Funny Game Pigeon Characters
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Week 2 of the devlog! This week has a been a weird week for me - I quit my job!!! So, I've kinda been focusing on other things and to be honest with you, I haven't really done as much work on my game as I would have liked to. It's not the end of the world, and don't get me wrong, I've done work and everything, but just a head up, there's not as much there as I probably would have liked :-)
This week has been focused on the ~bird book~. I've got a mechanic where when you hold a bird, you unlock info about it in a bird book, pokedex kinda thing, so you can learn about the new friend you just made. My job this week was to figure out what it would look like!! The way it's gonna work is pretty simple - there's a little book in the corner, and when you click it you can see a page in a book with all the birds you've held (or haven't held yet). If you click on the picture of a bird you've held, the book will flip open to a different page, showing some special info on that bird, and maybe a picture of the first time you held it. Clean my mac hacked. I'd also really like to put in some useless stats, like a pokedex kinda thing, just because I think it'd be funny. I hope that made sense?
The first thing I had to do was decide what I wanted the bird book to actually look like. I'm not really an artist, so I lean pretty heavily on inspiration when coming up with stuff like this. Someone suggested that I look at real bird books, so that seemed like a pretty good place to start - the layout of bird books is really nice!
- Walter and Clay Pigeon are two pigeons who talk to Barnaby B. Busterfield III, whom they annoy. Walter is the male pigeon and Clay is the female. Neither of them manages to say complete sentences without each other's help. Walter is performed by Tyler Bunch and James Kroupa, while Clay is performed by Heather Asch.
- The “Is this a pigeon?” meme has been around for almost a decade, though it’s only gained widespread popular use in the last couple of years. The image comes from the 1990s mecha anime, The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird, in which a human character not familiar with Earth incorrectly identifies a butterfly as a pigeon.
The one on the left by John Busby for Looking at Birds; an Antidote to Field Guides is great I think - the sketches are so lovely and the birds have a good roundness to them. I also loved the right one, by Richard H. Pough (Audubon Land Bird Guide, copyright by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City), because of the layout! I love the idea of setting the birds up in their natural environment , and this right image inspired me a fair bit in my quick mock up's of what the book should look like.
I did a few mock up's of what I wanted the main page to look like, but this is the one that really stuck. I want the different pigeons to all look different depending on a personality trait - for example, the scruffy pigeon likes to hang out around the trash. I thought this was a really cute way of not only showing the different pigeons in their habitat, it would also be a good way to hint to players where they might actually find some of these birds! Even more, I plan on having the different kinds of pigeons appear throughout the day at different times, so having the layout like this is also a good way to hint to players when certain pigeons might appear. Eg. The bird sleeping on the chair is definitely a night bird and hates mornings.
When I play games, I love to try and guess the personality of the different characters. When the game writes or designs these characters to account for those personalities, I find it super compelling!! The pigeon personality and getting players to really consider how each bird acts has been a pretty important thing for me when thinking about not only the bird book, but nearly all interactions the players have with the pigeons. I think maybe I'm getting a little off topic, but anyway you get the point - bird personalities are important :-)
You can also see in the corner of the picture a little scribble of an idea about how the book UI would actually work. I think I'm going to actually make a book, just out of planes with sprites on them (being the pages). When you open up the book (by pressing a button), it just loads in or enables the gameobject. When you want to read a description about a bird, the game literally turns the 'pages' of the book to the right one with the bird description. Having the bird book look and act like a real book is pretty important to me (it's charming!!), and this seems like a relatively straightforward way to do it without having to worry about complicated animations :-o
I really like the idea of having the birds just be a silhouette in the scene, and when you unlock them (by holding them), you get to see the full image of the bird. Catz on the Gameboy Advance was actually a pretty good inspiration for this, I like the way you can see a snippet of the cats to buy later in the game, but can't see too much. It adds a pretty good 'suspense' to the game and really keeps you playing. What the bloody heck does a brown tiger cat look like? I gotta know!!! Side note, if you're into pet games and also into grinding for specific personality traits, you should play Catz on the gba!!!!
