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Pigeon Post by Mantook

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made by Mantook for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Welcome to Pigeon Post!

Pigeon Post is a game about delivering the right mails to the right places by the use of, you guessed it, pigeons. Weigh the mails, put them in a tube, and give them to the right pigeon! If you can't handle all of the mails on the same day, don't worry, they carry over to the next day. However, don't forget to prioritize more important mails as you will be penalized accordingly!

You can either download the zip and run the .exe or you can go to the itch.io page linked in the links section to play it on your browser (make it fullscreen).

*NOTE: YOU CAN PUT MULTIPLE MAILS IN THE TUBE :smile: *

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots from the game! pigeonGame0.png pigeonGame1.png

Credits

Programmer: Mantook - Ege Dumanlı Artist: Aalula - Aalula Ştirbu

HTML5 Itch.Io https://mantook11.itch.io/pigeon-post
GitHub https://github.com/Mantook11/Pigeon-Delivery-Game
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/pigeon-post

Ratings

Overall 270th 3.871⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 370th 3.657⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 314th 3.671⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 17th 4.557⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 149th 4.357⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 202th 3.871⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Humor 513th 3.219⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 198th 4.015⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 52🗨️

Feedback

Sevla
01. May 2023 · 22:34 UTC
Hi! When i press space it doesn't load the next prompt :(
Edit: I just f5 it and worked! Very fun game, a little hard to understand at first but amazing idea!
The art is pretty good too!
The SFX was a bit too loud on the score screen. But very cool sounds and music :)
LDJam user 314423
01. May 2023 · 22:40 UTC
Excellent, excellent game. I didn't quite get that you could add multiple letters to the rolls the first time round (duh).
The ambience, graphics and sound are just spot on. The concept is very funny but also very challenging. (For me, it gets too unwieldy too quickly but possibly just me! Having to remember the destinations for the gradually introduced pigeons is a nice but difficult touch whilst busy wrangling piles of letters in priority order..).
tinykidtoo
01. May 2023 · 22:47 UTC
It took a while but I got the hang of it, altough I definately did get eaten many times. I could not make it past day three, there is too much mail. Its a good amount of overwhelming. I just got confused when there was new location and new birds. I didn't see a rubric for them. Over all I really love the art and the music and sound design. Its a very good papers please like game.
Donamougou
01. May 2023 · 22:57 UTC
WOW ! Music and art are fantastic ! Tutorial is perfect and allows to quickly enter in the game.

From a gameplay point of view, mails feel a bit overwhelming, and it feels unfair to have a negativ score at the end of the day when you were as quick as possible. I died on the first day twice :(

Overall, a really impressive entry !

You managed to give your game a strong 'Paper Please' vibe, congrats for that !

A small problem at launch due to the size of the game compared to the size of my screen.

PS : Just saw in the comment that you can roll several letter in the same tube. So I'd update my comment saying that it wasn't clear for me aswell
🎤 Mantook
02. May 2023 · 07:10 UTC
Thank you for your reviews guys! I agree it is hard, I need to balance it :grin:
Papabirb
02. May 2023 · 09:55 UTC
I really wish the letters came faster and that the tube drawer automatically reset. It takes so, so long to wait for the letters and get a new tube that I keep running out of time. It's very stressful.

Also, I wish there was a skip for the tutorial.

But overall? I love Papers Please and this game hits that same kind of niche for me. I may have quit after losing day 2 and having to go back to day 1, but it was still fun and has a lot of potential. I'm glad the birds are okay when you can't feed them... :slight_smile:
MintBreak
02. May 2023 · 09:56 UTC
This game has alot of potential. I at least got past the first day after reading the comments. It took me a while to figure that you had to stack the letters directly on top of each other to put them in the tube. Maybe there could be more leeway in that mechanic. Great art, mood, audio, and pretty fun to play.
mow
02. May 2023 · 10:00 UTC
I love the mood of this !
The tutorial is great and very quick to enjoy the game as fast as possible.
The game itself, I like the addition of new birds and new destinations and the whole process before sending really requires focus.

A bit of feedback in the scoring, like a little prompt with coins earned when the pidgeon flies away + a bit of balancing and pacing, tweaking the speed and the addition of new pidgeon/destination and I could easily imagine this game as a nice game to play on mobile for example

