The Catalog-gull by InMyArmsTonight

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made by InMyArmsTonight for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

largeIMG_8420.GIF Introduction : The Catalog-gull is a casual, joyful collection and exploration game.

In this game, you play as a harmless, adorable seagull flying around human territory—spying, exploring, and trying to survive in the human world! Fly through scenes, observe those strange humans, and use your natural bird eyes and instincts to get close to friendly folks and snag some food. But be careful—some humans change their attitudes, and a few even hate seagulls and will try to shoo you away! Scream, judge, and fill out your behavior journal to unlock new areas with more fries and fun!

Featuring:

A ton of weird human behaviors. A handful of friendly humans. A big beautiful map.

背景.jpg

Control:

Move: WASD

Interaction: E

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Ratings

Overall 536th 3.318⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 573th 3.044⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 327th 3.353⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Theme 401th 3.662⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 188th 4.118⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Humor 176th 3.545⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 435th 3.485⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 52🗳️ 48🗨️

Feedback

Aleksey Salion
Oct 06th · 20:02 UTC
At Full HD resolution parts of the game interface are obscured, so I couldn’t see the HP or the collection menu. But I like the mood and sounds)
LDJam user 280189
Oct 06th · 20:10 UTC
The art is really nice, well done on that.

However the gameplay and the objectives confused me a bit.

Pressing Escape opens up a weird menu

The seagull renders behind the people when it seems that it should be rendering in front (since it's flying above them)

Having to click on the top right to see the collection was a bit annoying when the rest of the game doesn't require the mouse, it would be nicer if there was a button for that.

Not sure it's necessary to have one button for interaction and one button for QTE, it seems like they could be the same button.

Also the tutorial in game says to press Shift to squawk but nothing happens when I press that.
peggy404
Oct 07th · 04:51 UTC
amazing theme! being a gull is so much fun, it'll be better if there are more various profiles to be collected
Andy Wang
Oct 07th · 04:57 UTC
Adorable little game, the art style is neat and gameplay is clean and straight forward. Great satisfier for troublemakers.
liumeishan
Oct 07th · 07:01 UTC
wow so cool!
swaiky
Oct 08th · 00:24 UTC
Such a cute art style — I love it! 💖
Smiling
Oct 08th · 03:16 UTC
What a lovely style of painting!
mokukeki
Oct 08th · 10:01 UTC
A cute little game with simple gameplay and a refreshing art style. Unfortunately, the content is a bit lacking.
mokukeki
Oct 08th · 10:01 UTC
A cute little game with simple gameplay and a refreshing art style. Unfortunately, the content is a bit lacking.
skale
Oct 09th · 10:37 UTC
Cute :smile_cat:
gwhyang
Oct 10th · 22:12 UTC
Nice art.
I gained the title of master of human
Nomelu
Oct 10th · 22:15 UTC
The art style looks awesome and it's an interesting idea for a game. This might have been due to something with the resolution playing on itchio web version, but I had a lot of issues with the UI. For example, the audio once I started the game was very loud compared to the menu music and I could not find a settings menu to turn it down. Pressing shift did nothing even though it was meant to be squak. I couldn't interact with some people, and when I did the UI was off to one side and sorta cut-off at the bottom which felt strange. Once I lost, I couldn't figure out how to restart either. It also felt a bit strange that the resolution of the characters was a lot higher compared to the background, so they felt a bit out of place.
prisma
Oct 11th · 05:00 UTC
Super cute!! Had some issues with resolution on Itch but the art style is very charming
Chaol
Oct 11th · 05:00 UTC
Super cute and charming! Unfortunately lack of UI made it really confusing what the objective was </3
Amanon
Oct 11th · 10:59 UTC
It’s such a cute and relaxing game — great job!
David Sheffield
Oct 11th · 10:59 UTC
Really impressive graphics in such a short span, game play simple but cute, would avoid old ladies and approach surfing dudes again
8TreasurePorridge
Oct 11th · 11:07 UTC
Very nice game and ad, but it feels a little bit hard at the beginning. (P.S.: some characters can't be read exactly)
Amiuke
Oct 11th · 13:08 UTC
Such a cute game! I love that naughty seagull. You might want to strengthen the positive feedback a bit — maybe adding a score or result screen would make it even better!
LDJam user 243193
Oct 11th · 14:30 UTC
Nice looking game! too bad there's no option to do full screen or resize the window.
Also I wish there would be mini game for all people each with his/her own bar setting.
LDJam user 0
Oct 11th · 17:39 UTC
Never thought being a seagull would be so much fun! The art is cute and the failure screen was pretty funny. I accidently went way down on the screen and it took me forever to get back to the game play screen but other then that great little game!
LDJam user 0
Oct 11th · 20:17 UTC
美术做的很好,互动也有音效,如果能加上UI提示会更好
ryusui
Oct 11th · 21:07 UTC
It's really cute; the map makes me think of a children's book, but I'm put out by the fact that the instructions and description seem to be for a game that's a fair bit more ambitious than what you published? Shift does nothing, and there are no extra areas to unlock - once you've added all eight people in the scene to your catalogue, you're done. It's not bad for what it is, but there's a stark contrast between the artwork and mechanics - I was shocked to see that "QTEs" are handled using what look like placeholder graphics!
jk5000
Oct 14th · 18:54 UTC
I like the visuals, music and the games mood. The gameplay feels a bit unfinished, but it's not super bad. Overall a fine little jam game.
MegL
Oct 16th · 00:38 UTC
I was really excited to try this game. I like the premise, but when I got in there I had some difficulty with the controls and visuals. I played on the itch.io page. Maybe the visual sort themselves out in the downloaded version?
Dengyixa
Oct 16th · 10:17 UTC
It's intersting! The art is so nice!!!
Anatol.w
Oct 21st · 17:16 UTC
nice pigeon game
ophiene
Oct 23rd · 19:01 UTC
Amazing work! It’s super interesting and has a vert unique way to paraphrase the theme, good job! And welcome to give our game a try! :)