ildfuglen 2021-10-04 18:58
Really love the art style for this game. I was able to complete all the puzzles, but I struggled for a long time on Level 5. Great work on this!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Wiggle Bird
By samdemaine
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 41 | 4.03 | 65 | |
| Fun | 46 | 4.00 | 66 | |
| Innovation | 94 | 3.86 | 65 | |
| Theme | 156 | 3.90 | 65 | |
| Graphics | 44 | 4.18 | 67 | |
| Audio | 137 | 3.53 | 56 | |
| Humor | 116 | 3.31 | 57 | |
| Mood | 118 | 3.62 | 60 |
Really love the art style for this game. I was able to complete all the puzzles, but I struggled for a long time on Level 5. Great work on this!
A solid entry! Follows the theme well, and has a good level of challenge with very cute graphics. That last long straight level was surprisinlgy difficult. It would be nice to be able to restart levels a bit faster, without the transition, but that's not really an issue. Nice job!
It's a good little game uvu, Could use a bit more levels though! I can already see all the dynamics in different types of level a game like this could have!
Your game also has really nice looking graphics, but it's missing sound sadly, I think it could have greatly benefitted from it.
Good job, and good luck on ratings!
Very challenging, very fun, kinda addicting like flappy bird :) I like how everything wiggles.
Sometimes I found the level reset time a bit high. - I wanted to immediately retry :D
loved the concept, although it was a bit too hard for me lol, i lack proper motor skills, however it was really fun and i loved the art
This game is really cute, and the wonky controls are a lot of fun. I like the animation style and the gameplay is clear and readable with the color contrast. I do wish the bird's hitbox was just a touch smaller, level 5 almost had me rage quit. Well done!
Very hard to learn and to master, but brings a lot of fun! I would like to have a death counter, that would be funny to see how the number is growing. What I dislike, is that I can start the movement while in the dead transition. Also I can give a rating in audio, which confuses me, because I had no audio.
surprisingly difficult but incredibly fun! the hand drawn art style is very cute, would make a great mobile game
Very cute game, well done! Last level was a bit difficult but the game feels very polished and the art is great!
Art style is on point and the gameplay is really really good. Level 6 is pretty hard though!
Clever, polished concept: good job! (I could hear the audio, dunno what other people are on about)
Amazing art style, very polished, (I could hear the audio clear?) 10/10 from me !
This game is honestly really cool. If this was actually made in only 6 hours that's amazing, it's much better then many games I've seen that have taken far longer to make
The fact its made in 6 hours is very impressive since its so polished. Well done.
That was very difficult but so fun to find which is the best technique to handle the movement ! I quit at level 6. Really cute game, it amaze me how you made in only 6 hours
Super cute, love the art style, really neat game loop. No real complaints, just a really nice polished package, it feels very finished for a LD game. I actually wanted more by the end!
Interesting idea and I love the simple but really solid art direction here. Well done!
Very simple idea executed perfectly. Frustrating and challenging and addicting. Great entry!
VOD Link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1167820246
I gave you my feedback during my stream earlier, but I wanted to say again how impressed I am at the work you got done in only 6 hours!
This game looks great, and idea is really fun. Well done.
Cool game, I am very bad at it hahaha, but great job!
For a 6 hours game this is a 5 stars all around, aggressively fun little game. My strategy was to only use one direction and tap very rapidly.
Lot of fun. As if someone had fed gin to Flappy Bird. A little harsh, when it immediately goes into a wall starting, but I guess thats part of it. I realised lots of little taps was the winning tactic. The art is fantastic.
Great polish; short and sweet! Definitely tough to wrap my brain around the controls
We have a winner here! I loved your game, it is so polished that I could see my own reflection in it. The graphics are cute and the music is very relaxing. This is a simple case of "easy to learn, hard to master" :smile:
Very challenging, very wiggly! Well put together game with some fancy level design. And so wiggly. So so very wiggly.
pretty drawing! nice game :)
Such a challenge. I like yours graphic style and smooth design)
That last level especially was challenging, but it was a lot of fun. I really like the controls.
Nice game! The whole design (game mechanic, art style, music, sound effect) are really well done.
Since it turns out I'm terrible at games like this, I was unable to make it through level 4 :( I hope I didn't miss too much.
Rage quit at lvl 5, but i relaly enjoyed the game. Everything is minimalistic but cute and well done. The gameplay could vary a little more, with birds that do larger arcs or something. Great job !
The art is simplistic and sweet, no problem with it. The gameplay is addicting and perfect for a mobile game. I managed to beat it but its really hard, i appreciate the challenge but it didn't discourage me from get very unreasonably angry at these levels. The controls are simple and easy to learn. The "water" (thing that makes you go faster, i assume its water.... because water makes you go faster obviously) was more of an asset to me, i felt more stable when going faster. Also i think that when you die the zooming/respawn effect should go faster. Overall an excellent game, good polish and addicting gameplay
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Love the art! The one thing I found is that in most levels (especially level 4 and 5) it was actually easier to just use one of the buttons on the keyboard (left for level 4, right for level 5) - I don't know if this was intentional but I found it slightly amusing.
