Blank The Duck
Type "start" and hit enter to call the duck.
They said it couldn't be done, but I've done it. I've taken the actual, real-life experience of encountering a duck and made it digital, for the Internet.
Type in any verb you can think of, and see what happens. There are 300 possible encounters, and more added all the time. How many can you find?
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Not sure where to start?
Words are tough sometimes! Maybe try...
LOVE
PET
SLICE
FINISH
CELEBRATE
DARE
DESTROY
ATTRACT
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Music by Ryan Cullinane.
Duck sounds made by my mouth. UI SFX from FreeSound.org
Everything else by me, Shawn Bowers.
Made for the Blackthornprod GAME JAM #3 with the theme "Less Is More." I applied the theme two ways: mechanic and aesthetic. For mechanic, the "less" of the only gameplay being typing a single word produces the "more" of 300+ possible responses. For aesthetic, keeping the UI as simple as possible and the duck abstracted with simple animations lets the text be king.
Development log
- The duck's alive!Jan 29, 2021
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Word ideas (reply)
Can, put the duck in a can.
Buy, you get the duck from a store.
i got VERY far, 187 verbs, then the game glitched out and now there aren't any words on the screen at all
the fact that #69 i chose was "Date the Duck" and then it said I made out with it is funny af
You should make it so after you 'name' the duck and call it Terry you can type in Terry the duck for a response
Good call. I’m early stages of fleshing this out into a fuller game where you can complete some story missions or have responses that build on each other, feels like it could fit in nicely.
funny how the best ways to kill the duck are the most indirect.
Click this text to
cheatget some help.98 so far!!! Oh lord this is hard
IM STUCK AT 99 I AM OUT OF IDEAS
My computer restarted... im back at 0...
could you make a save option T^T
THE DUCK IS PRESIDENT. OH NO.
i ate the duck
Amazing, I got about 54 interactions
clever game ! cute duck, nd smart replies :]
If you knew anything about duck autonomy, you wouldn't want to do this
Amazing idea, perfect for the theme and the duck sounds are just wonderful!
Such a cool game love it
Really creative! I can't imagine how long it took to write all the scenarios!
Very funny and cool!!
I can't continue after I get the "A wild duck approaches" message. I see another word overlapping that message that says THE DUCK.
Then I see the PRESS ENTER message down below, but I'm stuck in there.
Hmm...I just tried to recreate the issue in Chrome but I'm not seeing it. Out of curiosity, what browser were you using? I can do some digging.
Google Chrome.
I just started to hit Enter key too many times. (Although it might be my mistake, there can always be some fixes for stupid people like me LOL).
Let me try it again...
Ah, I see what you're talking about, pressing enter a bunch at the start sends you into a weird black hole. Looking into a fix for it now, thanks for the heads up!