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I love the music and the premise is adorable. I would recommend looking at the controls. Having them reversed to the direction you're wanting the mama bird to travel results in more frustration than I think you want. I think the speed of the snake mechanic and interesting levels can provide the challenge over the frustration of hitting LEFT and then swinging to the RIGHT. I use Construct as well, and I'm assuming you're using the car behavior. I'd play with it a bit to match the orientation of the viewer versus the mama bird head. Going down first, flipped the expected controls.

Cool concept!

Hi @goblinqueen, thanks for the comment! Direction actually works as intended. That input awkwardness from snake-like games was one of the things I was aiming for.

Sweet take on the snake concept. The controls are extremely sensitive. Still a very nice game.

I like it. The open map was cool and searching for the little birdies was fun. I did find the controls kind of clunky though. Did you ever try to swap the A and D controls to the mouse? Maybe that would have made the game too easy, I don't know. Good job nonetheless.

Hi @verttixpertti! I actually tried mouse (and other input schemes) at first, but I felt the game wasn't that fun at all. Having a movement that was slightly awkward made it more interesting. I believe the clunkiness might be a result of having a way too high steer speed (maybe?) but I was having some issues designing interesting levels with a lower one. It's tricky. Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

It's really hard. I died so many times... I wasn't able to finish the game, but I had fun playing it. The art is really cute, and I liked the music and sound effects!

A well polished game with a fantastic soundtrack! I Did managed to get to the end after 71 deaths. Very adorable game. Well balanced difficulty for my skill level.

Good job, i'm terrible at this game, liked the artstyle in particular

Love it! Great innovation to take the simplicity of the classic snake game mechanic and apply it to a zelda-like dungeon. I go lost several times like I normally do in a good zelda dungeon but got all my baby birds! . . . after dying 98 times :)

Overall superb! Loved the music. The controls were on point (albeit I cannot verbalize at any point in time which button will make the bird go in which direction which I think is interesting). I do wonder how the game would play if you could use the mouse to control the guy!

Liked the sounds, but don't know if it's really fits the theme of Keep it Alive.

Took me 172 deaths to complete, and I couldn't stop playing! A strange combination of addictive and frustrating.
Amazing cute aesthetic and music, and the style was so polished. Even essentially had a little mini open world!

Cons:
Doesn't fit the theme particularly well (though I partially blame a bad theme that could loosely apply to every game ever made)
Controls felt slightly frustrating at time - it wasn't possible to make micro-adjustments, so if you don't quite get the heading you want you have to press A/D/A/D/A/D to aim roughly in a straight line.

Overall an amazing submission.

Buen juego, el arte una pasada y los gráficos están bien hechos y son bonitos. La sensación de juego es un poco rara, me cuesta moverme de forma precisa y los sfx están un poco fuerte. La animación al coger al pingüino se me hace algo simple, ¿tal vez alguna animación más extravagante? En general, buen juego y bien pensado artísticamente.

I died how much? :open_mouth:

Great game! Pretty challenging on these tight corridors. Love the graphics, especially the fact that walls sparkle on the edges (little detail but adds so much).

I would introduce new content sooner, you need to play for a bit to see anything but brown walls. Especially for a game jam, when people need to play a lot of games and skip rather quickly.

I've never seen quite a game like this, it's a lot of fun while also keeping it challenging. The level design is good too, and the graphics, and the music... The only thing I'd rate low here is the theme, because it's kind of a stretch, but other than that a flawless game! I'd consider buying it if you expanded on the idea!

In 48 hours! How is this possible! The game has rich depth and highly polished. The Art and Music are absolutely balanced and fit together! Congrats!

I just had to play it all. Really well done.

it very nice game! 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 55 5 5 5!

Very nice game! Good challenges with different level design, art and sound are great, it's a really good and polished!

Died 111 times, gave it 5555555 rating. Really amazed at how well refined and balanced the art looks. Super interesting level design, and this is a really nice twist on tank controls!

Great game! Polished!

Very simple yet very fun game! The visuals are fantastic.

Massively polished. Lovely. It was great. Don't know how you made it. It was hard, but in a good way. Died 88 times. I do wish the map was more visible - maybe you can see it on the pause screen? I ended up rushing past it every time, even though I wanted to have a look.

Excellent work! Favourite game so far!

