RISING BIRD by Matheus Bueno
Just like falling, flying is part of ours lives.
In this game you'll control a little bird who is to scared to fly, so instead, he'll jump branch to branch trying to get as far as possible from the ground.
Get ready to take flight with our little friend and maybe (who knows???) you'll find that falling is just a part of the process.
Update 04/04/2022
We finished our JAM version of the game. If you played the oldest version (03/04/2022) please try the newest one. Thanks!
HOW TO PLAY
All you have to do is make our little bird friend climb as high as you can go to, and avoid the fall.
For that, you'll be using the keys:
QWERTY Keyboard
A or left arrow <- to move the little bird to the LEFT
D or right arrow -> to move the little bird to the RIGHT
SPACEBAR, W or UP arrow to JUMP
AZERTY Keyboard
Q or left arrow <- to move the little bird to the LEFT
D or right arrow -> to move the little bird to the RIGHT
SPACEBAR, Z or UP Arrow to JUMP
BUT....
Pay close attention to the game rythm, because some things that are visible when it's sunny might not be there when it gets dark.
Seems like a lot, but it's actually not.
And if you forget, that's ok!
We have a simple tutorial always waiting for you on the main menu that you can visit any time you want.
Look for the sun in the upper corner of the screen, when the clouds pass by the sun, everything will be dark and when they leave, it will be bright again.
WHAT ABOUT THE TEAM???
Well my dear friend...
We're small group of weird people from Goiânia, Brasil.
We like animals, chocolates and long walks on the beach ~~hot park beach of course~~
And yes, we're pretty too :) ~~pretty bad~~
ASSETS
Most of the game was done by our team, art, programming, interface and game design. Font, SFX and music are from third parties.
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| Link | https://theus-bueno.itch.io/rising-bird |
| Link | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E8V8PsKPzbx9vx--eGsSbBHxNIIU-nGQ/view?usp=sharing |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/rising-bird |
Ratings
| Given | 6🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
The only issue I found with the game is that the controls are a bit unresponsive, slippery.
But other than that, congrats, it's a solid entry! :)
At first it was very hard to move just enough and not to run through the branches, but once I got used to it was pretty fun. I really liked the inverting branches idea, but there are a few things that would benefit from an improvement:
* Add a concrete marker in weather line, so the player could see exact moment of change and plan accordingly. I caught myself a few times expecting branch change, only to find out I jumped to early and fall through the branch appeared just a few miliseconds later.
* Even though the light branch pattern is exact opposite from dark branches, it would still be really helpful to show ghost branches. Maybe add an option to hide them completely as it is now.
* I found, that branch colliders in respect to the birdy was rather unforgiving. Not once I though I was going to make it to the branch only to fall through. Or trying to stand at the edge of the branch only to find myself falling down already with (almost) no way to get back. Could just missplaced colliders on branches and the birdie.
* This might be intended gameplay feel, but I found, that branches very slippery to walk on them.
* Having same lateral control in the air as on ground was rather interesting - with sensitive air controls it was very easy to miss the branch.
One thing that might have helped a bit with almost all noted "issues", would be to give a small amount of collectibles, that would, by using the collectible up, allow double jumping.
Overall I had fun playing, enough though the best I could muster was ~57 seconds :joy: