Gotta Have It by zircon123

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made by zircon123 for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

You play a vain magpie with an insatiable hunger for trinkets...

Goal: Find objects of value around the level and carefully balance them on your nest. Tilt the bird with A and D. Flap with Space. Point towards an object and press left mouse button to grab

you cannot grab if you are too close to the object< Drop item carefully with left mouse Don't knock into things, or you'll drop the item! Dont drop items too far, they will break! Press g to end run early try and beat 50!

Shoutouts to Corrupted for working while sick

code and music: neonlemurs(zircon)

visuals: corruptedunicorn and foxmosis

Design and direction: all

Ratings

Overall 635th 3.143⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 582th 3.024⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 322th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 359th 3.714⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 510th 3.405⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 297th 3.238⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 591th 3.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

Jonction
Oct 07th · 16:37 UTC
Very nice implementation of the theme.
Mastoast
Oct 07th · 18:54 UTC
That's a nice take on the theme. The music was great, the effects too but i think some of the are very loud compared to the music, and it takes me 3 times to understand what the broken object sounds was about.

Other than that, i really likes the magpie visuals and animations. The flapping animation brings a strange feedback, because it flaps multiple times when you only press 1 time, it was a bit disturbing at first.
T C
Oct 07th · 19:04 UTC
Nice work! Always fun messing around with movement games. The music was excellent, even though it was a short-ish loop, had absolutely no problems listening to it for 15 minutes straight :laughing: . The flap animation was quite good, it worked really well. The additional weight for picking stuff up was, I feel, a bit too excessive. Especially for how many times you have to press space to gain elevation afterwards. Maybe only the highest value objects should have that much of an impact? Some variety would be nice, and I also feel maybe 10 minutes was a bit too long. But I had fun exploring the world you built and got a (very modest) 80 something score, with a few things dropped because I didn't quite understand the nests' hitboxes. Well done!
Nanaschi1984
Oct 08th · 18:57 UTC
I liked the visual style) Funny game
LDJam user 417758
Oct 09th · 02:23 UTC
The graphic design is great,but the ui design is not refined.
Imos
Oct 09th · 13:32 UTC
Nice game! The flapping animation is interesting, but watching things move around repeatedly is a bit annoying.
Ian - Marius Postica
Oct 09th · 14:33 UTC
A really good game, i spend so much time in it, i didn't even realize XDDD
FreedomV
Oct 09th · 22:58 UTC
The game was enjoyable to play, with the wing flapping animation being particularly well done. The main screen UI could have benefited from some work, possibly on the art, but the main issue was the spacing between the buttons; I couldn't locate the play button at first. Additionally, the weight increase when grabbing an item feels excessive. It was a great idea to add weight when holding an item, but the weight amount needs to be reduced so you don't have to press the space bar extremely fast to reach the nest.
Wallted
Oct 09th · 23:07 UTC
Very challenging game :D I managed to break half of my treasures during back trip and in the end I managed to throw off all those previously gathered from the nest with a flute :laughing: It was a bit slow for me, but this does not undermine the challenge you gave for us and the game direction. I love the ridiculous environment the magpie came to hunt in this game. Magpie vs drone? Cool entry!
dumchevdev
Oct 10th · 11:54 UTC
Good work! I like your visual style)
Torami
Oct 10th · 11:54 UTC
Hi, very nice effort and liked the game and a very nice interpretation of the style.

However as previously mentioned the start page is rather simple compared to the game you could have put in a screenshot of the game without the bird or something nothing extra just something at least.

Also please enable full-screen mode as it was quite hard to get it to snap in front of my taskbar haha.

In the instructions also you should note that you have to actually spam the spacebar not just hold it as I spent a good 3 minutes thinking the whole game was broken.

Otherwise very nice game enjoyed it very much and I did beat 50:))
Eugenik
Oct 10th · 15:01 UTC
Oh man this game looks and sounds awesome!.
jelch
Oct 12th · 05:38 UTC
I just flew in from Seattle and boy is my thumb tired!
Dengyixa
Oct 12th · 15:44 UTC
It's interesting and humorous and I think it's challenging to me.So I really feel happy when I collect my first item (a bottle)!
zdmajor7
Oct 12th · 17:43 UTC
I wish I was a better keyboard/mouse PC gamer because I think I would have fared better in this game if I had been :grin: . As it is, I found the controls frustrating and could not advance at all, but that is strictly a me problem. I still had fun looking around; the world is very nicely designed and I like the variety. Also, you won my heart automatically by counting a recorder as "treasure" :smiley: . Nice music, too---I'd prefer it a bit softer but again, that's me.
D3kryption
Oct 15th · 20:06 UTC
I love the music and visuals. I did end up playing it longer than I figured haha nice job! :D