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A jam submission

Mystia Lorelei Bird Defense ForceView game page

a maze-building tower defense with Shapes and Japes
Submitted by Lily Cutesmith (@Terrorbuns), Comfy Basilisk — 14 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of Theme#34.1284.128
Gameplay#34.1494.149
Overall#64.1284.128
Challenge#73.8513.851
Concept#74.0434.043
Story / Writing#153.0003.000
Audio / Music#173.2983.298
Visuals#203.8943.894

Ranked from 47 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team Members
Lily Cutesmith, Ada Basilisk

Streaming Permission

Yes

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Comments

Submitted

i got 2 angry trying2  figure out how to get past the first wave so. um. why is yuyu kirby

Developer

why aren't you kirby

Submitted

💥-ohvmy god im kirby

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to hatch the eggs, then noticed the SERVE button. Everything is quite great, it is amazing that so many different birds and pigeons(?) were made during this short period of time, plus a whole complete tower defence system. Great work!

Submitted(+1)

Fun Tower Defense game. Love the angle of the bird super team.

Submitted

I couldn't beat Yuyuko. She just kept eating my towers!

Submitted(+3)

yuyuko you BITCH!!!!!!!!!!! great game

Submitted(+1)

Oooh the strategizing here goes deep. Highly addicting fun. I didn't expect intelligent butterfly pathfinding would be something to reckon with.

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Developer (2 edits) (+1)

Huh! I'm not sure how we didn't catch this in testing, but it seems like alolan crow tower dying while its laser was active would cause a scenario where, because the laser refers back to its parent object during its destructor function but the parent object more or less already doesn't exist, it accessed undefined memory and crashed the game. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! We've put up a hotfix for it c:

(+2)

Very nice. The art style is very cute and I like the free form tower defense gameplay that lets me funnel the waves how i want to. My only gripes is that i wish there had been some description of how each of the birds work, there was a lot of trial and experimentation to figure out what they do.

Developer (1 edit)



There is actually a description of what all the birds do on the second page of the how-to-play section! However, i suppose it's not exactly obvious that you'll be able to pull this up if you hit the pause time button. But I'm glad that you enjoyed our game anyway c:

(+1)

i am very bad at open-ended tower defense, my brain fried, didnt defeat boss

Love the style, very funny and cute.

(+1)

Please add tooltips c: solid game though, if a bit short :3

Developer

while it would take a lot to add tooltips as things stand, the new version 1.1c does address the sound breaking issue you experienced on your stream, and greatly smooths the transitions between the song modes c:

Submitted(+1)

I couldnt figure out how to place towers for a while, having a clearer signifier for like, Select mode vs Placing This Tower mode, or something? Or maybe text labels next to your cursor for what either button will do right now? Onboarding aside though, very cute, "Alolan Crow" and "Real Bird" are extremely funny to me, and overall a very satisfying challenge! My highest score was 910, idk if thats very good or not

Developer(+1)

i think there could definitely be room for better ways to display some of the info at hand, and a theoretical later version to increase scope will certainly add some things based on the feedback we've gotten. We both wanted this project to push us outside our comfort zones, and in this case it's Lily's first time making mouse-driven gameplay work, so it's a bit unrefined. However, in a version released after you played, we did expand the relevant notes in the How to Play to cover placement and hatching controls, and you're now prevented from beginning the first wave if you haven't hatched an egg, so confusion should be at least partially mitigated c:

Submitted(+2)

i played for like 2 hours just custom building funny bird machines to kill butterflies, i think this might be my fav from all the games in the jam.

amazing work

(+1)

I've played this for hours on end and it was worth it!


10/10

Submitted(+2)

Honestly incredibly fun and gets pretty challenging later on, big fan!

Developer(+6)

when painting the splash image for the game over screen, i named one of the layers "mystia sad kelly statue of liberty crying." i think anyone who has scrolled down to see the comments on this will want to know this