{"author_link":"\/users\/paul-nadan","author_name":"Paul Nadan","author_uid":1025572,"comments":[{"id":1033574,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1713176896,"text":"A super fun little game idea. I really had fun trying this game. Perhaps a bit difficult to hit the same notes, but it not a big issue. Overall a great compo game. Very well done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1034400,"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"linus-lindberg","epoch":1713192506,"text":"Wow, this was so unique and interesting. I managed to summon all of the birds. definitely the most fun game I tried so far this time around. well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076368,"author_name":"Jeremy Ryan","author_uid":"jeremy-ryan","epoch":1714447127,"text":"This was a very entertaining and unique entry! There was an impressive number of birds and the \"signal processing\" side worked surprisingly well (although there were occasionally sounds I feel like I nailed but still got rejected).\n\nI appreciate all the little details like the birds approaching from the trees, and the victory screen at the end.\n\nI drew a doodle of the owl:\n\n![guest_10.gif](\/\/\/raw\/aba\/3\/z\/64e39.gif)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078548,"author_name":"Zinkler","author_uid":"zinkler","epoch":1714757370,"text":"Absolutely wonderful, we had a blast mimicking all the birds. The sounds are great and the idea is amazing!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078827,"author_name":"monika","author_uid":"monika","epoch":1714773691,"text":"Very important recording: \n\nhttps:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DcRaUocL8UJ4jFaf8fOV0GSceNegeyX-\/view?usp=sharing\n\nI think she actually got Eagle-2 for me.\n\nI kind of wish there were a push-to-talk option because there was construction going on outside and it was often hard to get it to register me starting a call. I also would have loved more visual feedback on what I was doing wrong, even just as a user-accessible debug tool. Apart from that, really nice. 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Chirp, hoot, and screech into your microphone to attract your new feathered friends. Can you summon all 9?\n\n![SummoningSong.gif](\/\/\/raw\/4e3\/6\/z\/618e8.gif)\n\n## Tips\n- The game is best played in a quiet environment with minimal background noise.\n- The birds respond to both the timing and pitch of your birdcalls, so make sure to mimic their sounds as closely as possible.\n- The microphone symbol will light up when it detects that you started making sound. If you are making a birdcall but the symbol is not lit up, be quiet for half a second and then try again.\n- If you get the message \"Microphone not detected,\" make sure you have an audio input device connected and the game has permission to use your microphone.\n- You can change your audio input from the default by specifying a number in config.txt. 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