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Boid of Prey's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Uniqueness (Originality of the game) | #6 | 3.952 | 3.952 |
| Theme (How well the game fits the jam's theme) | #8 | 3.476 | 3.476 |
| Overall | #9 | 3.262 | 3.262 |
| Fun (Overall enjoyment) | #10 | 2.976 | 2.976 |
| Balance (Speed of the game) | #12 | 2.643 | 2.643 |
Ranked from 42 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The game is looking cool! Making the bird fly all by itself is an interesting design choice.
It seems like the main danger is not other birds, it is time - since the HP decrease with time seems to scale up pretty quickly. Health upgrades do not really help with that.
The ending was pretty random and came out of nowhere. What are the requirements?
Thanks so much for playing! You are 100% correct, currently the idea is that your bird will only last so long and by upgrading you eventually can eat more to have your bird survive longer. So time is really what you are competing against. We spent so long getting the simulation together we didn't have much time to play test and find out how others would see the gameplay loop. So it's a little rocky in its current state. We are definitely considering how to alter this after the jam and already have some ideas!
For the end of the game you just have to consume all the enemy boids so when you upgrade food to that point you are essentially in the last stretch of the game.
Nice graphics! Good theme! I couldn't really figure out how to play. I kept getting killed before there was an upgrade option.
Thank you! We spent most of our dev time getting the simulation working, so the beginning and end are a little shaky. Sometimes your bird will get killed before you can gain enough resources to upgrade, you just need to click "Fly Again" and hope for a better food spawn, until you can afford one of the first upgrades (Food + is the best one overall)
Played through the whole game. Graphics are really nice.
I think the game could be extended on. The final goal was not really clear to me. and once you buy the last food upgrade its pretty much over. Also its not really clear how each of the upgrades works.
Thanks so much! We are probably going to add more after the jam's rating period is over! We unfortunately didn't have time to implement a tooltip UI element so we just had to put the upgrade descriptions on the Itch page description so you can currently find them there. Thanks for playing!