Borjomi - the Broken Bat by mackain

📖 LORE 📖
Borjomi the Bat got hit in the head by a wind turbine (thanks, Obama) and now his echo-location only works when he flaps his wings! Help him navigate his way through life with this unfortunate condition.
🎮 HOW TO PLAY 🎮
SPACEBAR or CLICK or TAP SCREEN to flap Borjomi's wings, you know how to play this game... but perhaps not with faulty sonar!
🍻 CREDITS 🍻
A game by Jonas & Markus & Joachim
⚠️ PHOTOSENSITIVE WARNING ⚠️
This game contains flashing lights, that may be triggering for people with photosensitive epilepsy
| GitHub | https://mackain.github.io/ldjam59/ |
| NEWGROUNDS | https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1028841 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/borjomi-the-broken-bat |
Ratings
| Overall | 762th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 667th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 663th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 350th | 3.886⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 711th | 2.909⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 493th | 2.977⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 167th | 3.595⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 761th | 2.875⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
The main mechanic is visually interesting. I did find myself playing around with the doppler effects a bit. That said, I’m not sure it really adds much to the core Flappy Bird style gameplay. I could see mainly because the game forces you to jump, not because I was choosing to use the mechanic, so the visibility ended up feeling more like a side effect than something I was actively using.
For this game though, I felt like it was more of an endurance test for my wrist to keep clicking. The jump was maybe a little too small. It signaled so often that the limited vision didn't have much of an impact besides giving me a bit of a headache haha. I still enjoyed it!! But I didn't feel that drive to play another round.


I'm proud of my accomplishment! Funny idea. :)