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Eat preys, love by anoushcat

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made by anoushcat for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Summary

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Welcome to our peregrine falcon simulator: hunt preys, incubate your eggs and protect them from owls! You can play as a cute falcon couple or as a single falcon mom!

Controls

  • Controllers (recommended): Joystick to move + A Button to interact
  • Player 1 keyboard: WASD to move + Space to interact
  • Player 2 keyboard: Arrow keys to move + Right Ctrl to interact

Rules

:egg: Incubate your eggs so they can hatch!

:owl: An owl can come to your nest and try to steal your eggs... Scare them off to protect the eggs! Your eggs become red when there is an owl alert!

:bird: Kill a pigeon by charging into it when it flies! Then, you can drop it on a platform and eat it yourself, or place it near your significant falcon.

:forkknifeplate: Keep an eye on your stamina bar! Stamina depletes when you attack and when you incubate. It increases when you eat!

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Falcon facts

The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird (and animal!) of the world. It can fly up to 320 km/h when it dives to catch a prey! Nesting usually starts in April and incubation last for a month or so until the eggs hatch. Falcons nest in couple, one incubating eggs/taking care of the baby falcons, while the other go hunting for preys to provide for the family. They usually switch position really often!

Inspiration from this game (and falcon sounds) came from a livecam streaming real falcons nesting, that you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQeWK5ma2-k

Credits

Aleggs Massé and Anna Thibert

Youtube https://massealex.itch.io/ludum-dare-46
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eat-preys-love

Ratings

Overall 22th 4.34⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 265th 3.86⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 148th 3.98⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 332th 4.1⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 329th 4.26⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 111th 4.2⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

Myrga
21. Apr 2020 · 02:29 UTC
I'm in love with this game ! The gameplay, the design and the music are on top <3
I want to be able to raise these cute little falcons :3
SplitPainter
21. Apr 2020 · 15:26 UTC
I think this is my favorite game in the jam so far. Fits the theme perfectly, nice mood and atmosphere, calming and with a good amount of gameplay, even if a bit grindy, it is actually very playable and fun. 5-stars.
SplitPainter
21. Apr 2020 · 15:26 UTC
By the way, you should add some screenshots to the page :)
LairinLair
21. Apr 2020 · 15:38 UTC
Loved the art and the music. Feels like im in some kind of Pixar movie. So good that has single and multiplayer mode. One suggestion i would give is to make the movement more smooth is pretty crazy and it doesnt not blend well with the rest, but guess it lacked time, haha. But Wooah, this is one to keep. VERY good game. Congrats!
cephalo
21. Apr 2020 · 15:40 UTC
This game played beautifully, looked beautiful, and matched the theme so well. Great work.
Raivk
21. Apr 2020 · 15:54 UTC
Really well made game. Cool graphics, cool gameplay. Great entry, congratulations !
zozol
21. Apr 2020 · 15:55 UTC
It would be nice to add some sort of indicator showing you in which direction your nest is as I managed to get lost on my first hunt but apart from that everything seems to be working pefectly and I adore the overall mood of this game, great job!
DiW527
21. Apr 2020 · 16:26 UTC
Easy to control, cute game.
I enjoyed it
Trexxak
21. Apr 2020 · 16:26 UTC
Beautiful game. I actually had a tear in my eye when the babies hatched :')

The concept feels so 'natural' yet unexplored. Loved every piece of it. I played it alone in Multiplayer, which still felt immensely appropriate.
Anaferus
21. Apr 2020 · 18:24 UTC
Cracks in the eggs made me go back to the nest, but then I realized that it was nice and I had to act. Very nice game.
Maryush28
21. Apr 2020 · 18:49 UTC
Really good game. One of the best i've played today. Good music choice, really beautiful low poly models. Ability to stand on ledges is also good feature. Smooth speed increase when flying downwards, smooth turns, good animations. Working UI/Menu. I cannot find negative aspects. 5/5, guys!
Le Slo
21. Apr 2020 · 19:13 UTC
Very cute game, the game on controller is nice (the falcon movement could be smoother) and I really enjoyed gaining velocity when flying, which is my opinion, with hunting, is the best part, but in a way there is not much encouragement to explore the city, since you can always find pigeons very near your nest and the pressure of owls flies over when trying to go further. Apart from that relaxing vibes and polished camera and graphics. Great job.
Dane Tesla
21. Apr 2020 · 20:33 UTC
It's so cute and I love it! one of my faves so far. I like the music, graphic design and simple gameplay. good job!
Jin9310
22. Apr 2020 · 09:03 UTC
Thank you for calm and nice experience. The art is great and overall mood as well. Really nice entry. Thank you!
YouBeStrong
22. Apr 2020 · 18:06 UTC
Very cute game Alex! Diving with the peregrine falcon on unsuspecting pigeons was very satisfying. I didn't find the snail either. :(

Great work to both of you! Thank you very much for the extra falcts!
Baturinsky
22. Apr 2020 · 19:13 UTC
Very atmospheric, though controls allowing only in sharp 90% turns annoys me a bit.
Ulisses
26. Apr 2020 · 23:04 UTC
Like I said in post, I will keep this game with me, congrats, nice graphics, sound and controls.
Mark A Pressler
04. May 2020 · 01:01 UTC
There are many extremely satisfying things about this game. My favorites are the fantastically calming music and the screen shake during pigeon impact. My only tiny nitpick is that I wish the incubation sound was a bit less squeaky and a bit more....nestling into something-y. Also the owls could be a slightly lighter color maybe? To look more like a barn owl and look more significantly different than the falcons. Overall just a wonderful game though, great job on the art and sound especially but everything is great.
Mark Keeble
10. May 2020 · 03:03 UTC
This is a really awesome game. Not even gonna call it a submission because it feels so polished and complete that it may as well be a standalone, well, game! The idea was cool, the execution was excellent, and overall I think this is definetely one of my favourite games in the jam.

The only thing I have a problem with is the sound of incubating, which to be honest was the reason I closed the game. It's really nails-on-chalkboard esque and actually kind of hurt to listen to.

Regardless well done on the submission because 99.999% of the game was fantastic!