Comments on: The Bird-eating Macaque, Final

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:53:12 +0000

so – after reading everyone’s comments I went back and played this again. I had a LOT more fun now that I knew what to avoid and how not to die instantly. I enjoyed climbing around on the growing tree to get far away from the little black bullets. I like how you can jump on the top of trees. I like how if you get shot you drop down like a lead weight to the ground.

By: mrfun

mrfun — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:07:35 +0000

Love the tree growing.

By: grimfang4

grimfang4 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:27:01 +0000

*It felt like there were more bullets when I got higher.

I enjoyed hopping off the tree and scarfing down all the dead birds on the ground
It’s cool that I ended up holding off on eating birds so I could use them as shields.

By: GirlFlash

GirlFlash — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:31:05 +0000

well what I see going on is I’m a cryptid eating birds in a growing tree, dodging bullets from cryptozoologists who want me dead, at the expense of many birds it seems.

anyway, regardless of the ‘story’, the game is pretty cool, its a bit odd how it gets easier as the tree grows and you distance yourself from the people, but given more time I’m sure you could find a solution to that like cranes and ladders for the people (perhaps chainsawing the bottom of the tree to bring you closer? )

anyway, it was lots of fun

By: cap

cap — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:41:02 +0000

In one of his lectures Jonathan Blow talks about conveyance, or how well the game experience for the player matches up with the game idea in the developer’s head. It’s funny to read that some of you (in company with both my lady friend and roommate) have questions about what’s going on. It’s all so clear in my head!

I’m a bit comforted to know that, with the questions you’re having, I thought about things I wanted to do to make the point more clear. There’s only one thing that can make you fall out of the tree aside from jumping off yourself, but when I played I often missed the event even though I knew what it was. So if there was more time, there would have been more communication about what was happening.

Thanks for messing about in confusion I think my next entry will be heavily biased towards making explicit what is happening. Penance for this time.

By: HybridMind

HybridMind — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:50:41 +0000

well — seemed fun to mess around with. not sure what was ‘killing’ me or what not. seemed I could hang out and eat the red and yellow circles and as long as I didn’t leave the tree I was ok. sometimes though, I would suddenly ‘die’ and fall out of the tree.

What am i? Am I the macaque? What are the flesh colored things that shoot out the black dots?

I like how the trees grow. Wish I knew what was going on.. hehe.

Congrats on your first LD by the way, welcome aboard a very strange ride..

By: Doches

Doches — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:58:09 +0000

Yay! I’m not sure quite what’s going on, or what I’m supposed to do — but it’s strangely fun, still. And quite cool.

By: increpare

increpare — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:59:03 +0000

charming, though yeah, the loose condition is a bit weird; I can imagine this game could turn into something very cool with some more work. though, even as it is, it’s lovely.