STORK-istics

Another life, another Superexpress baby courier!

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Hello there! 

This is... my first jam after ugh... LOTS of years? It was quite an archivement accomplishing this one while at the same time dealing with that thing called life and so. But I don't want to make you bored explaining those things and let me present my humble game for LeebleJam8 - Topic: Another life .

(Remember to also play the other super great submissions made by other storks... I mean, humans). 

HISTORY!

By United Nations stadistics, around 134 million babies were born each year. That's around 367.000 babies each day! An super-oustanding number!

That amount of birth-rate requires an equal amount of highly qualified storks for deliver all those toodlers ... Beacuse... of course! Babies are delivered by storks, RIGHT?  (Well, not really, but let's not ruin the fun).

Sounds like an easy task, but it wasn't. Complex courier networks and hightly trained storks around the world are required to provide an efficent and safe baby deliver in the door of your home. All of above, done by dedicated stork fleet... 

Come on, and let's get into the life of an aunthentic baby-delivery stork! 

TECHNICAL FEATURES:

• Super 8-bit detailed world map with almost all capitals across the world!
• Real-time weather satellite data everyday!
• Lot's of randomness and improvistion!

HOW-TO-STORK:

• You must travel different cities across the world delivering babies.
• Avoid bad weather, and remember to stop at cities to eat&sleep before running out of energy. 
• Ask people from cities to check how far (or close) your destination is.
• The game will end when you get bored! 

RUNNING THE GAME:

The game is playable from your browser, so just click donwload and have fun! (For technical reasons I could not embed the game in itch.io like other HTML5 based games ...). 

KEYS:

• Keys: Movement
• Enter/Z/Button1: Interact with people/storks/menus and enter cities.
• Game is touch friendly if you want to play in one of those strange devices!

CREDITS:

• This game uses daily-updated satellite weather info, provided by modified EUMETSAT data /https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps - CC0 1.0 Universal
• Engine by RPG Maker 2003 1.12a / ManiacsPatch / EasyRPG Player 0.8. 
• Citizens - Modified from GloopMaster / CharasProject, under CC BY-NC 4.0
• UI- Modified from Sabin / Master / CharasProject, under CC BY-NC 4.0
• Music-  Filippovicarelli.com, under CC BY 4.0
• All the rest made by myself unless I forgot something/made a mistake. Under WTFPL. 
• Storks by storks. I asked those for licenses, but they wanted seeds instead.

FAQ:

Why you didn't included my city? :(

Well, there are over 4 million unique cities and towns from every country in the world. It could be quite difficult to include them all in a jam-game, don't you think?

X city location is soooo inacurrate!

Consider this is just a fantasy game, and all cities are locating with lots of patience by hand. Of course there will be a lot of inexact locations around there and there!

Why is a city called EV????

Well, that's actually a bug hehe.

There is a download version of the game?

Actually not, as the world map is updated everyday with live weather data. So, it needs to be live on the web. 

After the tutorial, and Now loading screen, screen goes black and game stuck. What should I do? 

Some early versions of the game had an issue with the engine that did not recognized well the world map for some reason. It shouldn't happen anymore, but just in case, clear the cache for elsemieni.net and retry! :)

I don't like the fact you included XYZ city in your game.

I dunno pal, storks doesn't care about politics :)

What do you mean with I AM ERROR ?

Aaah, it's just an easter egg :) 

What did you had at lunch yesterday?

Rice with salted mushrooms, chicken and salads!