Birds With Guns
An Owl-some Roguelike Twin-Stick Shooter
Are you ready to have a quacking time? Toucan play this egg-citing game right now! Made by an im-peck-able team of quail-ified developers, you're gonna have no egrets.
Evil Robofox has captured all the birds to steal their eggs. The bird kingdom is counting on you to save them!
Controls:
Keyboard + mouse mode:
- Arrow keys or ESDF: Move
- Left click: Shoot
- Scroll: Switch weapon
- P or Enter: Pause
Keyboard only mode:
- Arrow keys or ESDF: Move
- X: Shoot (V or M also work)
- C: Switch weapon (Z or N also work)
- P or Enter: Pause
Birds With Guns is a passion project made by a bunch of friends over the course of a vacation. If you found it fun and wish to give us a tip, an offline version is available for download for the price of a donut 🍩 :)
Also available on the Pico-8 BBS: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=45334
Source code: https://github.com/Yolwoocle/birds_with_guns
Contact the devs: https://yolwoocle.com/about
Purchase
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Development log
- Devlog - Final Update now out!Nov 29, 2021
Comments
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Its a prety fun game, teh graphics are really nice and the sound design is also good. Also many birds :3.
But I do think the enemy HP is a bit too high, makes the weapons feel a bit weak honestly
Thank you so much for playing! And thank you for the feedback too!
High Score: 6:20 5/7 Wagons 82 Kills
AMAZING GAME
Thank you for playing!
i REALLY love it :3
Thanks! :)
okay, this is officially the BEST pico-8 game ever made, nothing beats, IM IN LOVE
Thanks <3
what is pico-8?
Hey! PICO-8 is a game engine that tries to feel like a retro "fantasy console" by putting limitations on the screen, graphics, memory and sounds of the games you make with it. It's very simple to learn and very fun to work with and has an amazing community. It's paid, but if you enjoy making small games and the challenge of designing games with such limitations, you might want to try it out. Personally, it's among the best purchases I ever made and I love it. Hope that clears everything! :)
ok thank you! I've never heard of it before
quick question, how would one port a pico-8 game to itch?
Hi! PICO-8 has the export command, which lets you upload your games as HTML5 or executables. There's this tutorial by Lazy Devs which I haven't watched but you might find be useful:
The TLDR is that you can do "export mygame.html" to get two files, a .html file and a .js file. All you have to do is to rename the .html file to "index.html" and zip the two files together. Then when uploading to itch.io mark your game as runnable from the browser and you should be all set! Feel free to ask more questions if you have them!
TYSM!!!
For some reason, I find this type of twin stick better than a mouse
Inspired by a snoutup game "Cave Blast"
Its been a good couple of months since I've played this...I think its time I do the impossible...Play the game with only a pistol
I'll add some rules if people want to do this I guess-
You can only use the pistol for the whole game (I recommend using the pigeon) and if you run low on ammo you can still kill enemies so no ammo won't be a problem
1- Stick with the pistol (ALWAYS)
2- Choose pigeon (since they start with pistols)
3- You CANNOT choose another gun beside a pistol
4- feel free to reset a run if it doesn't go well (no penalties)
Sounds like fun! Good luck!
haha- thanks!
I wish i could see what weapons each bird had.
Good idea ! Thanks for the idea
pov: USA
I see blazing beaks
Me like
died meleeing a robot on cart 6...
great game yolwoocle, hope it gets a switch release!
You'll get it next time!! Thanks for playing!! :)
That is awesome!!!
I love this game! I played it during my entire 8th grade year (last year, so people don't feel old)
That's awesome! I'm amazed that you played it for so long! Did you finish the game?
not yet, I'm trying new strats (especially with Duck and Chicken) I want to do a "pistol only" run. Hopefully I finish this my freshman year
Please tell me if you ever manage to do it!
you got it!
One of my favorite Pico-8 games! Thank you for making it :)
Hey! I'm glad you liked our game! :D
Hi!
My name is Paul, and I am Game Publish Account Manager for RedDeerGames.
I would like to talk about possible cooperation with you. Could you give me an e-mail adress I could use to contact you?
Best,
Paul
paul@reddeer.games
www.reddeergames.com
Toucan play at this pun game. This game is so ducking good, it would be hard to fowl it. The artwork is eggcellent and the gameplay is certainty not bor-wing. The idea is clawsome and the difficulty is pheasant. This game is pige-on top of the pecking order and is probably made with dove.
