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A jam submission

Canary CourierView game page

Catching the Canary: Delivering Happiness, One Wingbeat at a Time
Submitted by Quack n' Loaf Co. (@qnl_co) — 1 hour, 38 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Voice Acting#563.3003.300
Visuals#1044.3004.300
Music#1113.7003.700
Overall#1133.6003.600
Story#1773.1003.100

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Content Warnings
themes of mental health, blood and gore, flashing lights, disturbing imagery and audio

Log Line
Play as the little delivery boy canary bird Louis and build unique bonds with your customers! After a mysterious update step into the role of Catcher and try to navigate the ominous events now facing you.

Team Credits & Cast
# CREDITS

**Director, Writers, Character Designers, and Video Editors**
- Quack & Loaf Co.

**GUI & Programmers**
- Alessandro
https://x.com/panino_dev
- SAN
https://itch.io/profile/seo-a-nam
- samehawke
https://samehawke.itch.io/

**Sprites & CG Artists**
- shibakiba
https://twitter.com/shiba_kiba
- CRRN
https://x.com/_crrn_

**Helper Artists**
- smuisers
https://www.instagram.com/smuisers?igsh=c21oOGNqZHZrbmEx&utm_source=qr
- Weissily
https://weissily.carrd.co/

**Background & Item Artists**
- ajihaew
https://ajihaew.com/
https://twitter.com/ajihaew
- Fiona
https://www.instagram.com/unenthusedcrayon/

**Composers**
- Lilith "Lilithpad" Scarlet
https://x.com/lilithpads
- Apogio
https://composerapogio.com/

**Voice Actors**
- Samuel Hagg as Avel Leto
https://x.com/aseattorney
- Luminaryyxx as Evangeline Leto
https://x.com/Luminaryyxx
- Keedo as Kane Cozbi
- Pluto as Elise Shaw

**Miscellanous**
beta tester - AltairDeLirio & Lily Wisteria
https://altairdelirio.carrd.co/
senstivity reader - I Specialize in Sad
https://www.instagram.com/i_specialize_in_sad?igsh=MTN6eHUxMDM4NGxybA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
proofreaders - sieerrraaa & helio.wyrm
manager - Lily Wisteria
itch.io designer - https://mishantics.itch.io/

Is your submission created with the Light.VN visual novel engine?

No

Does your submission contain Boy's Love content?

No

Does your submission contain voice acting?

Yes

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Comments

Submitted (1 edit)

Have not finished yet, I'm as far as two stars. Going to pick it up in a few hours and then edit my review- Just reeeally wanted to get my thoughts down first before it slipped away. 


This was on my queue for a while, and while I've only played about 20 VNs so far- This is by far one of my favorites of this jam. 


[SPOILERS AHEAD]


Absolutely not what I was expecting. I settled in to my office chair, getting ready to play the super adorable looking bird delivery game. I was enamored by the coziness and embrace by Narrator Louis. Charmed by the warmth, cute feathery friends, and whimsical environment art. Whoohoo! Got my first star!

Then...the hospital.

And then. And then the video. 

... Then... Then I got my second star... and started to... nervously pick up details...

...And then... the second video...

The final line spoken before the start of the third day... I paused and started to recollect all the information given to me in just those 45 minutes I had played thus far. Then, I saw it was past midnight for me. So, I'm here now.

Edit: I'm just very pleasantly disturbed. Wow.  Just, well done. I don't want to say much else, I really want others to play to the end.

I'm beyond intrigued. I love... I love that false sense of security. I love the blend of these mediums. I love the attention to details.

Some technical notes- It's been mentioned by others, but I wish the audio for the voices during the video segments were much louder and/or had captions for accessibility. If a sense of ambiguity is still needed they could be partially obscured captions but I do feel I missed some key details in those recordings. 

I wasn't able to access my notepad or map during Day 1 or 2, and wondered if that was intentional or not. 

Huge kudos to the whole team for an amazingly polished, ambitious, and spooktacular game.

I'm already curious where the end of the story is flying to.

Submitted

Atmosphere and visuals were great. Was this really all done in a month? I'm very impressed with the amount of content and the quality of the art and voice acting. The videos inbetween were a nice touch as well. I had a hard time following the story though, it feels more like a loose collection of ideas than a cohesive plot.

Submitted

Not quite the game I expected - impressive blend of tones! The multiple versions of the sprites were done well, and the story was engaging. I feel like I missed a few key details due to being unable to change the volume of the voices' audio separately from the music in the video segments, but what I got the gist of was definitely ambitious. Congrats!

Submitted

Loved the illustrations/Art work, found a few bugs but over all I had a good time.  Great job!

Submitted

i liked the awkward and creepy in-between sequences between the cute and colorful game! Good voice acting and music/sounds!