I love the style of this game, its like the original Snake game on steroids.

Really great game, would be great with controller support

very fun and satisfying gameplay mechanics

The controls are super hard, but the frustration is what makes this game so fun! One of the best game I've played so far!

Reminds me of a Finnish indie game from the 90s called Pizza Worm, similar twist on the snake formula. Love the art, but it is quite hard!

Cute game and idea, very challenging gameplay in a good way.

Funky :heart: Loved the music. It felt like the game was somewhat inspired by APE OUT (mainly induced by the music I guess). I enjoyed the sketchy-line effect. The gameplay was enjoyable and overall the game felt fun and challenging.

This is a very addicting game, the level design wchich always gave you the ability to choose the easier route was incredible!

Really good concept! The movement mechanics were very fun too! Overall this is a really good compo entry!

Brilliant take on the snake type gameplay and nicely challenging too!

Brutal, es super entretenido y es la mar de bonito y motivante! Morí 100 veces justas, no sé si contarlo como logro jajaja.​

HAN ! not my game type : it's to stressfull, and you are sadistic ! XD but it's smart, fun and very effective. I like the global motion effect and the music. Congratulations !

I made i through the first loop but got stuck on the second one. It felt very well made and I didn't have any issues with the controls. Or, rather, the issues I had was I kept hitting the walls but it didn't feel like the game's fault. So that was all good. It was a bit annoying that I had to press something to respawn the bird-worm. It kind of felt like the game indicated that it would autospawn after say three flashes. So I found myself staring waiting for the next chance quite often.

Snake on steroids, but damn it if there are baby birds to save I am saving those baby birds. Really addictive and challenging

best game i've played so far from this LD. Got me involved and entertained until the end. Very good design with a lot of tiny details that improved the experience, as never being able to pass obstacle without moving or the beak being a triangle that points towards where you are moving. Buen trabajo!

best game i've played so far from this LD. Got me involved and entertained until the end. Very good design with a lot of tiny details that improved the experience, as never being able to pass obstacle without moving or the beak being a triangle that points towards where you are moving. Buen trabajo!

Very well realized concept and one of the most fun of the Jam so far. Congrats!

Really like the little details and the art style. Very impressive to have a game only uses two buttons

This was so much fun to play, thank you! I died SO MANY times, and got quite frustrated, but I didn't want to stop. I love the colour palette, and the music is fantastic.

This game gives me Super Meat Boy flashbacks, the short levels and quick resets which makes you want to have one more try. Its so good! I also really liked how the level mechanics changed things up. I died so many times panicking before even getting to the speed boost pads!

This game is sooo good! I love the simple visuals and the music is great! It is super satisfying to move around. The game really makes you want to keep playing it and I love it! (I beat it with 111 deaths btw)

I tried this game because Effi is a nickname I was given as a kid. After just five minutes, I was already sorry that I had started. I died 242 times before gathering all of the chicks. The life of a mother. 5/5.

Awesome little game. Great visual style, great fun. Super challenging but controls are tight. Well done!

Nice art!

Comments:
- I have some hand pain in my wrists which made playing this game almost impossible and very frustrating. Would appreciate alternative controls or the ability to customizes the turn speed of the bird somehow. I died like 10 times just trying to exit the first room because of this.
- It would be nice if there was a "click to continue" type of thing when you die. I was waiting a while for it to automatically start again and the bird was just flashing. Also the flashing kinda hurts the eyes when going for so long;;;;
- In the html5 version, while minimized, space will scroll your screen down away from the game. Died a few times to this.
- Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the full enjoyment of this (I had to quit after 2 birds due to the tunnel and dying there way too many times) but I think someone who likes frustrating games (ala benny foddy) or games with tight controls would enjoy this!

Easily my favorite of the game jam so far! I love difficult games built around a simple but innovative mechanic and this game was exactly that.

I'd probably buy and play a full version of this game with more content and some sort of story that ties it all together :)

Excellent game. I told myself I would only play a few levels but I played the whole thing.

Wow this game was amazingly designed! I really liked the wobble shader too. Keep up the awesome work!

A cool new look at the old gameplay. I liked it very much, but it took a long time to get used to the controls. All in all very cool

Great style and interesting game couldn't finish it though.

Great style and quite fun. Just need more checkpoints.

Really cool style and very innovative gameplay! Great job!!

