Summoning Bumper by MatthiasBroske
Two Birds, One Climb
Meet Isa, a flightless cormorant who must traverse the Galapagos landscape to reach home without wings big enough to fly. She will have to rely on her fast-flying, legally blind best friend Bumper to rocket her up the slopes. With a trusty bird call to summon her pal and a springy toilet seat that washed up nearby, Isa just needs your help to pilot her and Bumper through this rough terrain. Good luck!
(PS - Isa would appreciate if you found her some tasty squid along the way!)
Controls
Input Device | Move | Jump | Shield | Summon | Parry | Restart
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Mouse & Keyboard | 
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Parry at the perfect time for the optimal launch trajectory | Be careful! Launch too far and you might just fall into a pit
Authors
- Tias - Lead programmer, graphics, game design, art
- Dan - Lead artist, animation, game design
- Ken - Music/audio, programming, art
Credits
- Color Palette - Mulfok62
- Text Animation - Text Animator for Unity
- Font - Silkscreen by Jason Kottke
Change Log
- Add hot fix build with broken level removed - 4/15/2024 9:12PM
- Add WebGL build - 4/15/2024 9:45PM
- Add MacOS build - 4/15/2024 10:48PM
Ratings
| Overall | 617th | 3.532⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 564th | 3.468⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 176th | 3.871⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 985th | 3.097⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 765th | 3.468⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 499th | 3.367⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 247th | 3.65⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 841th | 3.3⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
The summoned birdie reminds me of Beat from Megaman, was it the inspiration for Bumper?
Awesome music as well!
Graphics and matte painting are a bit flat. 2D games seem very good express some art like Gris, Limbos etc..
On your case with the birds could be a bit more funny and look like "Tuca and Bertie".
Camera was very tough, Sometimes you have to jump blind and hope you'll reach some platform.
It took me a while to get that you can move the bumper with the mouse and to place my self as I should to make the jump.
The mechanic seems quiet complicated like the physics of the little bird colliding plus de option to parry etc..
Maybe some easy levels to start with would have been awesome. I reached level 3 after dying a lot of times.
And I tried many times there to go to the door on the little platform but was super hard.
Hope you had great time as well doing a little game in 72 hours :)
The audio wasn't working the web build for some reason, which as a bummer - may have to try out one of the other versions to get the full experience. But job well done!
Maybe there could be a mechanic where you click somewhere on the screen and he will fly to that position, going through platforms but not interacting with Isa.