Trapped Bird

A silly little game about a trapped bird.

I struggled with the theme this year, I got stuck in a loop for 2 days, thinking about loops and nothing else. Attempting to take my mind off the Jam, I started to think about the first game I finished, which was the GMTK flappy bird tutorial video.

I wasn't sure if a typical flappy bird remake would be interesting. This reminded me of a version I played with walls. So the bird is trapped and it can only loop round and round... I am not 100% convinced but at least I have an idea.

I knew I wanted to use Pico 8 in this Jam. but I haven't finished a project with it. 1 day later I had it working with a lot of juice but no collisions! 1 more day passed and I had remade the entire game with collisions but no juice!

The pixel art is all created in Pico 8, however I took inspiration from Bing. I am not able to find the art that inspired my renditions, if you know the artist, or are the artist, let me know and I will add credit.

You can use Up, Z or X during gameplay

• Avoid leaving the chamber!
• Avoid the spikes!
• Flap to victory!

Things I would like to add.

• some collectables
• music
• more sound effects
• different traps
• more interesting death animation

Known bugs.

• Rocket jumps, I can’t upload the fix until voting ends.