiouza 2017-12-04 21:43

Cool game, neat graphism, cool music (but I think I already listen to it), but I do not understand how to get rid of the big birds ... Maybe I missed something ? But anyway, the game is really cool !

Keep coding :)

cocapasteque 2017-12-04 21:45

Haha good fun with this one, it is quite difficult but enjoyed it, cool concept :)

versatile-box 2017-12-04 21:56

Sorry guys, forgot to mention the music was NOT developed for the jam. THERE IS CUSTOM MUSIC BEING CREATED, but not just yet. Uploaded with this music to make sure we entered the jam.

Regarding the big birds, you can't make them go. They'll leave when they want to! The thing is those are much heavier than the small ones., so keep that in mind!

jlreymendez 2017-12-04 22:00

Neat art and fun game as expected from the such a versatile team ;) Congrats!

gamepopper 2017-12-04 22:14

Hilarious idea, poor guy in the car. Aiming felt a bit awkward, sometimes I couldn't the bird food I threw kept arching over the bird.

versatile-box 2017-12-05 03:06

Thanks everyone for your kind comments! We updated the game (just in time) to include music made by Moon Moon Moon for Ludum Dare 40!

blinry 2017-12-05 15:12

Surprisingly hard, I tried a lot of times, and I didn't manage to balance the car for longer 30 seconds or so. Very pretty graphics style. It's also a hilarious concept, I wonder how the person ended up in that situation...? Maybe some story would have added to the humor! :)

versatile-box 2017-12-05 16:22

A pixel art story was being drawn! Sadly it wasn't finished in time. We'll add it to the postjam version!

seanbeans 2017-12-06 03:39

A curious and funny idea! The mood setled by its graphics and music its relaxing. A nice little game.

2017-12-06 05:00

I assume the objective is to make the birds move by throwing the popcorn? doesn't seem to work though.

chartman 2017-12-06 05:13

I liked the graphics style of this game. I wanted to enjoy it, but I thought the game started off too difficult or I just didn't know how to throw the popcorn well enough. Maybe a preview of the throwing arc would've helped me get into this game more easily.

sorlok 2017-12-06 05:23

That was a really cool concept for the theme & a game in general. I found it hard to effectively balance the car, but that was part of the fun. Two minor points: I wish the music didn't restart when you start the game over, and I wish the "game over" animation of the car falling off the mountain wasn't blurred ---because some of the "falling" animations were hilarious!

srabatata 2017-12-06 06:18

I liked it a lot, my score is 742 points. I liked that different birds have different weights. Good job :)

versatile-box 2017-12-06 07:41

Thanks, everyone! We're taking note. Removed the blur (I wasn't sure, it was a 50-50 decision and it was kept) and the music now starts in the menu and loops until the game is closed. This is important because the song is much longer than an average game duration -also Moon Moon Moon actually made it with perfect loop in mind-.

lyrcaxis 2017-12-06 09:33

960 points~ until 2 hawks came from the right in the same second and birds stopped spawning from the left :D nice and fun little game

yngvarr 2017-12-06 11:15

Can't stop playing. Cool graphics and music, you really made the atmosphere! I would like to see some kind of timer on a screen just to know how far I am from a highscore.

kingofwhawha 2017-12-06 13:03

The graphics and audio are amazing! One thing that could be improved is that you could make the clouds oscillate up and down. The game might look a littl bit too "static" with only the bids moving in the scene. Great game!

dudum-lare 2017-12-06 15:16

I think this is my highest rated game so far! Everything is just so beautiful. I have played for a long time now.

Concerning the graphics it looks so incredibly awesome! I can’t believe how beautiful you can make something look with that simple graphics.

Concerning the audio, the music is so relaxing. It felt like I was sitting in the car eating popcorns myself! Wow, I’m impressed as you can tell.

Overall I like this game so flipping much. I had an amazing time playing it. I’ll definitely come back and play some more, even though it was kind of frustrating and hard sometimes. Thank you so much for this experience and good luck in the future! Have an awesome day, and I hope to see you in the next jam!

Here’s my highscore btw:

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// Isak from @liquidbrain

wdelvi 2017-12-06 19:20

What a lovely little concept and what a lovely inclusion of the theme! I wish there were more depth, but it looks fantastic and made me smile. Well done

talisra22 2017-12-06 19:32

nice one, but how do i feed the red birds?!

versatile-box 2017-12-06 19:36

Thanks for the amazing comments, people! The big birds are called Chimangos, they're an Argentinian bird, similar to a hawk. They currently dislike popcorn, but will eventually fly away if you survive long enough :) Good Luck!

