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A jam submission

Scarecrow and SparrowView game page

A short cozy game about a scarecrow and a bird becoming friends
Submitted by CheeryBit (@CheeryBitGames) — 3 hours, 40 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#3374.2504.250
Overall#9133.6593.659
Enjoyment#14383.2733.273
Creativity#18593.4553.455

Ranked from 44 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Instead of being enemies, a scarecrow and a sparrow are friends

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing art

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Absolutely adorable game. The intro  had great sound quality! 

Submitted

very nice presentation and nice to have a cinematic, a page, relaxing music, artistically very nice. 

it makes you want to explore and help the epouventail, unfortunately the 'e' key doesn't open the suitcase. 

Otherwise really cool

Submitted

Such a cute game, lovely presentation.  The art, voice acting, and music in particular were wonderful.  I really like both string songs ya'll chose.  The only piece of feedback I have is that trying to use moving the camera to orient the sparrow forward is wonky.  It feels like the sparrow has one turn speed for turns called by the arrow keys, and another much slower turning speed where it turns towards the camera if the camera and sparrow forward vectors don't match. This made going up the stairs and hopping to get the axe weird, but other than that wonderful experience!  Thank you for making it!

Submitted(+1)

Really high quality game for being made in such a short time!

Submitted

Oh wow I loved all of the illustrations and narrative work!  What an adorable little game!  It was a bit hard to move around sometimes.  I felt like sparrow was fighting against me and had a mind of their own, but was able to complete the game with no problem.

I was worried that bringing the final item would end up with a darker fairytail ending tbh. :P

Submitted

What an adorable little game! The cutscenes were amazing, just like a storybook. The environment was charming too. I wish the gameplay involved some more “friendship” (if that makes sense), since most of the game is just fetch quests. But this works too, and it’s really cozy. Nice work!

By the way, in terms of bugs, the game kept getting confused which way was forward, so I might check that out.

Submitted

Really nice visuals and sound, though I got lost when playing the game(maybe you can add an arrow to guide the player where they need to go next).
Overall a very good game, great job!

Submitted

Amazing 3D entry! You really nailed the low poly look and the intro illustrations + voicing seriously feels like something I could've seen as a child; I loved them. The presentation is fantastic, and I love the exploration in this. Really the only thing that was slightly awkward was the controls took a little bit to get used to since the character does not rotate that quickly where the camera is facing while moving. Maybe that's more of a personal preference lol. 

Other than that though, the premise was creative and I had a lot of fun. Great job!

Submitted

It was a very cute game, I love exploring a giant world as a tiny character!

It's tough to really say there was much interesting about searching around random locations for items (what does a maze have to do with hats? lol). The platforming challenges were fun, though could be a little frustrating due to how the controls interact with the camera (are the controls locked to 8 directions or something?)

The story sequences are very polished, I love the voice acting!

Submitted

Game was overall fun and very polished to a jam entry.

Okay so feedback/critique:

-Players (me included) usually start by exploring interesting places, so i was dumb and missed key completly, and searched the maze, the plane, and the treehouse all before seeing it:D. It kinda payed off tho because now i knew the locations, but still its one thing to keep in mind. Otherwise, searching items was easy enough to be fun !

-The controls are very wierd where mouse kinda affect your move direction but not rly, in the end it isnt as pleasant as it could be

-Music gets little bit annoying, but it fits to the game otherwise very well ngl

- I mean... its not very creative for a jam about innovativity... but i mean neither is our game so who im gonna blame here :D. 

Submitted

Awesome atmosphere and art style! I felt maybe the game would look better with toon shading, but still at this stage, everything looks awesome! Maybe a little bit of highlighting on the cursive lettered buttons would be nice. Controls also felt good to play. Good Job!

Feel free to hop into my game as well, and share your rating and comments if you have the time!

Submitted

The drawn cutscenes are so beautiful. I was amazed by the size of the game. Really liked the tree, where you could see a big portion of the game world.

Maybe the movement could be relative to the camera and not relative to the character.

Written walkthrough really helped, because I didn't know where to find something for the scarecrow to wear. Maybe being able to see the whole world from the tree would help a lot.

But those are only minor things and overall, the game is nice.

Submitted

A bird in your game, it's so cute, the graphics are awesome too. Simple controls, very relaxing game
Submitted

The presentation is cute and very well-done. Unfortunately, the controls and gameplay are a little too finicky to be fun to play with. The bird moves in an unintuitive way and what small platforming is there is not great as a result

Submitted

The presentation is great for 48 hours.  I liked the image of the sparrow carrying a huge suitcase and axe.  

I think the art style is great for making this game in such a short time. I can see that bird being more animated in future revisions. I was a little confused and lost as to where to go after I got the key though, the area within the fence seems to stretch on forever, but overall I had fun with this.

Submitted

Simple but enjoyable and very peaceful - graphics were good, and great music choice!

Submitted

Interesting concept and well executed!

Submitted

Really cute graphics and music! Turning the character with the camera has a really wide angle ("he turns like a semi truck" - Jemmeh in chat) that feels a bit awkward to move with, but other than that the game controls well :)

Great job! I loved the artstyle. Feels like a fully fledged game!

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