A simple yet solid little game, I really liked the controls. Awkward but fun to get used to. Well done!

First of all, I liked how the character comes off the dot on the 'i', nice touch! It is a lot harder than I expected, but still reasonable, so I liked the difficulty. The snake elements are cool. A gam like this needs tight controls and you have executed that superbly! The animated graphics were minimal and very effective, I found that one of the features that contributed to the liveliness of the game. I really liked the game overall, well done!

I found myself holding my breath for too long trying to get through rooms, which is probably a sign of how great this game is. ;)

This game is great to play but also very difficult very fast.
Overall the graphics and audio complement the experience very well and the mood is there. Very well polished and executed.

Thanks for the game!

art is cute, the game is nice. Controlls are really hard to get used to, it is indeed a difficult game. Well done!

I love the idea of this game, although it is very tricky. The turning is so strong, you might skip an angle you want to move in. Regardless, it's funny to imagine it as a long neck so this game is good :)

loved it! very solid

Good stuff! Cute style and nice music :) Managed to find all the birds, though it took me a while to figure out that some rooms have a map, and not being able to just turn around in a few rooms made it a bit frustrating to explore and find the last bird.
Overall I think the difficulty was fun - the rooms where you had to leave the way you came were particularly tricky.
One suggestion I'd have for the controls is having some sort of acceleration. That'd make fine adjustments easier, since you wouldn't start at the full steer speed immediately.

Not super innovative but a blast to play!

Yo! I know awkard controls was the goal... but not really my thing. In the end it's kinda frustrating. Other than that, nice job

After the 2nd or 3rd chamber I had a feeling, that some keyboard smoothness would be nice. But I get that this feeling happened on purpose! Nicely done entry, cool game by the way!

It's tricky, but fun! I think the respawn point should be at the most recent baby bird you've grabbed, rather than at the beginning of the room - seems odd to re-grab a bird you've already got a moment before (for rooms where there's only one to get). I like the unique gameplay and the Snake-inspired thin you've got going on. Cool level design too.

Fun game, I especially like the effect you're using along the outline of the world. Showing the bird when it failed, until the player presses space is also great. At the end, you mention that the music was made by Faizyr, do you have a link to the music?

I absolutely loved it, my favourite so far for this jam, good job! Yes it is a bit hard (took me 131 deaths to beat) yet so addictive and fun. I love the minimalist art style, the concept works just right, and the ld is well balanced. I'm just not sure how we're supposed to understand the map shown at the beginning.

Great art and style. A simple mechanic that has good progression. Feels like a complete experience which is impressive for a jam game! Nice work :D

Amazing work there @ludipe really impressive! I love the movement you added on all the sprites and levels, really adds that extra layer to it.

I find the game very challenging reminds me of learning to drive on a truck with no power steering (tend to over steer LOL)

I really enjoyed playing this game. I like this simple graphics. The concept is well executed and evolve quite nicely. Well done.

WOW! Everything about this just jumps alive- the music, the wobbly-line levels, the bright colros of the speed zones and the wiggly movement of your bird...I had SO much fun playing this and I suspect I'm barely even close to finishing it?
I wonder how it would feel with analog controls...part of the challenge definitely comes from the input method for steering and I'd hate to lose that though, reminds me of trackmania actually, but a lot brighter and more jazzy of course. I'm gonna show this to everyone. Great stuff

I love it ! it's so minimalist and cute !

This game was super beautiful!! Absolutely in my top ten, I had so much fun!!

enjoyed this, nice work!

super cool. rad art and music, fun but very hard. Maybe curvier geometry would be more conducive to wiggly snake-bird movement. overall this kicks ass!

Cool game! The level design reminds of Adventure. I also liked the music quite a bit. I wish the controls were a little less finnicky, though. Great work, though!

The graphics and style are great. really enjoyed playing, some of those tight corridors were really tricky which added a level of challenge to it. it would be nice if the player could control the movement speed as well as turning, whether that would make the game too easy I'm not sure..

I love the cartoony style of the game and nice music :3

Some levels were quite tricky, but it was fun to explore them!

This was an incredibly fun and cartoony take on Snake. Loved the overall style and some of the challenges. Found it interesting that the speed areas increased your speed regardless of direction despite what the arrows suggested (they could have slowed you down in the opposite direction).

