A lonely bowerbird
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
A lonely bower bird
You are a lonely bower bird, impress a mate to stop being lonely!
Controls:
WASD: To move
F: Interact / peck / pickup items / advance dialogue.
G: Fly upwards (hold g to glide)
Walk up to the female bird on the branch to see what she prefers each day!
Peck bushes to find more sticks / beetles!
Theme
This game was made for the Brackeys Gamejam 2022.2 the theme was: You are not alone. I interpreted this as You are alone at the start of the game, but if you finish the game You are not alone.
Goal:
Impress the female bowerbird by bringing gifts to the treasure area.
At the start of the day the female bowerbird will tell you what gift she prefers. Bringing her the gift she prefers will give you extra points.
Improve your bower by dropping twigs on the bower construction area.
At the end of the day the female bowerbird will let you know if she likes your bower.
Impress her 5 times to win!
Her likes ranked from low to high:
orange flower
berry
blue flower
blue beetle shell
gold beetle shell
She doesn't like loose twigs / leaves around the bower area.
Known bugs:
Sometimes you don't respawn at the start but instead stay at where you ended the day. This seems to be some sort of Unity Bug with character controllers, hopefully will fix that soon!
Credits:
Grass textures KennY
Mac version is untested sorry!
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I like the art and especially the legs. Picking up so many sticks is a little tedious. Maybe leaves or something else you can pick up more than one of also?
Please check out mine too: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-8/rate/1675396
Hey you're supposed to also pick up berry's/ flowers and beetles! Try pecking the stacks of leaves!
for some reason i cant open the game on mac? im not sure how i can play the game now
Hi could you try unzipping it with another program other than the standard IOS unzipper (like the the unarchiver or something similar?)
I did that and the game ran smoothly thanks for the help!
Fun unique game, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to play test.
Hint to future players. The splashscreen is controlled by pressing "F". Down sides to the game as it sits when I played. Days seem to short, must approach bower to find out what she wants, flight is cool but difficult with directional keys especially if moving to the right.
Thank you for your feedback, i've added a small tutorial to the game!