Currency Collection Corvid by Elanor

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made by Elanor for Ludum Dare 58 (COMPO)

A silly little game in which you play as a silly little corvid and collect silly little coins.

Made on and for the PICO-8 fantasy console.

Ratings

Overall 174th 3⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 166th 2.905⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 203th 2.405⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 112th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 119th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 77th 3.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 83th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

Sthor726
Oct 05th · 22:23 UTC
Nice work! Definitely nails the NES aesthetic
John Gabriel
Oct 06th · 00:02 UTC
Simple, but still neat! I got a good chuckle out of the idea of a crow being forced to use the zebra crossing.
kaba
Oct 06th · 04:49 UTC
Nice! I also laughed at the zebra crossing and I know I will have the catchy little tune stuck in my head for a good while after this. :sweat_smile:
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 15:39 UTC
@john-gabriel It is indeed quite simple (it's my first original game to be fair).

I'm glad you found it amusing :3
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 15:40 UTC
@kaba I'm glad you liked the music! As a musician, I knew I needed to play to my skills, so I pulled out the ol' blues scale :p
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 15:41 UTC
@sthor726 I'm glad you liked it! I put in a good bit of effort on the art, and I'm actually quite proud of it :]
Nicso
Oct 07th · 16:41 UTC
that’s a nice start, could be a neat simple game :thumbsup:
LDJam user 280624
Oct 07th · 16:46 UTC
Silly little like for silly little game =)
plastus
Oct 07th · 16:46 UTC
Short and sweet game!

My favourite part is that the crow makes sounds when you press X :3

Also that the crow knows how to properly use sidewalks xD
Revetoon
Oct 07th · 16:49 UTC
I like the bold color palette. A bit more gameplay mecanisms and you'll have a cool game !
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 16:59 UTC
@torte478 And a silly little reply to a silly little comment :3
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 16:59 UTC
@plastus That's exactly what my friend said about the squawk button lol

I'm glad you enjoyed it :]
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 17:02 UTC
@revetoon Thanks! I had actually planned some additional features—namely making the enemies chase you if you get to close—but ultimately didn't have enough time to complete them (they're actually still in the source code, and that's actually why I added the squawk).

Who knows? Maybe I'll keep working on it...
Antti Haavikko
Oct 07th · 17:25 UTC
Love me some PICO games. Short and sweet! Not much to say, so I drew a picture instead...

![Untitled_Artwork 9.png](///raw/1e4/3/z/6eb3f.png)

Good job! 👍
🎤 Elanor
Oct 07th · 18:15 UTC
@antti-haavikko Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it.

Nice artwork too :p
Khamekaze
Oct 09th · 14:44 UTC
I like that silly little corvid and its silly little coin collecting 😁 Press X to caw and the strict adherence to pedestrian regulations for crosswalks made me chuckle
Tesseus
Oct 09th · 16:47 UTC
Simple and sweet!
Eugenik
Oct 09th · 21:04 UTC
This was really atmospheric and well put together
🎤 Elanor
Oct 10th · 00:57 UTC
@khamekaze I'm glad you enjoyed the little details :]
🎤 Elanor
Oct 10th · 00:58 UTC
@eugenik Thanks! I'm glad you liked it :]
nekowei
Oct 10th · 02:00 UTC
This game is simple but very fun. The arts are relly cute. Good job!
🎤 Elanor
Oct 10th · 03:31 UTC
@nekowei Thanks so much!
PieRo_PBeS_studio
Oct 11th · 21:27 UTC
What's this crow going to do with all these coins? I think the different scenes it goes through are cool. Go pico 8!
LDJam user 243193
Oct 14th · 11:58 UTC
Nice short coin collection game! I'm glad the humans ignored me otherwise it could be disastrous.
jk5000
Oct 16th · 15:04 UTC
Lazy enemies, but else a simple and pretty fun little game.
bentglasstube
Oct 16th · 17:49 UTC
Love seeing pico 8 games in these. Great work with the graphics and the various level scenes. I enjoyed the music as well. It was sometimes hard to get into tight spaces (especially the top right area of the first level) but otherwise the game worked well. Nice work.
🎤 Elanor
Oct 17th · 14:24 UTC
@piero-pbes-studio Who knows?

Glad you liked it :]
🎤 Elanor
Oct 17th · 14:26 UTC
@jk5000 They were going to chase the crow, but it was too late to do any choreography for it :p
🎤 Elanor
Oct 17th · 14:27 UTC
@bloodbane They don't get paid enough to chase birds around :p

Glad you liked it!
🎤 Elanor
Oct 17th · 14:29 UTC
@bentglasstube Thanks for the feedback!

I agree that it's pretty tough to squeeze through. If I were to come back to it, I'd add some corner correction to fix that.

Glad you liked it :3
sslees
Oct 20th · 19:24 UTC
This was a nice, simple game with fun little animations. Great job doing audio for a first time game too! Most people skip that early on. I learned what "corvid" means, and now I feel like I know what the world looks like to a crow. Wish I had gold coins I could leave out for them.
marudziik
Oct 21st · 09:05 UTC
Given the timeline of the compo, this is a pretty good entry. I like the gameplay and I can see where you were going with the enemies. Yeah, I'm biased towards liking anything in PICO-8, but it really is fine. I lked the graphics, but the music/sfx is *really* good. I enjoyed it very much.

Congrats on finishing within compo timeline!