Great entry! Loved the time I spent with the game, the movement was fun, and everything about the presentation was great. I only got about half way through though, I just couldn't clear one of the rooms (though that's just me not being all too good at the game) - but the half I did play was brilliant!

Definitely keep developing this.

I enjoyed this game very much! It was both challenging and rewarding in equal parts. I really liked the idea of the map showing up in some rooms, it gives a nice sense of exploration. Everything about the game is nice, keep up the good work!

Funny, well made, unique game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/POu9WBNgI08

Really amazing game, great graphics game play and music. All fits together so well could definitely be developed into a full game. Great job!!!

a really fun game. but sometimes the background music stop.
Well done

Very fun but so challenging!Good job!

This game is genious in it's simplicity and hardcoreness.

Thank you for making this little beauty, will definitely recommend it to my friends!

I really liked this game. Not too hard but challenging and frustrating at times. Very good balance. The music was groovy as hell! Well done to the composer. Only issue i have is the theme. It's sort of a stretch to call it "keep it alive".
Great game overall though! Good job.

Didn't play the game all the way through but enjoyed it a lot! It is indeed hard but just enough for it to be challenging. Well done!

Very fun, (and sometimes challenging) game! The controls we're a bit touchy at times, but I made it through the first section and I'm proud of that haha. Great work!

Great, among the best ones this jam I think! music is 10/10

oh very charming! love the cute art direction n vibe you got goin' here, perfect lil' snakelike

great game as always

The whole presentation is excellent. Great work!

Simple, yet fantastic game. I especially liked the DA and the score (what a score for such a short time !). Congratulations !

What an entry. Congrats for the hard work. The level of polish is awesome, gameplay is perfect. Graphics are top notch too. Congrats again.

It was fun to play

Very nice and challenging. Enjoyed it!

Awesome job on this one. Everything feels very smooth and pleasant, the gameplay is fun, quite hard but not frustrating. The level design is good. I liked the art.

Thanks a lot for the game!

Really interesting game, the overall look is great and goes well with the audio mood.

Gameplay is quite hard but that's a good point.

Nice polish of a simple mechanic.

Loved it - really good fun.
On seeing the description I thought: "oh, this one's described as a 'short' game - that's good because I haven't got long"
Some time later...

love the controls and the music

Really cool game, so so hard.

Man the game is amazing! Never played a game like this before, very original

A really good game again, clever concept and good level design! With this quality yet it could be a mobile game :thumbsup:

How awesome to be able to create something as fun, beautiful and engaging with so little, AWESOME job!!!

There's one thing that makes it addictive that is the time you have to wait before retrying: zero, you just press a button and you are trying to do you best again. The fact that the map is divided in "mini-level" it's another good point: when you die you just start over in this "mini-level", not from the beginning. That said, the game is awesome, well done!

20/20 for me 5/5 for you buddy. Great Game

Goodness this game is so great! I finished it and died 135 times. The only thing I would say is I would like to be able to see which rooms the little baby birds are still in. I had one left and had to go looking for him, but ... it was still really fun weaving through the rooms so I didn't really mind. Best game I've played this compo. So good!

Too much fun to not beat the whole game. There is nothing that I can even complain about, just a glorious concept. Polish it and publish it and I will play it. Best game I've played this LD. Amazing job man.

Died 238 times beating this game. Was a lot of fun, even if the theme didn't quite line up. Great work!

The game was amazingly great. I love the opening, but I think the game is too hard. You should make a easy and hard version. Overall it was great though.

Gorgeous visual design.

Love it, I could see playing this religiously on a mobile device, haha. Clever design work!

A nice snake game. The only downside is that I had to play in a very small window to get it run smoothly on my i5 Thinkpad. Note that as the game do not adjust its speed to real time but to frames rendered, if I tackle my GPU with it, it gets easier for the mama bird. :)

Loved this so much! The music and art were perfect, and it was very satisfying to complete. But maaan, some of those green levels were BRUTAL :sweat_smile:

i love music and sound effect

so hardcore!

great concept! loved playing it! thanks for this one!

Hard and frustating as Flappy bird was ! Well done it was good to play with !

Hard but I loved the art style and it was super fun. Great job!

Very well excecuted! 😃 amazing effort, really good package. I loved the graphics :) very cute

Crazy good entry! Considering the 48 hour time limit, I think what you were able to come up with and get done was awesome. Congrats!

