Heyy!! Thanks for giving it a go!! This was a fun one. Huge challenge. I rly double booked myself with jams and this one overlapped with another. You’re definitely not missing any context, there is no real context haha. Hawk zombie is a streamer who does a lot of indie games and he did a jam where he was supposedly retiring his bird mascot, so the only premise was the green bird must die. I took extreme liberties if anything making the green bird just a conure and not a sentient zombie figure haha. But when I read “the bird dies” my first thought was canary in a coal mine and I ran with that idea.
The bad guys thing is so funny haha. Ur completely correct and I just plumb ran out of time lol. My long long term plan for all of these quicky game jam games is to circle back maybe next year and remake them all one by one in a new engine, im thinking GoDot, and make them perfectly, with no rushing and the like. So for now I forgive myself shortcuts and weird quirks haha.
Self doubt and self worth issues is something (unfortunately) a lot of us creative types struggle with. I’m sorry it resonated, really. For me writing out my issues like this really helps me. Now, quite literally, whenever I’m being too self negative I hear Hawk the streamer go “Bwak Pretty Boy Tweet Tweet” and it makes me smile haha.
Thanks for ur kind words and time!