Explore a piece of land and try to get close to its birds! A game inspired by my actual bird-fascinated cat, Pico!
This is an open-world puzzle-vania I made for @adamatomic's _update() jam! (check out Jackpot of Skulls and Frogwell too!) Adam provided us a cart with a pre-made _draw() function and a spritesheet tab, and that's basically all we could use to display things on screen, leaving us to steer the drawing logic from the _update() function! It was super fun to make something with it! Thanks Adam!!
In Bird Watcher, you gotta find ways to approach birds to get a good look at them. That might mean getting some obstacles out of the way, riding boats through water, and maybe getting the birds to show themselves or even hatch first!
It's a pretty big world out there, but your progress gets saved automatically!
Good luck and have fun, bird watchers~!
This was great! It was fun to figure out the rules as I went. It took me a while to finally complete so I'm grateful for the save feature. I also love how the bird flaps are just up sprites, very clever :)
Very nice cart. Especially liked the fast travel system that is also used as part of the puzzles.
Despite having played with Adam's _update() cart a bit, it took me 30mn to realize birds shouldn't have been able to have different colors... Except you only ever have one type per screen and don't use other yellow sprites, so you can change the display palette ;) , well played.
Encountered two bugs :
- in the stat screen, before I figured out how to get the pink birds, the grey tiles count was shown as 0, and the pink count was shown at 11 (probably the grey count).
- more problematic, in fast travel, if you can go up and right, but haven't unlocked the screen to the top right of it, pressing upright on the same frame (easy to do by mistake on mobile) gets you to the locked screen.
From there I freed a skull bird across the screen to the right, which messed up my save file.
Potential map problem :
in the top right corner of the map, there's an item to free skulls. You can use it to free the skull on the screen to the left of it and unlock a new screen, I think, but if like me you used it elsewhere, you can't bring another one for that skull because the area needs a boat to enter by fast travel, meaning the game can't be completed any more.
EDIT :
Replayed from start, focusing on skulls and on not soft-locking myself. I just have a few overlooked birds left to find.
Really liked it
@Verb, How did you get the anti skull item in the screenshot ? As far as I know, there's only 13 on the map... My guess is you finished the game with a skull that has an anti skull item in the same screen, took the item, exited and reentered the screen to temporarily duplicate the item, and went for the screenshot while carrying the duped item. If done intentionally, I tip off my hat to you and will share a confusing screenshot of my own :
@RealShadowCaster Indeed, that's what I did. It works only if the skull and the anti-skull item are on the same screen and are reachable without bringing in items or moving a screen over. The two places this works is map coords X:32,y:00, and X:80,y:32.
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