this game is really cute! i felt so calm raising my parrot that i was worried this was secretly a horror game lulling me into a false sense of security. when i got the messages about the bird trusting me i got a little emotional.however i think i got stuck in an infinite loop of bird facts? im not sure if that was intended but i didnt get to see my bird fully grow. regardless great job, i have a new appreciation for parrot
So, there are 3 growth stages but the bird only grows twices. Going from a chick to a fledgeling, thats when the scripted bonding events happen. Those are in white text. Once the bird is a fledgeling, those are replaced by the random events, which are in pink. Those are all special moments that happened between me and my bird. Then the bird facts, which are in green, kick in when the bird is fully grown.
In hindsight, I can see why thats confusing. I probably should have written events all the way to full growth for the bird, and started the bird as an egg to have longer story. Then just use the random ones for after those run out.
My original intent was actually to use the false sense of security like you mention and have your bird die, then get another and another up to day 100, then you die of old age. But it was WAY too sad. So the timeline for everything was designed around that.
Thanks for submitting to the Love Bytes game jam, awesome job! We will be demo-ing all the games tomorrow and announcing a winner on discord! Hope to see you there! <3
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this game is really cute! i felt so calm raising my parrot that i was worried this was secretly a horror game lulling me into a false sense of security. when i got the messages about the bird trusting me i got a little emotional.however i think i got stuck in an infinite loop of bird facts? im not sure if that was intended but i didnt get to see my bird fully grow. regardless great job, i have a new appreciation for parrot
So, there are 3 growth stages but the bird only grows twices. Going from a chick to a fledgeling, thats when the scripted bonding events happen. Those are in white text. Once the bird is a fledgeling, those are replaced by the random events, which are in pink. Those are all special moments that happened between me and my bird. Then the bird facts, which are in green, kick in when the bird is fully grown.
In hindsight, I can see why thats confusing. I probably should have written events all the way to full growth for the bird, and started the bird as an egg to have longer story. Then just use the random ones for after those run out.
My original intent was actually to use the false sense of security like you mention and have your bird die, then get another and another up to day 100, then you die of old age. But it was WAY too sad. So the timeline for everything was designed around that.
Thanks for submitting to the Love Bytes game jam, awesome job! We will be demo-ing all the games tomorrow and announcing a winner on discord! Hope to see you there! <3