Thank you for your dove-ly comment. If you want a sneak peck at the tailented development flock, I can assure you that we were on beak performance and we are ready to take this to the nest level. We wouldn't disappoint; we have bigger fish to fly. Your comment did not tail to make owl of us happy.
This game is awesome, immediately caught my eye and was so fun to play! I went through the things and I might have missed it, but I was wondering what font do you guys use for this game?
Glad that you enjoyed our game! We're using the PICO-8 engine, and the font doesn't really have a name, but someone made a .ttf out of it here!
Thank you mucho for the fast reply <3 stay awesome
Nice game
And by the way, these bird icons are stunning impressive in their minimalism!
Thank you very much for your kind words! :)
And don't forget me, I just love birds :-) And I'm also a big fan of pixel graphics!
We have some common points! :)
"Mess with the flock you get the glock" might just be the single greatest tagline for a game I've ever seen. As a fellow bird lover, this is the best game featuring birds I've ever played 10/10 quality
I love birds too! I'm glad you loved our game :)
Hi! We're already potentially working with someone else, but you can still contact me, my email is on my website: https://yolwoocle.github.io/
Really adorable fun little game! I suck to much to beat it (I keep getting to around wagon 4 or 5 and then dying) but I absolutely love the pixel art and gameplay/the little tune that repeats. I really love birds, so that certainly helps in making it even more enjoyable! Great work all of you. :-)
Thank you so much! I love birds too :)
You are super welcome! Nice to meet another bird fan :-)
"Mess with the flock you get the glock" is the best tag-line ever.
Thanks, I wish I could say I came up with it, hahaha
Love it. Thos are some really cool birbs, huh
Thank you so much! :D
I don't mind the player's weapons being inaccurate. But it doesn't work for the enemies, they need the accuracy buffed. it's easier to dodge a bullet if you know exactly where it will go. shots that whiff you don't work well with these controls.
I understand, this is something we had not considered. Thanks for the feedback, it's very valuable to us!
Hello StarDragon, what happened to your game The Shark's Bathhouse? I really liked the game and I just found out its gone.
brilliant. the mugshots are genius. action is great. really well done.
The game was really made with Pico-8 ? This look impressive. If yes, i didn't know you could export them for windows & linux.
Thanks! Yep, doing `export mygame.bin` will give you a folder with binaries for all 3 platforms, and a Raspberry Pi version. PICO-8 can run on basically anything!
That's cool. All versions of pico do that or only the most recent ?
All. Maybe not the really old ones, but it's been like this for a long time when I started using PICO-8 a year ago.
Thank you for the information.
are there actual names for the enemies or no, because i call the regular enemies "waddle-dees", the foxes "Foxes", the bug things "Bugs", the bushes "Potts", and the robots "Terminators"
Actually no! The internal names, in the code, don't make much sense as we named them before they even had a design or sprite. Here they are, (it's not their "official" names):
hedgehog, hedgehogbuff, juggernaut, warm (typo of worm), tourelle (turret in french), explosive_barrel, and boss.
I'll let you guess which one is which :P I think it's more fun if you come up with your own names!
here's my guess.
hedgehog=waddle-dee
hedgehogbuff=fox
juggernaut=termanator
warm=bug
toerelle=Potts
Explosive_barrel= i have no idea (This is sarcastic)
boss= The Boss
That is correct! explosive_barrel is the pink bomb.
Basically Blazing Beaks + Nuclear Throne, super fun! Will it release on steam?
Releasing on Steam is suuuper expensive and tedious. But you know, maybe... ;)
Alright nevermind, you've made an excellent job!
Np! Thanks!
no need its fine here :)
Not a fan of the ESDF movement scheme; always been used to WASD movement. Aside from that small gripe, it's a fun little game.
Honestly, if I could change the ESDF movement scheme, I would 1000% do it. Unfortunately, it's part of PICO-8's weird unchangeable quirks, I'm sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Glad you enjoyed the game!
It's okay. I'll use the arrow keys and X to shoot.
Seagull is OP :3
Is this inspired by Monkeys with Guns? Great game btw.
Only subconsciously, but yeah
cool
this game is stupid and i love it.
cool game; its similarity on a basic level to blazing beaks tripped me out, but it plays a lot differently. fun :)
Thanks! :) You're not the first one to point the similarities with Blazing Beaks (which I didn't know existed until pre-release so I couldn't have taken inspiration from it), I'll need to try out this game!