Ludum Dare #55compo
Summoning Song
Play as a birdwatcher and summon a variety of rare birds by imitating their melodic calls. Chirp, hoot, and screech into your microphone to attract your new feathered friends. Can you summon all 9?
- The birds respond to both the timing and pitch of your birdcalls, so make sure to mimic their sounds as closely as possible.
- The microphone symbol will light up when it detects that you started making sound. If you are making a birdcall but the symbol is not lit up, be quiet for half a second and then try again.
- If you get the message "Microphone not detected," make sure you have an audio input device connected and the game has permission to use your microphone.
- You can change your audio input from the default by specifying a number in config.txt. The list of audio devices for your system will be recorded in device_list.txt each time the game is launched.
Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 55.
Code: Game was programmed in Python using the pygame-ce library and built with pyinstaller. Audio processing done with python-sounddevice and python-soundfile.
Graphics: Artwork was drawn in paint.net.
Audio: Music was composed with MuseScore 3. Sound effects were edited in Audacity.
Font: Cooper Black Regular
Tips
- The game is best played in a quiet environment with minimal background noise.- The birds respond to both the timing and pitch of your birdcalls, so make sure to mimic their sounds as closely as possible.
- The microphone symbol will light up when it detects that you started making sound. If you are making a birdcall but the symbol is not lit up, be quiet for half a second and then try again.
- If you get the message "Microphone not detected," make sure you have an audio input device connected and the game has permission to use your microphone.
- You can change your audio input from the default by specifying a number in config.txt. The list of audio devices for your system will be recorded in device_list.txt each time the game is launched.
Credits
Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 55.
Code: Game was programmed in Python using the pygame-ce library and built with pyinstaller. Audio processing done with python-sounddevice and python-soundfile.
Graphics: Artwork was drawn in paint.net.
Audio: Music was composed with MuseScore 3. Sound effects were edited in Audacity.
Font: Cooper Black Regular
Genres: rhythm
Comments5
I appreciate all the little details like the birds approaching from the trees, and the victory screen at the end.
I drew a doodle of the owl:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DcRaUocL8UJ4jFaf8fOV0GSceNegeyX-/view?usp=sharing
I think she actually got Eagle-2 for me.
I kind of wish there were a push-to-talk option because there was construction going on outside and it was often hard to get it to register me starting a call. I also would have loved more visual feedback on what I was doing wrong, even just as a user-accessible debug tool. Apart from that, really nice. Love the graphics and the gameplay.