Great art and concept, but the gameplay and transitions are a little slow. Good work nonetheless!

Feedback time!

I found it difficult to spot coins before it was too late to grab them, I think it'd be easier if the camera looked ahead in the Y position.

Now this bit is pure personal preference: I don't like in-your-face pep talk (in the game over screen). I prefer more subtle story-telling that gives one focused message rather than a bunch of inspirational quotes being thrown at me. This is only a subjective opinion! But I feel frustrated by a slow pep talk screen that tells me how to feel instead of letting me restart and figure things out at my own pace, especially when I, personally, don't find the quotes to be motivating or inspiring. Adding to this frustration is the slow egg hatching animation that plays on every single death, followed by the slow walking pace, and then delay to actually control the character once they start falling. This is a game about restarting to learn from one's mistakes, and yet failing feels very punishing because of the slow wait every time, and grabbing coins doesn't feel rewarding. I only noticed on my second time winning that there was a set amount of coins to collect, perhaps the same UI that appears on the end screen could simply be a GUI during gameplay so collectors can know what to expect of the level instead of having to replay it to get all the coins?

The egg hatching animation is really well made too, so it's only a shame I feel frustrated seeing it by the slow respawn time. I think it could play in its entirety on the first try but either be shorter, faster, or skippable on the next attempts. I was left spamming buttons and not really knowing if that was doing anything to speed up the respawn because there was no feedback.

If the intent was to send a message about how to better approach failure, and about not giving up, this was unfortunately not achieved for me. Again though, what didn't work for me might for other players so if you want to look into this you should ask for more opinions!

Though I admit that this game has a very interesting meta narrative, since the intended message of the game matches your experience making it!

Back to Game Design: I find it odd to have the first coin be impossible to avoid. Firstly because if you always start with one coin you might as well start counting from one, so that first coin doesn't feel special, but also because coins are an already established video game mechanic that doesn't really need to be shown off or explained. If a player sees a coin, they know it's either a collectible, life, or money, and if the coin is huge and there are no other items, shops, or lives, they assume it to be a collectible. Also, players want to follow coins, so when the first coin showed me the way down, I assumed the goal of the game was to go down or land without dying– whereas the goal is to fly up! Now that last part might just be on me, but I didn't assume "learn to fly" to mean "learn to fly *up*"– it may very well be a skill issue on my part, but even then you should always design with stupid people in mind^^'

The art is pretty good! I especially like the main title. Though I find the blue of the sky (when the bird is hatching) to be a bit too bright and harsh on the eyes, I think it could be a bit less saturated. I've also got a little tech-art pet peeve; you got the parallax wrong, the farther away from the camera, the slower the layers are supposed to move (specifically talking about the darker trees). If you play the game while staring at the background, it feels a bit dizzying because the perspective doesn't match the eye's expectations. Also, be careful about your values on the itch.io thumbnail, the white of the title screen blends with the white of the clouds a bit, making it harder to read.

This game gets fun once you've played it a few times and understood how it works and where the goals are, so in that aspect it's not very beginner friendly. In my opinion, a game is most fun when the learning curve is smooth, and the player doesn't realise they're being taught anything when they're being explained the mechanics– tutorials through level design or game design rather than walls of text or input prompts, but this is very difficult to pull off, and requires a lot of game design practice and knowledge about other games, biases players might have, common visual language, etc... It doesn't come naturally, so I can't fault you for that! Although one very effective way to get better at it which I'll always recommend is external playtesting– asking someone who doesn't know anything about your game to playtest while recording or screensharing, and only giving them hints if they get stuck, so you can see in real time what's intuitive and what's not, as well as what players assume about your game and how they think.

By the way I won the game by spamming up– that doesn't feel intended, so if it's a glitch here you go!

Cute little game! The flying feels natural, smooth and fun. Also, birbs are cool

this game is so cool! your take on the theme is implemented nicely and i still cant believe that you two create all the asset in just 10 days! awesome!

More than anything else, I applaud the idea! Knowledge based games are very interesting, but also I think can be very hit or miss. This game's core idea is very good, but the execution unfortunately doesn't support that. The fact that each time you fail you have to wait roughly 10 seconds just watching the baby bird crawl off the platform makes retrying really boring. Originally, I didn't like the fact that there was no indication of whether you were doing something right or not, or how to fly, but I understand that that's the point, and so if the reset mechanic was more supportive of a game where you die repeatedly, i think I'd be more behind it. (1)

The art is pretty good! The canopy and bird are well made and the animations are clean. The sound design is good, and everything is well communicated through the art. Very impressive that it was all made yourselves! I do find it funny that you change from a grey large winged, fat bird, into a small blue thin winged bird. I think the art also still has a little room to grow as some of the grass and bird sprites were a little flat and didn't fit the design of the rest of the background. (4)

Game idea is very creative and fits the jam's theme very well! A truly novel game. The only thing I think is a little derivative is that the method of flight seems to be the same as the method in Super Mario World, which means it's probably one of the first things a player will try if they grew up playing that game. (4)

Beautiful environment, and i love the parallax effect. Really enjoyed it!

Only took me 4 tries to master flight... I'm what they call a prodigy... ANYWAYS, what an amazing first game! I enjoyed going back and trying to collect all the coins. I also love how it represents the theme. My only real complaint is that the hatching and crawling to the edge takes a little too long on subsequent retries. The first time is fine but maybe speed it up a little after a few fails? 

Slowly making you crawl faster with each hatch could also fit with the symbology of the rest of the game, where in life when you start a new project/hobby, you have the experiences of the past to inform the present and getting started comes a little easier than the very first time you tried to pick up something new.

The menu animation with the feather cursor is Cinema , the transition when going through the leaves , that part is beautiful. The whole coming out of the egg animation is cute and detailed. From an artstyle , its very nice

The controls are frustrating, but the art is amazing and the music is good.

I enjoyed the opening "scene", built a good amount of anticipation...to then plummet to the ground haha, but it rewards persistence which I liked.

I know it is  by design... but it took me more than what I like to admit to get the hang of the controls XD
the audio design was a blast, great shell braking sounds and I really enjoyed the whistle on flight.

loved the art and it fit well, struggled with the controls at first and would recommend a custom font

Great game ! The arts are beautifull and the music fit nicely ! 

Fit the theme really well, good job!

Cool game — it fits the theme perfectly.

Cute game! Took me 10+ attempts to understand the controls (I feel like that's a bit on me lol), but once you get it, flying with the bird feels really good. Also really loved the main menu animation. GG!

Nice take on the theme. Well implemented, especially for a first jam entry. Just a tip; invert the parallax, it's the far objects that should move the slowest.

lovely artwork on this
The controls feel abit jarring but overall this was a fun experience!

It was really satisfying to finally learn to fly! Great artwork as well good job on the game

the art/animation is so pretty, i almost gave up bc i thought i just couldn't understand the controls but after one more try i learned to fly and wow, great game. 7 tries :)