Summoning Song by Paul Nadan

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made by Paul Nadan for Ludum Dare 55 (COMPO)

Play as a birdwatcher and summon a variety of rare birds by imitating their melodic calls. Chirp, hoot, and screech into your microphone to attract your new feathered friends. Can you summon all 9?

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Tips

  • The game is best played in a quiet environment with minimal background noise.
  • The birds respond to both the timing and pitch of your birdcalls, so make sure to mimic their sounds as closely as possible.
  • The microphone symbol will light up when it detects that you started making sound. If you are making a birdcall but the symbol is not lit up, be quiet for half a second and then try again.
  • If you get the message "Microphone not detected," make sure you have an audio input device connected and the game has permission to use your microphone.
  • You can change your audio input from the default by specifying a number in config.txt. The list of audio devices for your system will be recorded in device_list.txt each time the game is launched.

Credits

Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 55.

Code: Game was programmed in Python using the pygame-ce library and built with pyinstaller. Audio processing done with python-sounddevice and python-soundfile.

Graphics: Artwork was drawn in paint.net.

Audio: Music was composed with MuseScore 3. Sound effects were edited in Audacity.

Font: Cooper Black Regular

Ratings

Given 8🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

jk5000
15. Apr 2024 · 10:28 UTC
A super fun little game idea. I really had fun trying this game. Perhaps a bit difficult to hit the same notes, but it not a big issue. Overall a great compo game. Very well done.
Linus Lindberg
15. Apr 2024 · 14:48 UTC
Wow, this was so unique and interesting. I managed to summon all of the birds. definitely the most fun game I tried so far this time around. well done!
Jeremy Ryan
30. Apr 2024 · 03:18 UTC
This was a very entertaining and unique entry! There was an impressive number of birds and the "signal processing" side worked surprisingly well (although there were occasionally sounds I feel like I nailed but still got rejected).

I appreciate all the little details like the birds approaching from the trees, and the victory screen at the end.

I drew a doodle of the owl:

![guest_10.gif](///raw/aba/3/z/64e39.gif)
Zinkler
03. May 2024 · 17:29 UTC
Absolutely wonderful, we had a blast mimicking all the birds. The sounds are great and the idea is amazing!
monika
03. May 2024 · 22:01 UTC
Very important recording:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DcRaUocL8UJ4jFaf8fOV0GSceNegeyX-/view?usp=sharing

I think she actually got Eagle-2 for me.

I kind of wish there were a push-to-talk option because there was construction going on outside and it was often hard to get it to register me starting a call. I also would have loved more visual feedback on what I was doing wrong, even just as a user-accessible debug tool. Apart from that, really nice. Love the graphics and the gameplay.