Ping Bat
Survive as a bat! Use echolocation to hunt insects and dodge trees at night. Find a cave to sleep and avoid hawks during the day.
- Left click to swoop
- Right click to ping
Hunting tip: you can ping several times at once before your ping has to recharge. Make the most of it to find out where to strike, aim and click swoop!
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I'VE NEVER BEEN SO SATISFIED TO POUNCE ON A GODDAMN BUTTERFLY
Loved this! The aesthetic is really cool and the incentive for risking the hawk's wrath to get an extra swoop is great. :D A choice of different perks would be good for extra roguelikeyness. The only issue for me is the lack of ramping difficulty, it seems to get easier over time :)
This isn't a roguelike.
It's a fairly well made arcade game in the vein of asteroids, or geometry wars, but this is in no way, shape, form, function, or reality a "rogue" like.
I'd say it's more Roguelite, yeah. But it has procgen, permadeath, is character-centric, and clean runs. Just missing turn-based.
I wanted to get in some random rewards, but ran out of time. Future feature.
It's neither.
Took a while to get into the rhythm, but I survived eleven nights and got up to five swoops. :D
I don’t think I’ve found every kind of critter and plant yet, but I haven’t noticed any noteworthy differences in them either. Different critters move in different ways, and different plants may or may not be obstacles. If it were any less stressful (or my computer didn’t frame-stutter) I’d love to see how far I can go and explore the area.
The bleeps and bloops and neon outlines remind me of Electroplankton. The dark ground and electric guitar(?) music give it an eerie spin fit for a roguelike. I greatly appreciate this aesthetic.
Woo, nice! Yeah, the performance load is on my mind. I also plan to have some settings that can be adjusted, like low/high environment objects. Glad you like the aesthetic — the music gives me Risk of Rain vibes. :) Thanks for playing!
I made some big performance improvements. Should have much less stuttering.
We were both looking for a meal... but the bird found its meal first >.<