Relive Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds through the avian eyes of Commander Bird, leader of the fiercest squadron of angry fowl. Your goal is to eliminate as many humans as possible.
\nBefore attacking, strategically place your flocks of birds. Then, when the humans least expect it, attack! Move your flocks to eliminate your targets before they can reach safety.
\nEliminating more than 50% of your targets will get you to the next stage.
\nGood luck, Commander!
\n","source":"mtmckenna/js13k2022","stars":1,"comments":[{"at":315693610,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"Very funny and original concept. I could not figure out if there was a different strategy than just add all birds to the flock and move the flock over the people? So the gameplay was maybe too simplistic, but I found myself laughing at the bird carnage the whole time.
\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":315742192,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"A fun little game I played for a while trying to get better results.
\nI wasn’t sure what the benefit of having some birds in a flock was and others not.
\nI also didn’t realise I could move the pink circle to drag the birds around.
\nLots of blood so not very kid friendly. Although the cartoon like graphics were refreshing.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":315783217,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Funny Idea, it would had been better with some powerup to do a stronger attack for some time, for desperate situations.
\n","games":["EVAC3D"]},{"at":315815001,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Fun concept, would be cool to have powerups to make the birds more powerful or more accurate to the target. Still had fun though, nice game!
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":315876721,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Hilarious game. Never seen anything like it.
\nI think it would be great to add the “retry” button If 50% of the humans enter the building, instead of having to wait for all to be killed or gone.
\nIt looks like the UI hints towards being able to have more than one flock, which I think would make the gameplay more interesting.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":315956995,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"fun game but I couldn’t figure out what is the advantage of not putting all the birds on flock. Sometimes the humans go outside the screen and it is unclear if they get killed or not.
\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"typ":2,"at":316233670,"author":"Clément Pasteau","login":"ClementPasteau","gh":4895034,"twitter":"ClementPasteau","text":"Wow, that’s some original game!
\nI’ve got to admit, I was a bit lost at first on what to put where, and what the buttons do.\nMaybe a little tutorial in-game could help, or 1 super simple level with 1 bird to get to know the mechanics first.
\nThe assets are hand-made and not very detailed, but it gives its own personality!
\nFor your next game, try adding a few sound effects, and music! This would add a lot of charm to it, and makes players want to try again if they fail on first attempt.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316756404,"author":"Ania Kubów","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"A very original concept and fun implementation. I enjoyed how the mouse movements affected how far the birds would move out from the flocks centerpoint. It would be great to have some matching sound effects for the overall visual chaos that you managed to achieve by having pixels breaking off with each collision. Bravo.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316775292,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"What a weird and wonderful game! It definitely takes a while to get the hang of the game.
\n"},{"at":317107817,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"This game looks really fun but I don’t understand the mechanics very well. Why are people attacking cars and trash bins?\nLove the graphics.
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