A downloadable game for Windows

THE BIRDS AND THE BELLS

probably the most fun ludum dare i've done despite being literally 2 days before my exams start

do NOT ask why the game's setting is so random it was purely derived from game mechanics ok


play as some horse who really hates birds for some reason!

kill all birds to finish the level!

all while every single block you touch is unstable and crumbles beneath your hooves!

BIRD

-flies

-gets stomped on

BELL

-drops without support

-makes a really loud noise but this game has no audio

(which is a shame cuz i think this game will benefit a lot from having sfx)

SCAREDCROW

-whiter than a bird even though its a crow??

-gets scared by the sound of the bell

OAT PELLET THING

-grants you one charge of NEIGH

-NEIGH can toggle between the states of the blocks

-can have up to 3 NEIGH charges (but that doesn't happen as of now)

ANDDD

HORSE (?)

-you (?) apparently

-because i came up with the idea of "aha what if its like un-stabling so its removing horses from stables" because i didn't want to do another platformer game

-but i ended up having a better idea

-but i still wanted to use the same sprite so here you go i suppose

-hooves on first?

MADE FOR LUDUM DARE 49 in 48 HOURS!!!

theme - unstable (cuz unstable terrain)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/$269136 <- if you can help me rate :>

CHANGELOG

v1.10

-made a few more levels

-also i dont know whether to call it birdbell or bellbird help

-and adjusted a lot of levels' balance design after some people's playtesting lol

for some reason playtesting my game jam games will always goes downhill

I RECOMMEND PLAYING THIS VERSION 

i fixed exploits like you can shove your face directly into a wall to bypass the NEIGH barrier and made levels more understandable and forgiving :p

Download

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bellbird.zip 1.3 MB
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source code 494 kB
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bellbird v1.10.zip 1.3 MB

Install instructions

clickteam fusion .exe files always trigger a false positive (ironic)

if windows defender thinks theres a virus, press more info and press run anyways

sorry about that :p tryna learn unity to get around that issue specifically

Comments

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cool game and cool concept but the third level is really hard and the controls are annoying to get used to (for qwerty). good job

really? it was kinda made for qwerty though hahah

would it be better if it was also mapped to spacebar instead? or w (but thats meant to be the button to face up)

and also yeah the third level went through a lot of changes so its in a weird state rn. i should definitely make it easier to understand

thanks for playing!