Really nice presentation! Felt very polished and was a smooth experience. I found the controls a little too touchy, turns were very difficult, and then you threw in boosters! I wasn't able to complete it but enjoyed my time with it!

One of the best games tested so far, it very much feels like a full game's vertical slice rather than a simple game jam project. I would continue playing a full version on the phone if you were to release one :) Thanks for making this!

I really liked the overall style of the game, and the birds were super cute! As already mentioned, the controls were kinda funky - altough it was managable, since you just had to redo the one area.
I liked it!

Hey, I liked the graphics and the sound, but the controls were a little bit sensitive and I think it's not totally on theme, but nice try, the game seems to be well structured and it was cute.

Really great game!! I died 222 times to save my little birbs

im really bad at it but i love the take on the snake concept, the fact that the input are inversed was frustrating at first but i get use to it,realy like the music, great entry good job!

im really bad at it but i love the take on the snake concept, the fact that the input are inversed was frustrating at first but i get use to it,realy like the music, great entry good job!

Really fun entry, liked how well the simple gameplay and controls worked. The way you progressed and quick starts worked well in keeping me playing. The minimal graphics also were a nice touch in keeping the distractions to a minimum and the focus om the game.

One of the (if not the) entries I've played the most. Used the keyboard and always got awkward angles (on purpose?) which made the game even more fun. I also enjoyed coming up with alternative strategies like taking an early exit on a difficult level just to head back and make an attempt from a new position. Good work!

Very good entry, one of the most addictive and smooth!

Adorable art, music well chosen, nice concept. Sadly, I am terrible at games with only turn control, so I didn't beat the game ._.

I loved it!
Difficulty and fun in the right measure.
Get saved here on my pc so I can play more and more!
And what song is that? Very good!

Congratulations for the game!

Love the Super meat boy vibes :) Thanks for the game

A very nice spin on the "snake game" mechanics. I like the graphics, soundtrack and mood you generate. My daughter loved it although she didn't get very far ;)

Hello fellow Construct user! :smile:

Great concept, liked the hand drawn / jittery animation effect on the game. I found the jiggly animations on the zig-zag backgrounds that speed you up on the later levels extra difficult, as the animation itself is kinda disorientating.

This could definitely be something to develop after the competition, the simple controls lend themself well to mobile, and being used to 'car' style steering, it made sense the left/right controlling the rotation. Would be interesting to see an expert mode on mobile where to have to tilt the phone to steer haha.

This is a great game, the only problem is that the discrete keyboard controls feel overly tight. I wish I could play this with a gamepad, maybe using the two triggers to get some fine-grained control while keeping the spirit of the tank controls.

Very reminiscent of a classic Flash game called Line Game. :)

This is a fantastically polished entry! I love the art style and simplicity of it.

I only managed to collect about 9 before giving up. The simple revamp of snake was very well executed and the new room mechanics added a cool twist.

Ahhh this is so great!

Well Done. Love the controlls. i Had fun playing it. Keep it Up. :v:

A simple yet effective conceit coupled with great execution. Each type of object (speedground, moving blocks, baby bird, wall) felt meaningful and wrinkled the core gameplay in their own meaningful ways. The core mechanic of steering the bird, while simple to grasp, was difficult to master. As I neared the end of my playthrough I backtracked over a few places I'd traversed before, I noticed that I have tangibly improved. As I stretched my neck towards the last baby, I closed my eyes and whispered, "mama is here"

The music was fantastic. :clap:

This is great! The mechanics are simple and easy to understand, and yet the game is challenging. It is nice that this game is not the type of "I made this game as difficult as possible Good luck". I feel that you made efforts to let players beat it, like taking a lot of empty space in earlier levels and cutting some corners diagonally.

Also I love the art style and the music. Great job!

The game idea is really great.

Basically a very simple principle but you just can't stop.
"It can't be that hard... damn... so once again... and again...!

Great game keep up the good work. I had a lot of fun. Kudos to the level tester! :smile:

simple mechanic yet so fun to play! gj :)

Lovely game and well polished for a combo entry! THe gameplay is pretty challenging.

I love the art style! With the wobbles and the goofy looooong neck of the main character. Excellent work, my run had 60 deaths.