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A jam submission

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Grow your bird army and take back the skies from the drones!
Submitted by SLIVAL (@SLIVAL6), Tadonia, Burdy, Pihoqub, Khyan, Okihand, gnomeSketches — 1 hour, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#5413.9193.919
Audio#6913.6633.663
Creativity#9284.0354.035
Artwork#18843.6403.640
Narrative#21822.7562.756

Ranked from 86 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You play as a pigeon that must fly in loop-the-loops around drones to make your bird flock attack them. We wanted to focus on drawing loops through movement and have that be a central game mechanic.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music Used:
Welcome to the Show
Surf Shimmy
Galactic Rap
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

SFX Used:
"Crunchy bite" by fvcalderan licensed CC0 1.0
https://opengameart.org/content/crunchy-bite

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Team Cluckers

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Submitted(+2)

in a world of clankers i strive to be a clucker! 

Submitted(+2)

Absolutely fantastic game! The movement feels incredibly smooth and responsive, and I love how the mountain in the background moves with the current height, such a nice touch! Well done :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

The cumbersome control scheme gives this game a deliciously chaotic flow, and the soundtrack goes hard! I also really love the game over screen, lol. It might become a tad tedious when you get good enough at the game to survive indefinitely, but that's just a pitfall of arcade games in general. Great job!

Submitted(+2)

I found the movement a little confusing, but eventually got the hang of it. I liked some of the polish effects like when starting, and thought the arcade-y feel was done very well. Good job!

Submitted(+2)

The transitioning animations from the start screen to the game were really nice. It was a bit hard to play at first since I kept hitting the drones, and it was tricky for me to rotate properly. But I got used to it and actually found it hard to die at one point! I thought it was pretty fun. I think it would be nice to have a score showing how many birds you collected. I think my highest was 25, but I’m not sure how many I collected overall. I also thought it was a really cool idea to use birds to create loops to destroy the enemies. Great work!:D

Submitted(+2)

Chaotic, difficult to survive, but extremely fun and satisfying

Submitted(+2)

Very cool. I used a similar mechanic, but mine is way less polished. Interesting to you lean into the looseness of the asteroid-like controls, whereas I tried to tame them a bit by changing the controls.

Submitted(+2)

Hey, we’ve got similar movement mechanics! I really like how you incorporated free fall and sharp turns — great execution. Had a lot of fun playing your game! The extra lives were a nice touch, too.

Submitted(+2)

The gameplay feeling is pretty good, once you get the hang of it, it becomes really satisfying to loop through the sky.

I also like how you progressively added complexity (like enemies that shoot laser beams, that prevent you to loop around them while the laser is active.

Maybe better visual clarity would help, as at the beginning I couldn't distinguish enemies from bonuses.

All in all, I had fun!

Submitted(+2)

Works really well as a concept! The acceleration system works well enough, but it felt odd not being able to turn while gliding. With such a large team it would have been nice to have some original music, but what you chose worked quite well.

Submitted(+2)

Funny and polished. I like that you jump right into the action. Great job.

Submitted(+2)

This is the best interpretation of the "draw a loop around things" theme I've seen. Good flight mechanics, pretty difficult but it's a great feeling to build up a big flock. The laser birds are great because you can go hunting them once you see which direction it's coming from (bug: often they are out of bounds so I can't get them).

100900

Submitted(+2)

Amazing! Great music choice, nice pixel art and I mostly love the camera! I like the mechanic where you have to first gather helpers in order to start attack and when you take damage you also lose some guys! Great work! :D

Submitted(+2)

Alright, this ones pretty great. Controls were a little rough at time but once you got it things come together nicely. Feels really good once you've got a long line of them and can just circle entire areas.

Submitted(+2)

This is a really good and polished game :D

Submitted(+2)

What an amazing game , the idea, the gameplay, the polish, everything is perfect making the game highly addictive

Submitted(+2)

Amazing what you made!

Submitted(+2)

This was super fun, from the music, to the art, to the gameplay itself. Really good job!

Submitted(+2)

Took a bit to get used to the controls but when I did it was great fun, love the silliness of destroying them with the flock of birds

(+2)

The game is great! The controls feel smooth, but it was a little hard for me to get used to the tiny arrow for the bird's direction. Other than that, it felt great

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