Numbus Crossing by Mavvy
The Most Chaotic Street in Town Needs You.
Numbus is stepping up to the plate (or rather walking into the middle of the intersection) to prevent birds from crashing into each other and their eggs!
Direct the traffic by choosing a lane, all the other paths will stop birds from crossing, but hurry up! There's only so long to wait before the birds gotta fly.
Look out for the eggs! They just go (can't see, only move forward)!
Standard LD Addendums and Disclaimers:
As is the rules for Ludum Dare, my game's source is available as the zipped GameMaker project format on the itch page. There is very little in the way of comments and I would not suggest you borrow most of the practices you see.
I will also take a moment to note that no so-called "generative AI" or any AI tools for that matter, were used in the making of this game. Everything was handmade with my actual imagination at the helm and various tools I've acquired over the years.
The following tools were - Proton Compatibility Layer - GameMaker LTS - Beepbox - Reaper - Aseprite - Samson USB Microphone - A little help from my friends for testing and sanity checks
| Link | https://mavvymakesgames.itch.io/numbus-crossing |
| Link | https://mavvymakesgames.itch.io/numbus-crossing |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/numbus-crossing |
Ratings
| Overall | 35th | 3.977⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 51th | 3.75⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 113th | 3.5⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 105th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 57th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 4th | 4.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 36th | 3.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 52th | 3.864⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
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I did not understand the DAB function, is it just for funsies? Or do some birds react to it? I couldn't figure that out yet
The birds are so cute btw! :blue_heart:
The dab feature was one of many "just for fun" parts that ended up in the game. You can blame my testers (and me as well). :laughing:
Did have a few times on the later stages where eggs seemed to spawn very frequently early on and then none spawned for the second half of the stage - not sure if that was just bad luck or a bug.
Great work! Had a fun time!
really enjoyed thoroughly, my favorite was the pacing before sounds with the footseps sound effect, and end stage effect. really great feedback made it feel really polished and enjoyable.
look forward to seeing your other games!
Good job!
The one thing is the gameplay controls are a bit awkward, I feel like the pointing kind of works in the opposite way i would expect, or maybe there needs to be some more visual indicators on what arrows are allowing which streets to cross and which ones are blocked.
Great stuff ovearll!
it was a fun arcade game in a cute and tricky world !
im a mayor yeepeeee
But anyways, nice traffic control game. Turns out I had to wait for birds to reach intersection before I could give signal to them.
