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Post It! by LDJam user 336996

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made by LDJam user 336996 for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Description

Post It! is a game about a carrier pigeon delivering letters around the city. Featuring a full original soundtrack and a 2.5D mechanic which allows you to fly further or closer to steer between buildings. Battle the wind and find the mailbox in each level to deliver your letters!

Controls

  • Mouse click: Flap wings
  • Mouse aim: Steer
  • W : move closer
  • S : move away

Dev notes

This was our first game jam! We learned a great deal and had a blast making this little game. If we had more time we would have focused on making the layer switching clearer and more intuitive, as it can be a bit confusing right now and you can get stuck easily. We would have also added more fun obstacles and a bit longer levels so you can enjoy the soundtrack better!

Credits

Screenshots:

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Play in browser https://fakebutter.itch.io/post-it
Source code (Github) https://github.com/mllcraenen/Post-It-Ludum-Dare-53
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/post-it

Ratings

Given 21🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

Weston Goggins
01. May 2023 · 22:41 UTC
It was a bit tough to tell how close the buildings were to the screen, but the idea is really fun!
PartySquadMember
01. May 2023 · 22:41 UTC
The controls were difficult for me to get comfortable with. I also had an issue with the tan buildings blocking me from moving forward, this caused me to get stuck in level 2 between the clouds and buildings. The bird was soothing to watch and listen to and the music was great.
Ixil Miniussi
01. May 2023 · 22:43 UTC
I like the idea of flying between buildings in 2.5d it's pretty satisfying when you dodge a few of them in a row, but I have a hard time guessing which building is close and which is far, so I end up crashing into most of them. Maybe a way of seeing the bird when he is behind buildings also could've been nice?
Donamougou
01. May 2023 · 23:40 UTC
As @weston-goggins mentioned, it was a bit confusing to understand where we were compared to the building
I feel like the controls have a potential to be really cool but it was difficult to understand them and then control properly the bird during the span of this test (4 tries of the 1st lvl)
Nice entry though ! A lot of potential
Mallok Studio
04. May 2023 · 16:47 UTC
Nice game! Great game name (and I'm not saying that because we have the same game name haha) The controls are hard to master but once understood, the pigeon is fun to control. The idea of the carrier pigeon is cool but it would have been nice to see him carrying a letter. The music is very good, it might be nice to add some sounds for the flying pigeon.

Very cool game for a first game jam!
Mallok Studio
04. May 2023 · 16:47 UTC
Nice game! Great game name (and I'm not saying that because we have the same game name haha) The controls are hard to master but once understood, the pigeon is fun to control. The idea of the carrier pigeon is cool but it would have been nice to see him carrying a letter.

Very cool game for a first game jam!

PS: sorry my browser bugged and the message was sent twice
dUmMy432
05. May 2023 · 13:41 UTC
great game... simple idea.. huge effect... i really liked the music when it switched (i got caught off guard)
Kitira
05. May 2023 · 13:55 UTC
Nice game - even though I got stuck on the second level ^^ It was also a fun to fly very high and then nosedive back down ;D The level select is really nice.
Nazorus
06. May 2023 · 09:48 UTC
Solid gameplay, it feels good to flap and glide around in between buildings. The biggest problem for me was that it's difficult to tell how buildings are placed on the Z axis, I get that there's a color scheme but it's not very intuitive. Sometimes the background buildings would also display over obstacles which was weird. The music was a nice touch.

Btw, on the last level my bird was pointing downward and I wasn't able to fly properly, bot sure what was up with that.

In any case, congrats on making a game in 3 days!
MrEliptik
08. May 2023 · 09:28 UTC
The idea is cool but its hard to know where the building are so its more a guess than anything. Having another way of telling how far you should be would be nice! It fits the theme nicely, congrats for your entry :)
NaixGames
09. May 2023 · 11:16 UTC
The idea is really cool and feels really satisfying when it works. However, due to the graphics, it is hard to see the depth of the building, breaking a bit the dynamics. Maybe also making the Pidgeon colour change according to the depth?
LDJam user 282870
09. May 2023 · 12:35 UTC
Well, its not a bad game, but the controls were very clunky. It was also impossible to tell how close or how far away you were. You probably could have used controls like an Asteroids type game. I Godot 4 that kind of a controller is five lines of code.

But the graphics were good, the bird was great
frosty
10. May 2023 · 04:15 UTC
Congrats on finishing your first jam. =)

I had to restart a few times because I got stuck in the clouds or I got stuck behind a building, or I couldn't move left after passing the mailbox.

But by the 3rd level, I did like the feel of flapping every couple seconds to glide through the air, and hearing my pigeon sounds. I also like the end graphics of the delivered letter.
gamescodedogs
12. May 2023 · 06:01 UTC
Heh )) GFX style reminds me an old good flash games. Well done!
Wuppos
12. May 2023 · 19:15 UTC
I had a bit of trouble figuring out how the controls work. Sometimes the bird would suddenly fly in the other direction without a clear reason why (to me at least), and as others have mentioned, it was a bit tricky at first to know which buildings were on which layer. At some point I figured that the color of the building determined on which layer it was.

That said, I really liked what you were going for, and for a first jam this is really good! I liked the sound design and the art was pretty good! I also liked the creative main menu, and that the controls were shown within the game as well. Overall a very solid submission! Well done :)