Skin Birds by foxxy
🔫 Turn Your Real Hands Into Virtual Guns 🔫
Pull finger-guns 👉 in front of your webcam, we'll track your hands and you'll fire bullets from your fingers.

Your index finger is the barrel and your thumb is the hammer. Bring your thumb down to fire and raise it reload. Advanced moves: dual-weld or bring in another player (one finger-gun each).

Use your virtual firearms to blast the Skin Birds out of the sky as fast as you can. Become the highest ranked finger-slinger in the world.
If you get lag when using Windows and Chrome, click the select box to increase performance, don't know why this works
Requirements:
- A desktop or laptop with a GPU
- Chrome (does not work in Firefox)
- Webcam
Credits
- Game/Engine Foxdog Studios (Lloyd Henning/Peter Sutton)
- Music/SFX Alex Marczak
Tech:
Uses Google's Media Pipe for hand tracking
| Link | https://ld52.fds.im/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/skin-birds |
Ratings
| Overall | 293th | 3.646⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 63th | 4.021⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 9th | 4.375⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 789th | 2.542⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 625th | 3⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 340th | 3.239⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 116th | 3.667⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 640th | 3.021⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
it is a really good exercice for the brain to do the movements in mirror. audio is fun too, i liked the voices.
just not a fan of killing poor and innocent birbs :angry: hahaha
Only minor thing is that I think it was a bit unclear whether or not you were reloaded (or maybe that's just it wasn't detecting my thumb trigger - unsure)
Nice Entry! :D
I wish I had a way to play it without lag, but the computer I've been using for all the other games doesn't have a webcam, so I think this is the best I can do (:upside_down:). Fantastic job, I thoroughly loved every bit of it! Congratulations! :beers:
I loved the music and audio, though. And all in all, with the later fast skin birds being randomly shot at because I couldn't aim properly with the lag, I'm pretty happy with rank B. I'm glad I'll always "B" appreciated, lol! I'd try for a better rank, but I think that's the best I'm getting with the lag.
Any game where I get to see my beautiful face and be part of the game gets a 5 stars in graphics from me :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: It really reminded me overall of the Nintendo 3DS evil face shooting AR game, but somehow it's more fun to do finger guns than it is to spin wildly around in a circle trying not to break furniture, lol. I'd replay this quite a bit if it weren't so laggy.
Edit: Despite the description, I decided to try it on Firefox. First on private then on regular. Doesn't work on private Firefox, but it does work on regular Firefox & has way better performance than on Chrome. I was able to get 3:star:S++ on a score that was something like 26.85 or 28.65 or something, forgot the exact number and there's no 'high scores' function that I could see. Had way more fun and tried to get a better score, but I couldn't do better than 3:star:S+ after that.
My main complaint after experiencing it without lag is that the practice balloons keep spawning right as I try to shoot "Start", and it's always directly in the pathway I'm trying to shoot Start from. Makes subsequent runs a lot harder when I can't even shoot "start" lol! It also takes a long time to recognize my hand in the beginning (or load the Google API, whichever is the case), which is a little annoying but not so bad.