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A jam submission

Birds Are RealView game page

Chaotic arcade game about running a secret government agency
Submitted by Paz (@PazMakesGames) — 17 minutes, 15 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#983.7243.724
Theme#1193.8623.862
Overall#2803.4203.420
Fun#4483.1723.172
Audio#4533.1033.103
Graphics#4663.4483.448
Game Design#5063.2073.207

Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
Birds are obviously not real

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
No

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cool game, nice effort! keep it up

Rated, would appreciate if u check out my game too ;) https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-7/rate/1418965

Submitted

Really fits the jam theme, love the idea of being a bird master control room guy. I don't know about y'all but I'm convinced that birds aren't real.

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I love that when you look out the window you see you hard work by the conveyer belt pay off. All those very real and not at all fake birds!

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Cool game. The camera switching concept worked well. I liked the conveyer belt bird building idea.

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Really nice game,

Took me a minute or two to figure out what everything actually means, but after getting it, it was a nice game to play which had me going for a nice amount of time😂

Submitted

nice game

Submitted

Cool game, keep going

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A hidden gem, I had so much time with this one. Assembling the birds feels like working a minimum wage job, dragging birds and making decisions are both so funny and innovative. This is really impressive, well done!

Submitted

Cool game. i like the camera switching mechanic thing. :)

Submitted

Great and fun game. The best interpretation of this game jam theme I've seen so far

Submitted

One of the best games from this jam that I've played so far. It's straightforward and easy to interact with but the increasing difficulty is tuned very well as to keep it challenging. Fits the theme perfectly (don't believe the propaganda) and the audio/visual design is spot-on.

Submitted

Really interesting idea of a multitasking game. It was really hard and challenging, but if it is the style you want, it is great. Well done.

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Great game, one of the best I have seen!!

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The micro-managing bird assembly gets pretty complicated fast, but I liked playing through the meme!  GJ

Submitted (1 edit)

It was confusing at first, but the game was a very interesting take on the theme, and once you learn how to play it was very fun and challenging!

Submitted

Very nice idea! 

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The objective of the game wasn't really made very clear, I recommend in the future adding some sort of tutorial level, but I started laughing when I saw one of the birds in the bottom not have a head.

Submitted

This game is AWESOME. Amazing work! It took me a while to figure out how to navigate the 3 screens. On my first playthrough, I just assembled birds and didn't understand why I lost XD then I started figuring out the other two screens. I failed a few more times because I wanted to stop robberies. Which brings me to another awesome thing about this game which is the social commentary. The fact that you have this surveillance system and the ability to stop robberies, but you don't. If this were a full game, and not a jam game, I would suggest breaking up the different mechanics over a few small levels, or tutorial level, where you're the new guy at the spy agency, and they start you off building birds, then gathering new ones for research, and then dealing with intel. Sometimes the birds on the screen with the cages were a bit difficult to select and finnicky, but overall this was an awesome experience. 

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Thank you so much <3