meneer-guus 2017-12-06 19:41

The theme is nicely executed, has nice graphics to boot which makes this a funny timekilling experience which I think would be perfect for mobile phone users. The difficulty is a bit too random for my taste, because of the delay in which birds respond to your popcorn while there are already 2+ birds coming from the other side. This together with a slightly awkward throwing makes it a bit too hard. If you tweaked around with the delay I think this game could be a huge hit on mobile!

rontz 2017-12-06 19:47

Nice game! It's a simple, funny idea (i wonder about the story on how the car got stuck up there :D) and you have a nice, clear drawing style. I like it! One thing though: You could have put some space between the birds on one side, so you can count them. This would make it easier to predict how you can balance the big birds. Well done!

mollekake 2017-12-06 21:39

Cool little game! Like the art and music. Very calming. The birds however felt very random, and once 2 or 3 came in from the wron side, it was pretty much game over. Good job though!

renan-prates 2017-12-06 23:13

I made 2160 I think, really, really, really impressive, graphics, mechanics and creativite, this game is awesome, I take a long time trying to get better pontuation

icxon 2017-12-07 00:22

At first I thought player should "lure" and balance the birdies on the car, not shoo them. But then I got it :smiley:

It was fun to play, thank you!

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tiberiusuciu 2017-12-07 01:36

DAMN THOSE BIG BIRDS :O

besides those annoying brown birds. Eveything else was well executed :) I have no remark whatsoever. Perhaps that at first I thought you needed to place pop corn on your car in order to attract birds on a specific side in order to balance things out. But this works as well!

Good job!

alex-bezuska 2017-12-07 01:41

I watched it on a stream because I don't have Windows. Great art, I love the color choices. Music reminds me of Night in the Woods :heart:

roaring-cat-games 2017-12-07 01:48

Pretty fun game. It's reallly hard. I couldn't find a way to disperse the brown birds, so when they came in, it was pretty much just game over. It would be great to have some kind of indicator of what is coming up on either side (like a tetris preview).

Solid game though. Loops well, plays quick, and looks/sounds great.

versatile-box 2017-12-07 01:51

Pop corn lures birds! You need to attract them to balance the car correctly. It's challenging, I know, I'm pretty bad at it myself. We'll port the game to Android as well, so stay tuned!

jiayjo 2017-12-07 08:53

greqt

jiayjo 2017-12-07 08:53

great

bitsandcrafts 2017-12-08 19:49

awesome. very fun gameplay. music and mood are great.

jk5000 2017-12-08 21:57

A very fun and a very well made game.

potti 2017-12-09 19:49

This looks and feels really polished. The art style is very nice. On thing though: While there's no big bird, you can easily deal with everything by just throwing popcorn out of one side and easily get to about 4000 points.

A very good game.

lereveur 2017-12-10 18:42

Easy to play, hard to master! I'm not really good, I hardly reached 488 points. Good arts too, well done!

paulhocker 2017-12-13 03:49

such an interesting idea - far to hard at first - it really needed a few levels to learn how to use the popcorn properly - still - good game

hisfantor 2017-12-16 14:06

very cool idea everything feels so friendly the music, the cute birds, but some seconds later they fuck you up

sommerlilie 2017-12-18 09:49

I love your art style. The game was fun!

2017-12-26 18:34

Simple but fun game!! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26D5qtoYgoQ

sirjupitron 2017-12-27 03:13

Mi estilo de juego favorito! zarpado arte y mood en general, me gusta como esta balanceado(jugue la version ld). Quiero jugar lo proximo que hagas, avisame!

racso 2017-12-27 22:22

La estética del juego es fantástica, tanto en arte como en audio. El detalle del brazo que se mueve hace que todo se vea muy pulido. Es un juego muy agradable, en general.

La jugabilidad en sí está bien para sesiones cortas. Creería que en sesiones largas se puede poner repetitivo. Me parece que el juego está equilibrado gracias a los pájaros grandes: sin ellos, sería fácil espantar a todos los pájaros pequeños y mantenerse equilibrado, pero una vez aparece un ave grande es necesario dejar algunas pequeñas para mantener el equilibrio. Mi única sugerencia quizá tiene que ver con la aleatoriedad de las aves: en varias partidas me pasó que aparecieron aves solamente por un lado del auto, y fue imposible equilibrarme en esos casos. Creería que garantizar que las aves aparezcan de manera más o menos uniforme (¡no simétrica, claro!) en ambos lados maximizaría la habilidad requerida y minimizaría la sensación de azar.

¡Muy buen trabajo!

nax-89 2017-12-28 12:27

Coincido con los usuarios de arriba, en estética general, lo hicieron MUUUUY bien, se siente genial, y es agradable a la vista. El gameplay no se queda atras, si bien los pajaros gordos te hacen renegar son la parte que te hace jugar con el equilibrio, logrando que no sea solo un jueguito "de disparos" Felicitaciones!