Reaaly good job !
LDJam user 262142
02. May 2023 · 10:04 UTC
gerb grew fat eating me multiple times... the only thing i didn't like was the new birds not having their destination listed because then you become the math lady meme. Other than that the pigeons are very cute and the music and foley was pleasant, stressful relaxing game <3
Auusi9
02. May 2023 · 10:07 UTC
I really liked the art style of the game, and the mail delivery aspect felt like a Papers Please kind of experience. The volume of mail quickly became overwhelming on day two, which added to the challenge. However, I did find myself struggling with managing the pigeon care aspect of the game - I couldn't quite figure out how to improve the pigeon's well-being.
RRADU
02. May 2023 · 10:24 UTC
Quite an incredible game! I didn't play too much of it because the handling of the tube and the mail was a little messy but over-all the entire game is wonderfully crafted, really good job!
Trakina
02. May 2023 · 10:27 UTC
Great game. Loved the art and atmosphere. We now need a pidgeon simulator to watch them handle the delveries themselves... ahahh
miraculousMelon
02. May 2023 · 10:40 UTC
I love this concept! We wanted to do something similar but couldn't work out how it would play so we chose not to but I think you did an excellent job and had good ideas for it. I struggled to work out why gerb kept dying to begin with (love the bird names btw), but I later realised I could put multiple letters into each tube. However, I didn't make it past day two because I found the letters build up a little too fast. Also having to close the tube drawer each time I want another tube is a little annoying. Otherwise, very cool concept, with lovely art and animations. Well done!
Allax
02. May 2023 · 14:14 UTC
Very cool concept. The art and music are well done, everything works as it should. I would love to play the full version of such an interesting game
Samantha Keane
02. May 2023 · 15:01 UTC
The itch.io version is sizing wrong so I couldn't see the top section aka the names of the top shelf pigeons so I had to guess a lot there.
What I did manage to play was fun and the tutorial really helped to know what was going on.
caisilus
02. May 2023 · 15:13 UTC
Nice game, but a bit too hard for me. Only once reached the third day
WeirdBitGames
02. May 2023 · 16:08 UTC
This game is so delightful and wholesome.. or so I thought! I tried a couple of times but there wasn't a day 2 and Herb always got hungry :(
I really like the conept here and it plays really well (aside from having to open and close the drawer each time I wanted a tube?). Maybe I did something wrong (I'm pretty sure I sent all of the letters to the right places each time) but I'd like to be able to play for more days! <3
waptaincaffles
02. May 2023 · 17:42 UTC
I think you did a really good job with this! The art style is so nice, the music is chill, I felt a little confused at first, but I got the hang of it :D
jkyd
02. May 2023 · 18:52 UTC
Love the pigeon theming, art-style, and audio! A tutorial skip and longer playtime/more mail to send would be fantastic, Herb is one hungry boy
Stefan Funke
03. May 2023 · 09:52 UTC
The pixel art is top-notch :thumbsup:

I didn't really like the gameplay loop though, sorry, maybe that's just my taste. It was too much to do under time pressure. Also the controls weren't smooth enough to allow a fast handling of the letters.

Also you used multiple different fonts, that didn't match the pixel art. This kinda dragged down the overall look a bit.


Good job on the game! Keep it up!
Mololo
03. May 2023 · 18:03 UTC
At first, I kept failing, but luckily I read the comments and found out that you could put more letters in a tube, which made much more sense.

Overall, the game is great, and I had fun playing it until I finished it. The artwork is amazing, and the music is great.

Good job!
LDJam user 285972
03. May 2023 · 19:59 UTC
That was a very interesting one! I really liked idea of managing letters, as well the art, music and sound effects! The game feels cool and complete, yet despite my best tries, I could not pass the very first day 3:
The time, it feels, runs way too quickly and even for the first day this game is very tough.
Paul Avallone
04. May 2023 · 05:52 UTC
This game is so well polished it's insane. The art and animation are wonderful. The music and sound effects set a great mood. I really had to strategize and double check the notes and the weight the letters to get everything right. You should definitely make this into a full game. Incredible job!
Sheol
05. May 2023 · 03:18 UTC
Like the others it took me a while before I realised you could put multiple letters into 1 tube haha. I think the difficulty curve is a little too high for me but overall I really enjoyed the visuals, audio and the gameplay loop! Such a lovely game, great work!!
Erlioniel
05. May 2023 · 09:47 UTC
Hey there!

First of all let me point that the art style & music is awesome and adds quite an atmosphere to a playthrough! I do like it for real. I survived all three days, but can't say that I was pretty successful with it.

I wish to have slightly less time pressure and more indicators on the pigeons, which appears on 2nd and 3rd days (what destination they are handling), coz I was best guessing :smile:

As well a minor, but I guess important if you would come with post-jam version, it might be worth to keep last-day mail in place where player left them. But I guess it was done like this due to time capacity.

But overall I did like the experience, it looks like a real bird mail.
Sam Gorman
07. May 2023 · 04:40 UTC
Really neat concept and a cool atmosphere. I agree with others that it has Papers Please vibes. I do wish the pigeons that appear on subsequent days had their destinations listed, and I found the mechanics for packing tubes a bit frustrating - they all have to be stacked, and have to be on the scale. I also think you should be able to get tubes more quickly. But those are just nitpicks, the game is great!
TheSmellofOxygen
12. May 2023 · 15:34 UTC
Great SFX/music for the mood. Loved the pixel art as well! I was so sad when Gerb starved to death! I had a flawless day 1 and then got wrecked day 2. Feels a bit like Papers please in the art/document handling department.
KreGames
15. May 2023 · 12:14 UTC
Really liked this game. Challanging and interesting. Little management. The destination code paper would be nice if update on the next level. At first I did not get, that not only a new code appeared, but a new pigeon as well.
zephyreds
15. May 2023 · 23:58 UTC
A fun game! Very stressful before I came to the comments here and realised I could stack letters in one tube. The art was really great and I loved the consistent style through the whole game.
Oroshibu
19. May 2023 · 16:11 UTC
I really like the art!!