Starling

Pushed out of the nest by marauding Steelbeaks, Lenny finds themself in the middle of what seems to be a never-ending cycle trying to make it back home. Grow stronger generation after generation until one day you can make it back where you belong.

CONTROLS:

WASD/Arrow Keys - Weak flying, minor adjustments

Drag Left Mouse - Enter bullet time, launch yourself in a given direction.

Drag Right Mouse - Enter bullet time, fire a bullet in a given direction.

NOTES FOR PLAYING:

0. You will have much better experience if you have a mouse.

1. I recommend using Chrome. On Safari the mouse input often gets bugged and it won't register a mouse release until you move the mouse which makes it much less fun to play.

2. You can press backspace to skip each portion of the tutorial.

3. PRO-TIP #1: You can be charging a launch and a fire at the same time. This oversight sick tech makes it much easier to get out of swarms by keeping the right mouse button held down, while doing a series of precise launches with left mouse without ever leaving bullet time.

4. PRO-TIP #2: Flying towards the top of the screen and spam-clicking right mouse button is a surprisingly good way of killing enemies since they'll move (relatively slowly) up towards you.

5. I unfortunately ran out of time before being able to give the game a proper ending boss fight, or ending at all really.

CYCLES?

ASSET CREDITS:

Boss Battle Music by Juhani Junkala - https://opengameart.org/content/boss-battle-music

8-Bit Sound Effect Pack OwlishMedia - https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-sound-effect-pack

Vaporware (menu + death music) by The Cynic Project (cynicmusic.com / pixelsphere.org) https://opengameart.org/content/calm-piano-1-vaporware

Room Clear Sound Effect by CongusBongus - https://opengameart.org/content/new-thing-get

All other music by Juhani Junkala - https://opengameart.org/content/jrpg-pack-4-calm (A Place I Call Home, Childhood Friends, Sand Castles).

TEAM:
Special thanks to Raina and Bridgette for helping with assets to make the game feel more alive.

CODE:

Here https://github.com/mpekala23/starling.