Space Birds by Jakub Gemrot

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made by Jakub Gemrot for LD 40 (JAM)

SpaceBirds

My goal was to play around with Godot engine, I've used version 2.1.4. Never used it before or read any documentation about it upfront.

Unfortunately, I had much less time than originally planned; created in aprox. 9 hours.

In the end, I've struck some inefficiency in Godot that sometimes make the game tearing a lot; could not get around it (everything is pooled, no GC). Partially, I think the mouse mode is to blame... just a gist.

UPDATE: I've fixed the tearing, of course, Godot is not to blame ... or only partially ... GDScript is not as fast as I thought ... about 40k simple math operations is too much.

Try to be calm and contemplative, almost meditation-like, when you play the game.

I hope you enjoy it.

Oh, if your mouse cursor won't disappear, just left-mouse-click once ... some Godot quirk :(

Run

Windows - Space Birds

Windows build only (tested on Windows 10 only); download the rar from the link above, unpack and run SpaceBirds.exe from the folder SpaceBirds-Win64.

Do not forget to post your score in review if you are leaving one! Thanks!

Sources

Github

Credits

Godot Engine Team

Google Roboto Fonts

Nico Maxmilian for the music track Distance Between Two Worlds

Thank you!

Ratings

Given 5🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

kerzak
05. Dec 2017 · 00:06 UTC
Well I think that the idea is really interesting and the game itself is funny and patience-training. The most of the cons are mentioned in the description. The only advice except for technical issues is that the player should have imho better feeling whether he is actually doing well or not.
Split82
05. Dec 2017 · 11:02 UTC
3596! :) This is really awesome. With better graphics this would be very relaxing experience. Great job.
Abuki
05. Dec 2017 · 20:00 UTC
Agree with @split82, nice idea! Relaxing. Although, sometimes, when I lost my patience and started moving quickly, it very intense :)
KallThar
05. Dec 2017 · 22:13 UTC
I love the concept! Goes very well with the theme. Very relaxing. I was missing few details like scoreboard, etc. But that doesn't take the fun out of the game.
maoap
05. Dec 2017 · 22:39 UTC
My record is 8265, what is yours @jakub-gemrot? Although the game looks simple, I enjoyed it and played it several times. It is quite relaxing and satisfying playing this game :)
Pavel Smejkal
05. Dec 2017 · 22:42 UTC
I really like the idea.
The music fits it pretty well and the graphics, even if simple, are actually not disturbing the overall theme and mood.
I had a relaxing experience :)
X Budsterized X
06. Dec 2017 · 00:10 UTC
Well, I am going to join the score train - 5091.5.
You made it so much easier with the flock system and it became much more relaxing than before when it made me rage quit playing the game.

It is very impressive that you have managed to learn how to use an engine that's unknown to you and release a game using it within 3 days that's actually very playable!

I know I have said it before but as much as the graphics are simplistic they look so polished and fit the space environment. I like it a lot :)
Dlaha
06. Dec 2017 · 11:01 UTC
Pleasant experience. Really nice use of theme. Only music feels to intense for such a relaxing game.
BoltKey
08. Dec 2017 · 17:58 UTC
I cannot run the game, 7-zip says "[File] cannot be opened as an archive"