Anyway, that's where I got lots of the inspiration for the book look. Here's a real quick sketch I made of maybe what I want the scene to look like. This week I didn't want to finalise the page layout, I just really wanted to get an idea of what I wanted to do, and mock up something I could put quickly into the game. The coloured birds are just where I'm gonna put actual silhouettes of the birds - instead of drawing all birds into the background image, I'm gonna add the silhouettes and bird pics in as sprites once I get the book in the game, as I think it's gonna save me some work and make things a little simpler.
So that's it! There wasn't much technical work this week - mostly just conceptualising :-) If you're interested in the more technical stuff, I think there should be much more of that next week, as I'm planning on actually getting the book in the game and working. Thanks for reading!!
This list of fictional birds is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. It is restricted to notable bird characters from the world of fiction. Ducks, penguins and birds of prey are not included here, and are listed separately at list of fictional ducks, list of fictional penguins, and list of fictional birds of prey.
Literature[edit]
- Louis, a trumpeter swan in E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull from the novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- The Dodo in Alice in Wonderland, fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll; in the 1951 film by the same name, the dodo is named Jim and he burns down the White Rabbit's home
- Billina, in numerous Land of Oz books by L. Frank Baum
- Grip, a raven, companion to the younger Barnaby Rudge in Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens. The character of Grip inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem, 'The Raven'.
- Moses the raven represents the Church in George Orwell's Animal Farm
- Quoth, a raven in the works of Terry Pratchett (a pun on 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe)
- Margalo, a canary from Stuart Little
- Captain Flint, Long John Silver's parrot in Treasure Island
- Lory, in Alice in Wonderland, fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll
- Parrot Polynesia, in Dr. Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting
- The Jubjub Bird from Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky'
- The Roly-Poly Bird from Roald Dahl's children books The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits
- Fawkes in Harry Potter
Comics[edit]
- Booker, a yellow chicken in U.S. Acres
- Roy, a rooster in U.S. Acres
- Sheldon, an unhatched chick egg, in Jim Davis' Garfield and Friends and U.S. Acres comic strips
- Matthew, Dream's raven in the DC Comics Sandman series
- Shoe, a grumpy, cigar-smoking purple martin from Shoe
- Big Eggo, an ostrich in The Beano
- Woodstock, a yellow canary in the Charles M. Schulz's Peanutscomic strip
Folklore[edit]
- The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs, a fictional bird of Aesop's fables and other folktales
- Mother Goose, a goose in the Mother Goose and Grimm stories
- The six brothers turned into birds in German fairytale The Six Swans, collected by the Brothers Grimm
- The Swan Maiden, a magical bird who turns into a beautiful woman in several folktales
- The eleven siblings cursed by their queenly stepmother in The Wild Swans, a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
- Sukh-Shari, a bird pair from Thakurmar Jhuli that also appear in Rupkatha's Bengali fairy tales
- Hugin and Munin, two ravens of Odin in Norse mythology and fictional works based thereon, such as American Gods and Valhalla
- The Firebird, a figure in Slavic folklore. The Firebird has been the subject of a number of fairy tales, and notably inspired Igor Stravinsky's 1910 ballet The Firebird.
- Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Little, a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end.
Animation[edit]
- Ace, a male yellow parakeet and coprotagonist in Powerbirds
- Alcor, Professor Ursula's pet crow familiar in the anime series Little Witch Academia, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker in the English dub.
- Aracuan Bird, a pink guinea fowl in various Walt Disney cartoons
- Buzby, a yellow bird of unspecified species in advertisements for British Telecom in the late 1970s/early 1980s
- Canary, growing small and large in Tex Avery cartoon King-Size Canary
- Chanticleer, a rooster from Rock-a-Doodle
- Chicken from Cow and Chicken
- Chicken Boo, a six-foot-tall chicken in Animaniacs
- Clara Cluck, a female dancing hen in various Disney cartoons
- Dab in Ice Age
- Diablo, Maleficent's raven, in Disney's animated version of Sleeping Beauty
- Edie Von Keet, a female parakeet and one of the main characters in Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own
- Flit, a hummingbird in Disney's Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
- Foghorn Leghorn, a chicken in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
- Gandy Goose, a goose in Terrytoons
- Gogo Dodo in Tiny Toon Adventures
- The Goodfeathers, a trio of pigeons in Animaniacs
- Goodnight Kiwi, the title character of Goodnight Kiwi
- Gus Goose, a goose in Disney's Donald Duck cartoons
- Harvey Beaks from the show of the same name.
