Duckling Game

Experience a laid back puzzle-game where you and the computer take turns controlling a flock of ducklings. Your goal is to keep them alive.

Where it's at:

While the game is in development you can play it for free here on itchIO, down the line there will be a steam/gog version. At that point you'll find the playable demo  here.

Changelog:

until 2022.01.23

• everything else

2022.01.23:

• Added  Camera Framing based on Points-of-Interest
• Made Depth-of-Field blur follow the "Player"/Ducklings

2022.01.30:

• Fixed Camera Framing
• Added a better Skybox.. AND CLOUDS!
• Made everything more pastel-y for the default theme materials

2022.02.03:

• Added Ducklings Flock AI

2022.02.05:

• Each time you die, you loose a duckling now!
• Made the Flock size changable (add/remove ducklings)
• Made a Duckling-tile, where you can pick up a duckling
• Tile interactions are now visible (pickup duckling, take key, open lock, run into buzz-saw...)
• Improved the "stuck detection"
• Spruced up the UI Icons a little

2022.02.11

• Added Bush Tile, where ducklings can hide in
• Created Winter Theme for later levels (which brings the game to a whopping 10.4mb)
• Added a little Trail to the ducklings

2022.02.12

• Redid the Camera-framing to accommodate the turn order at the bottom
• Made themes switchable while playing a level

2022.02.15

• Added Tile Indicators, showing when it's your turn and where you can move
• Created a basic Menu structure
• Implemented very early draft of Sandbox level editor

2022.02.17

• Sparkly Sand
• Settings/Options Menu
• Duckling speed.. aka teleportation

2022.02.21

• JSON serialization for Levels
• Testing out some Neumorphics for the Menus
• Added Title screens to levels
• Added Touch-drag to move your flock
• Changed Tile-indicators to le dots

2022.02.25

• Added Day/Night mode
• Added Level-build/intro  animation(s)

2022.02.27

• Replaced the Flock with a single Duckling [F]
• Threw out Pathfinding entirely

2022.03.02

• Created direct transitions between levels!
• Created Command queue for Player input!! If you have 3 turns you can hit your 3 keys all in one go and the duckling will execute one by one :) This makes it feel so much better!
• Performance optimizations when un/loading levels for smooth transitions

2022.03.03

• New Camera System able to deal with the level transitions
• More Optimizations for level loading

2022.03.04

• Added some sounds to the grow/shrink animations

2022.03.05

• Every time you die, a flower grows
• Procedural little Grass tufts here and there