The first chapter of a story about a boy and his bird. Together with his lifelong companion, a shapeshifting bird called Flitt, a young boy named Sparrow braves the dangers of the dark forest near his village in his quest to prove himself a man.
Communicate with Flitt through a series of whistles and use his small size and shapeshifting abilities to make your way through the forest.
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Additional information and a list of controls are on the itch.io page. Hope you guys enjoy!
Beautiful game with a really innovative song/whistling transformation mechanic. I really wish it'd been longer. Also, a health bar or something would have been nice. Overall a very good game; could be a full-fledged title, with some more length.
An interesting platformer with a unique mechanic. I really liked the tranquil atmosphere from the art and sound as well; I'd love to see more levels for this! (I can smell the Rayman in here somewhere ;) )
This is a beautiful game, shame it's short. The art style fits really well, and the bird changing forms through whistling is an interesting concept. I found it easy to remember the note combinations. If this was made into a full length game, I'd play it! I would say that a health system might be a good idea to put in though.
Really interesting concept right here! Despite the level designing (not very inspired in my opinion), I really liked how the overall game felt. I believe it has potential. Good job!
novel whistling idea, I really liked that aspect. I hope in post-compo it's developed more as I'd love to come back and play it! maybe a chart for the notes that you can pull up in-game. and checkpoints as I died a LOT. :) Great atmosphere too!
Excellent graphics and the whistling mechanic is very cool. I only wish there was a death animation or something, instead of just instantly going back to the menu (also at one point I hit a bug where there was like an invisible ceiling above me when I jumped). Overall excellent game.
Had a lot of fun, really enjoyed the whistling mechanic, it was also executed well (had a lot of fun just playing tunes with the whisteling xD) It was a bit annoying getting sent back to the start of the level every time I was killed.
I really loved the whistle mechanic, art and audio together created an awesome atmosphere. Sparrow got stuck a few times, but beside that really nicely done!
Very peaceful and relaxing game. Love the graphics and the atmosphere. The level design was really good but I got stuck after learning Pheonix and needing to activate a mushroom, I didn't know how to turn the bird back to the gray version. I would have tried again a few times but starting from the beginning again every time was too much frustration for me. I do have a shot attention span though! Took me away to another place for a bit.
@chriis88 @Chikoness Hey guys, thanks for playing! I don't know of any bugs with the phoenix song and I just checked again to make sure that it works. Did you remember to press <Space>, sing -only- the phoenix song and then release <Space>? If you get it right, the phoenix should do a small animation and a new (short) song should appear. Not sure what else to suggest, but please take another shot at it if you find yourselves with some free time!
I tried it again in wine on a different machine, same outcome. It doesn't matter how fast or slow I play the notes/hit the keys nothing happens after releasing space :/
@chriiis88 Really sorry to hear that. >< Must be something to do with WINE, and I can't really do bug fixes for a platform I have no access to! I hope you enjoyed what little you got to play, and thanks a lot for persevering, even though it ended up not working!
I even tried it in a Windows-Virtualbox and it didn't work. I'm starting to think it's not me but the game... If you ever upload another version hit me up on twitter (same username) and I'll be glad to test it again! Twitter, because the LD site doesn't really tell you if you get a message.
So like... I spent some 10 minutes just whistling before I went on to try and beat the game. It was fun. I like the whistling. Sometimes I would get stuck in the platforms, but I could jump my way out. It was kinda frustrating to have to start all over whenever I died, I would have liked some kind of health system. The game looks nice, the art style is nice cohesive. Aside from the little bug, the platforming was good. Would whistle again.
So like... I spent some 10 minutes just whistling before I went on to try and beat the game. It was fun. I like the whistling. Sometimes I would get stuck in the platforms, but I could jump my way out. It was kinda frustrating to have to start all over whenever I died, I would have liked some kind of health system. The game looks nice, the art style is nice cohesive. Aside from the little bug, the platforming was good. The whistling gets 5/5, would whistle again.
The whistle mechanic was great and I really like the idea behind this game. The graphics were excellent and the audio perfected the mood. The only problem is that it was very frustrating to go back to the beginning of the level with every mistake. Otherwise great entry!
Really really good work, you're definitely on the top of my pops! The whistle mechanic is so creative that made it to a next level! I even got to play Star Wars for my bird! I wish he could've become a TIE fighter haha! The artwork and animations are also very cool! Congratulations a LOT!
Took me a while to realise how to perform the commands (maybe there should be more detailed information that you need to start holding Space, play the song, and stop holding or something? Or maybe it's just me being dumb...?). But at least I got to play Undertale main theme in the meantime (1541334 etc.).
Completed the whole thing. I usually don't consider platformers to be particularly creative, but this one seemed to have somewhat fun mechanics. The movement mechanics were acting kinda sloppy, though; I seemed to get a little stuck sometimes, and the platforming generally didn't feel particularly smooth. The audiovisuals were quite fancy.
You seem to be planning to make more of that. I wonder what else you have in mind, because so far it wasn't really varied (just the base form and the phoenix so far)...
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Well done!
Great graphics, great gameplay (Difficult to remember the sequences sometimes hehe), nice sound, well, great game!
Hey guys, thanks for playing! I don't know of any bugs with the phoenix song and I just checked again to make sure that it works. Did you remember to press <Space>, sing -only- the phoenix song and then release <Space>? If you get it right, the phoenix should do a small animation and a new (short) song should appear.
Not sure what else to suggest, but please take another shot at it if you find yourselves with some free time!
-Skruffye
Really sorry to hear that. >< Must be something to do with WINE, and I can't really do bug fixes for a platform I have no access to!
I hope you enjoyed what little you got to play, and thanks a lot for persevering, even though it ended up not working!
-Skruffye
Sometimes I would get stuck in the platforms, but I could jump my way out. It was kinda frustrating to have to start all over whenever I died, I would have liked some kind of health system.
The game looks nice, the art style is nice cohesive. Aside from the little bug, the platforming was good.
Would whistle again.
Sometimes I would get stuck in the platforms, but I could jump my way out. It was kinda frustrating to have to start all over whenever I died, I would have liked some kind of health system.
The game looks nice, the art style is nice cohesive. Aside from the little bug, the platforming was good.
The whistling gets 5/5, would whistle again.
The whistle mechanic is so creative that made it to a next level! I even got to play Star Wars for my bird! I wish he could've become a TIE fighter haha!
The artwork and animations are also very cool!
Congratulations a LOT!
Completed the whole thing. I usually don't consider platformers to be particularly creative, but this one seemed to have somewhat fun mechanics. The movement mechanics were acting kinda sloppy, though; I seemed to get a little stuck sometimes, and the platforming generally didn't feel particularly smooth. The audiovisuals were quite fancy.
You seem to be planning to make more of that. I wonder what else you have in mind, because so far it wasn't really varied (just the base form and the phoenix so far)...