I had a lot of fun with this! It's simple and straight to the point, challenging without being frustrating, and so cute! The extra bit of polish with scene transitions, animated tiles, and particles when you finish levels adds more charm to an already awesome game, well done!
this game has a great vibe! the animations and sounds were nice and comfy.
I spent, idk, 20~50% of my total time in this game just waiting for the restart animation to finish, and often I would accidentally press a button (while sitting around waiting) which would start the bird before I could see, causing it to hit a wall and sending me back to watch the restart animation again.
I'm not sure if I got the controls; I don't understand why I would ever want to use both buttons in a level (I only used one button)
the levels were a really nice length -- long enough to be challenging, but not long enough that I quit in frustration. thanks for the game!
This would make a really addictive mobile app!
I love everything about this. The graphics and the general atmosphere are really good. The gameplay is definitely innovative and fun. I wish there were more levels! Great job!
Interesting, but very difficult for me..
So Cute! I love the art aesthetic and the atmosphere! Congratulations!!
Cool concept and execution. The level design here was really cool as well. Last level did take a while but every level was still fun to play through. I also liked how you could essentially play the game with only one of the two direction keys. Gave it more depth that way as well. Great visuals and SFX. A nice entry overall
Super cute game. Simple and infuriating at the same time!
I gave up on level 4. Every single level felt like a random chance of whether I would beat it or not; in fact, in level 4 you can press the button that rotates the bird upwards, and it's random whether you can make a full circle to crash into yourself or whether you'll crash into the floor first.
As such, I'd say the hitboxes are unforgiving. I also found the controls themselves to be very unintuitive; so much so that after the first level I had to turn my keyboard around backwards to even have a chance at beating levels 2 and 3, which I barely managed.
Also, you can input things before the level has finished transitioning when it restarts / possibly when going to a new level? Didn't try that one. But I would keep dying before I had finished dying as the circle of black filled up the screen but the bird was still accepting inputs.
I'd recommend: - Reversing the input or allowing the player the option to do so (it is more intuitive for me to press right to go DOWN rather than UP, and vice versa) - Slower bird: he frequently collides with himself just as I'm pressing the button to turn the other way. - More forgiving hitboxes; maybe allow bird to overlap himself so that only the actual obstacles are obstacles? - Maybe smaller arcs or a wider area per level. - Prevent player input when restarting level/loading a new one. - Pause/quit menu; I had to alt-tab when I gave up as nothing happens on hitting ESC.
The graphics, mechanic idea, and audio are all perfect; this would be an amazing mobile game I think, but it's also pretty good on PC. It's just too hard for an average joe like me, which sucks because it looks so fun but my ability to play it is so bad. :( I want to say I had fun, because everything about this screams fun to me, but constantly dying before I can even move past the starting point, for every single level, with no improvement on my ability to control the bird as each win is basically luck + strategy, was more of a disheartening experience than anything. Still, it's really cool and I can't stop wondering how you made it!
Update! My bf played it and informed me you're supposed to HOLD THE KEYS!!!! I have now beat the game and it was really fun when I played it correctly! I take back what I said about inversing the controls; it was going the opposite way when I let go, so that's why I got confused.
I would recommend making it clearer that you're supposed to HOLD the keys, rather than JUST the picture of the left/right arrows.
Amazing game!! Glad I got to enjoy it this time!!! :0 :blue_heart:
@papabirb HOLD THE KEYS!!!! This egg nog thought tapping the keys and watching the bird go in the correct direction for a split second and then arcing the opposite way was a "Wind-up animation"
All in all, a fun and challenging game with wiggly but tight controls.
I loved it! It's a solid solid entry for the theme. It uses a familiar mechanic, but not something that I've seen used exactly like this before.
The only criticism I'd have is to slow down the game a little, at least in the beginning, and just to add more stuff :) I understand that this is a jam game, but I liked the speed-up area. I think more hazard areas that define some sort of mechanics changes. But overall a very cute little proof of concept, and something I'd totally play on my phone (as far as I can tell, you can limit the controls to just 1 button [tap] if you'd like, which would work super well on mobile)
I love the art style and gameplay! Challenging, but rewarding once mastered. Nicely Done!
Aaaaah wiggle bird you make me rage quit! :D It's a great game but I just couldn't take it anymore, it reminds me of playing flappy bird or something like that.
I found it very fun, good game and nice art, unfortunately it lacks the sound I think it would be a big improvement. Well done and keep going, I would love to continue watching your games in the future xD