This is a cool game. Difficult but interesting. My only suggestion would be to maybe explain which direction each wing moves you, but I was able to figure that out pretty quick. Generally an interesting game.
The idea is very original, but the bird goes out of control pretty much instantly. If you could stabilize it a bit and add more obstacles (like eagles or electric cables), you can have a great game. Congrats anyway for the entry!
Took me a while to figure out a decent tactic to stay afloat for more than 5 seconds. Very fun and floppy controls, somehow reminds me of flappy bird :) Fun entry, keep it up.
Nice take on the theme and the QWOP-like genre! I really love this idea of QWOP but for wings instead of ultra-toned athlete calves, and I wouldn't mind seeing more development on it! In my opinion, this type of game is made so fun and compelling by forcing your brain to work extra hard by having to account for multiple controls at once, and more specifically, managing how those controls interact with each other and the game's physics.
The main suggestion I would give is to implement more visual feedback when you "flap". For me, I struggled to keep track of what was happening when I performed an input, because pressing the buttons mostly just made the bird kinda "pop" up into the air, and otherwise stay in a bird-T-pose, unless I went too far and it suddenly veered off to the side. In these types of games where fine controls are used—as in, tiny input presses cause large reactions—visual feedback is important so that the player can keep track of how their input is affecting the game. By learning the game's reaction to how long an input is held, a player can adjust accordingly and do better in the future. If the individual wings had rotated in accordance for how long I held the button, I think that would have been a step towards making the game feel more like something you could master with skill.
You might take the above feedback with a grain of salt, because I happen to be a certified Bird Nerd:tm:, so I might just be more picky about bird physics. My partner agreed when he played, however. He also almost immediately found a way to get stuck eternally and rack up a high score, but I didn't encounter this bug once, and I played several times.
Overall, a stellar and innovative concept with good promise, great relation to the theme, very fun, and quite funny (though perhaps not so for the bird)!
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A really funny game
Fun game, props.
The main suggestion I would give is to implement more visual feedback when you "flap". For me, I struggled to keep track of what was happening when I performed an input, because pressing the buttons mostly just made the bird kinda "pop" up into the air, and otherwise stay in a bird-T-pose, unless I went too far and it suddenly veered off to the side. In these types of games where fine controls are used—as in, tiny input presses cause large reactions—visual feedback is important so that the player can keep track of how their input is affecting the game. By learning the game's reaction to how long an input is held, a player can adjust accordingly and do better in the future. If the individual wings had rotated in accordance for how long I held the button, I think that would have been a step towards making the game feel more like something you could master with skill.
You might take the above feedback with a grain of salt, because I happen to be a certified Bird Nerd:tm:, so I might just be more picky about bird physics. My partner agreed when he played, however. He also almost immediately found a way to get stuck eternally and rack up a high score, but I didn't encounter this bug once, and I played several times.
Overall, a stellar and innovative concept with good promise, great relation to the theme, very fun, and quite funny (though perhaps not so for the bird)!
High Score: 13.27 seconds
Totally Cheating High Score: ♾️