Really enjoyed it. was playing it with my brother for quiet some time on a laptop. one person walking the other one shooting. We had an amazing time. Thank you ;)

I was a little discouraged that the birds didn't drop any hearts. That makes the bombs much less useful...

Cool game, just impossible to play on laptop, full keyboard controls would be nice.

Got a segfault on close on linux.

My train was constantly beset with birds armed with weights, and the engine would frequently catch fire. Occasionally a crazed lunatic of a man threw bombs from the roof.

But that's enough complaining about Southeastern Rail.

Y'know, I wouldn't normally focus on difficulty in a jam game, but everything else - the graphics, the sound, the controls - are just perfect. They don't aim for anything they don't need to be, and as a result, it looks, sounds, and plays really well. My only problem is that it's too easy: run left when the birds are flying in from the left, run right when they're coming from the right. Occasionally chuck a few more lumps of coal on the engine. You will never be hit, and there's no reason not to let the birds go un-exploded.

At 200km, I got bored, and decided to stop the train and bomb the engine, because that's the sort of person I am; and all of a sudden, things got challenging, because I had to be stood on the bomb cart, find an opening in all the one-tonne bird droppings, and aim my bombs correctly. It was hard! And I died.

...Sorry, I'm back to talking about Southeastern Rail, aren't I?

My game sometimes crashed when items were colliding (the cart in the intro, coal, etc).

Awesome visuals and interesting mechanics :p

Very  good, nice graphics and cool idea, reminds me of old nes games I used to play asa kid. Web version has a bug where the stone gets stuck on the train and the game basically crashes, happens every time.

I traveled 7km with only bombs and water (igniting the engine then putting it out). Not the right way to play. But very fun.

This was a really fun game! I had a blast trying to hit the 1tonne carrying birds, accidentally hitting the engine with a bomb and then trying to put out the fire! 

At first I was only throwing coal and blaming birds until I tried to move with the arrow keys, lame of me, haha. It's kind of fun, hard when unlimited flocks of birds keep throwing kg from nowhere. I left the train at 69km and started a farm. It'd be easier. Nice job!

Fun game. Had a few runs. Got to 39km. Controls were good, throwing mechanic felt satisfying.  However, most of the gameplay focuses on shooting birds and avoiding their cargo and not keeping the engine within optimal temp. range. 

I think the theme interpretation would be closer if the environment affected the engine temp directly, like birds throwing water on it or similar and focus the player more on keeping the temp, rather than avoiding the birds' cargo.

I tried to run this game in the browser on my Windows computer, and the only inputs that seemed to work were walking left (when holding down A) and pausing the gameplay with ESC (no menu came up though, if that was supposed to happen). I could not walk right or click on anything.

Edit: seems like the Windows desktop version is working fine. Although, you get a "crash" result when you close the game, so I'm not sure why that's happening. Certain resources / memory references still in use at exit or something?

I really liked the game. The art, music, and gameplay was decently fun considering its a jam game. Here is some feedback.

1. The bread cart wasn't functional (nothing was thrown when I was on it). I don't know if that's a bug or if it's a feature that just didn't make it in, but either way, it was a "thing" in the level that gave the appearance that I could interact with it, but I couldn't. This is a fault in the game design.

2. Throwing bombs at the birds was fun, but I feel like the game would've been more entertaining if there'd been some kind of challenge to it. Perhaps with faster birds that would swoop down and try to hit the player directly (perhaps allow the player to have a jump mechanic to jump over the diving birds) and then to have occasional birds come by with weights that, if not shot in advance, drop their load on a cart and potentially damage the train (so the train has health too). In every game I played, I basically had to let the weights fall onto me in order to lose. Or get careless with the heat and watch my train burn without realizing I can also chuck water by standing over the water cart (happened the first time I played).

Anyway, this was a fun little project. Great work! I could easily see this being a tiny little mobile game btw.