Pernilles blog: Nordic Game Jam

Lonely birds

Here are some photos from the picture i made with my group ad Nordic Game Jam 2008.
The Theme was "taboo", and we decided to make a game about lonelyness.

Your avatar is this bird, whos feeling very lonely.
When you'r lonely it can be hard to get in contact with other people, because you can't read and understand the social code, the the gorup you would like to connect with, undertands.

The plan was to make it like, when the bird approches some other birds, you shoukd be fast to tast a codeof symbols, and If you failed, you couldn't be a part of the group.

We made the game for an OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), wich you can see in the picture under this text.
read more about it: http://laptop.org/ - its really cool.

We couldn't do all our ideas in one weekend, so now our game works like this:
You need to get the other birds attention. Your doing that by, standing in front of them and wait (hope they are not turning the other way). It is actually kind of hard.
The more attenttion you gets, the more your mood will be better.
If you don't get attention, you'll get really sad and lonely.