Budgerigar
A downloadable game for Windows
Play as a flock of budgies exploring the Australian outback.
Built for the 2024 GMTK game jam.
Left click and the budgies will follow your mouse.
The original concept was to play as a single escaped pet budgie who would explore and find friends to add to the flock. Due to time constraints I was only able to create the final part of the game where you control a large flock zooming across the Australian outback.
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I just stumbled upon your game and just gave it a try. It is an interesting idea to move your flock across the outback.
Are you planning to continue working on your concept? Or are you moving on to other ideas after this jam?
I found your game while looking for another budgerigar game I played many years go. Once I wanted to create a game about an escaping pet budgie as well, so it was funny to read your game description. I still hope that I'll make my game one day. :)
It was also nice to see that you created this with Godot. The prototype worked well for me so far, just the loading time on game start felt a bit long and I had one little freeze while playing fullscreen.
I guess you could improve the relaxing experience by adding some ambient sound or maybe (optional) music - sound has such a great effect on the mood! - but of course I totally understand that this was created in a short time for a game jam, and the flock behaviour with the birds following the cursor is so cool already!