Pigeon Post Office by Pigeonescu

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made by Pigeonescu for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Collect and deliver as many letters as you can. Pigeon on!

You're playing as a Pigeon, collecting the letters from the villagers for the Pigeon Post Office. Lately a new competition appeared, trying to steal your customers. Collect as many letters and defeat the Magpies from stealing your job by the end of the day.

Pigeons are awesome.

How to Play:

Your Goal is to collect the letters that are dropped at the mail boxes.

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You will encounter different obstacles.

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Use your pigeon sense to find your way towards the letters (don't forget to drop them at the P.P.O.!)

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This is your Pigeon Post Office (P.P.O) and where you will bring all your letters.

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Have fun!!!

Ratings

Overall 373th 3.537⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 491th 3.204⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 404th 3.231⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 203th 3.981⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 124th 4.296⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 369th 3.222⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 287th 3.259⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 280th 3.741⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 33🗨️

Feedback

Tommeh
Oct 06th · 22:29 UTC
The art was absolutely delightful! I really enjoyed to mood of this one. Probably the best looking game thus far! Good job!
Luderik
Oct 06th · 23:01 UTC
Pigeons are cool!
Soleil
Oct 07th · 09:59 UTC
Pigeons are cool! The asset are really cute
Damyyr
Oct 07th · 15:16 UTC
I _had_ to come here to see another game with pigeons, I'm starting to believe that they really are sort sort of underestimated superstar.

Found the game quite cute, I liked the art very much !

Is there an area at the top of the map that opens at some point ? Kept being intrigued by the 2 guarding cats that I could not get through.

Letters lost in un-flyable area was a bit frustrating, but that's because I'm bad at pigeon
🎤 Pigeonescu
Oct 07th · 15:36 UTC
Hi @damyyr , the map is much bigger then what you can see and play currently. There are blocking cats also at the left of the map.

We got hit by scope creep pretty hard and had to rush to make something playable for the Jam.

Originally we planned to have quests to deliver letters between npcs with some puzzle solving to find your way around the map and unlock a suburban area and a bigger city area all with their own obstacles and puzzles.

The current game was supposed to be just a mini game or a triggered event, and the current starting point was supposed to be more of a tutorial area for the final game.

We are thinking to continue working on the game to finalize the original idea.
🎤 Pigeonescu
Oct 07th · 15:40 UTC
Also the art is made by @pigeonic. I worked on the code and made the music. We tried to make everything from scratch just for the Jam.
Damyyr
Oct 07th · 16:51 UTC
> We got hit by scope creep pretty hard

@pigeonescu Yeah I feel you so much.

Thanks for the details, don't hesitate to tag me if you post more funny pics of your pigeon haha
LDJam user 395647
Oct 07th · 18:01 UTC
The art is so beautiful. And the whole game is so pretty and charming - I would love to play it more if you continue development! I think some sound effects would be cool, imagine little pigeon coos when you pick up letters:) The music was pretty good as well :bird:
Kate666
Oct 07th · 21:50 UTC
A simple and pleasant game)
I really liked the magpies — they're so fast and graceful!!!
But I often got stuck when I hit the edge of the road, which really slowed things down and was a bit frustrating. The game also feels a bit empty because the grass doesn't have even a slight texture.
stefaink
Oct 08th · 19:01 UTC
hype
leo____miracles
Oct 08th · 19:02 UTC
It’s so cool!
Kalbshack
Oct 08th · 19:04 UTC
Pigeons are from the government :wink: Funny game with cute graphics. Good job.
Archaeognathus
Oct 08th · 19:29 UTC
I have a complicated relationship with pigeons, but this is with woodpigeons, and yours is very cute!
Paradoxically, the longest time I ever spent on a piece of pixel art was also a woodpigeon (does not mean it's good)... but I have to admit that was as a pizza ingredient for my very first LD game xD

![pidgeon_bake.png](///raw/356/25/z/6efdb.png)
Wuppos
Oct 08th · 19:56 UTC
I really liked your 'post by pigeon' take on mail delivery! That is very different from our game, even though we both made a game about collecting mail :D I also thought the art was super cool and vibrant. The village felt fun to explore just to see what art I could find. The gameplay itself was also fun, especially finding these mailboxes with 4 or more letters felt very exciting. I just thought that it went on for a bit too long. After a couple minutes I had kind of seen everything there was to see (I felt), and then I still had 7 minutes to go. In that case I think it would have been better to stop earlier and leave me wanting more :) Really well done though!
lespaul59
Oct 08th · 19:58 UTC
very nice game. the graphics are awesome and the overall vibe is very cozy. cool entry :)
Pigeonic
Oct 08th · 20:25 UTC
Hiiiii, thanks a lot for all the feedback!!!
We want to keep working on this game and every help counts, well post updates here and on itch in the near future.

@emilija-marija Will make our pigeon coo at the microphone for the future updates!!! :))

@kate666 Yeah, I'm not very used to making pixel art yet and wasted so much time on the houses that I had to cut corners with other assets :)), will polish up the art more in the near future!

@archaeognathus THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL PIGEON!!!! Never had pigeon pizza, will ask our pigeon if she's interested.

@wuppos Thanks for letting us know!!! The letter spawn rate was randomized and because of that we overestimated the average time it would take. :))
Matthieu Riboulot
Oct 08th · 21:25 UTC
Very nice art style, the pigeon should have been a little faster for comfort
kaomii
Oct 09th · 02:11 UTC
SUCH CUTE PIGEON !! The art is so pretty and very enjoyable to look at while flying around and hunting down mail ^^
For some reason the first time I played the arrows and mail weren't showing up so I was very confused for a solid 3 minutes trying to figure out what I was supposed to do lol.
Though everything worked fine once I reloaded it and it was lots of fun to play! Great job guys!
LDJam user 280624
Oct 09th · 11:00 UTC
Such a beautiful game. I'm in love with the pigeon's design: all those little details like the little hat and the mail bag
Ciphereo
Oct 09th · 12:56 UTC
The pigeons are so cool! I really like them!
NonDev
Oct 09th · 15:28 UTC
I was kinda surprised to find out I had to fly along the roads instead of over everything. Maybe that's some sort of anti-competitive legislation against the PPO! But cute pigeon business!
Archaeognathus
Oct 09th · 21:00 UTC
@pigeonic NOOOOOO, don't ask her! It was a game about weird pizza toppings, and the pidgeons were a topping option. I would feel bad if she knew!