- Heckle and Jeckle are magpies that appear in Terrytoons cartoons
- Homer Pigeon, a pigeon in Walter Lantz
- Iago, a parrot in the animated Disney film Aladdin
- José Carioca, a parrot in The Three Caballeros
- Leafie, the titular character in Leafie, A Hen into the Wild
- Little Beeper, Road Runner's student in Tiny Toon Adventures
- Lord Shen, an leustic peacock who is the main antagonist in Kung Fu Panda 2
- Madame Upanova the Ostrich from the 'Dance of the Hours' segment of Fantasia
- Master Crane, a black-necked crane in Kung Fu Panda
- Mithu, Meena's pet rose-ringed parakeet in Meena
- Mordecai, a blue jay in Regular Show
- Mr Ping, a Chinese goose in DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda
- Panchito Pistoles, a Mexican rooster in The Three Caballeros
- Peep, a chick who is curious in Peep and the Big Wide World
- Phobos and Deimos, Rei Hino's pet crows that live at the shrine with her
- Pingu, a penguin who appears in Pingu
- Polly, a female blue parakeet and coprotagonist in Powerbirds
- Princess Odette, a human with a curse that turns her into a swan during the day in The Swan Princess
- Raven, an unnamed raven that is the pet and familiar to Grimhilde the evil queen/old witch in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; was later used for the inspiration for Diablo Maleficent's pet raven familiar in the 1959 Disney Animated film Sleeping Beauty
- The Road Runner (a roadrunner) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
- Roya, Princess Samira's pet peacock who appears in the Nick Jr. animated CGI series Shimmer and Shine.
- Scuttle, a seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid
- Shirley McLoon, a female loon in Tiny Toon Adventures
- Superchicken, a heroic chicken in Jay Ward
- Tweety, a canary in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
- Wattoo Wattoo, an oval-shaped black and white bird in Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird
- Willy, a sparrow and main character in Willy the Sparrow
- Woody Woodpecker, in the Walter Lantz cartoons
- Yankee Doodle Pigeon in Hanna-Barbera's Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
- Zazu, a hornbill from The Lion King
Mascots[edit]
- Syd 'Swannie' Skilton, swan mascot of the Sydney Swans
- Sebastian the Ibis, the mascot of the University of Miami
- Olly, a kookaburra who is one of the mascots of the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Rowdy the mascot for The University of Texas at San AntonioRoadrunners
- Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, mascot for Cocoa Puffs
- Cornelius, a rooster who is the mascot for Kellogg's Corn Flakes
- BJ Birdie and Ace, mascots for the Toronto Blue Jays
- Poe, mascot for the Baltimore Ravens
- Big Red, mascot for the Arizona Cardinals
- Thrasher, mascot of the Atlanta Thrashers
- Seymore D. Fair, the pelican mascot of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition
- Toucan Sam, the cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (US)
- Twitter Bird, the mascot of Twitter
- Weatherbird, the mascot of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; identified as a dicky-bird
Puppets[edit]
- Camilla, Gonzo's romantic interest on The Muppet Show
- Big Bird, a very big canary, and Little Bird on Sesame Street
- Burdette in It's a Big Big World
- Pino, the blue nephew of Big Bird, in Sesamstraat, the Dutch spin-off of Sesame Street
- Abelardo Montoya, a very big parrot, Big Bird's Mexican cousin on Plaza Sesamo
- Meneer de Uil, the narrating protagonist in the Dutch children's series De Fabeltjeskrant
- Emu on CITV
- Ossie Ostrich, a character in the Tarax Show and Hey Hey It's Saturday
Video games[edit]
- The goose protagonist from 2019 video game Untitled Goose Game
- Kazooie, the sidekick in the Banjo-Kazooie series
- Falco Lombardi, character from the Star Fox series
- Aya Shameimaru, a crow from the Touhou Project series, playable in several of the games
- The eponymous protagonists from Angry Birds
- Ivy, a kiwi in Ivy the Kiwi?
- Beat, a robotic bird in Mega Man
Fictional bird species[edit]
- Mockingjay bird, central bird that is part of the Hunger Games trilogy
- Jayhawk, part 'jay' and part 'hawk' this bird is the mascot of the Kansas Jayhawks sports teams and has roots in Kansas lore
- Porgs, a species of penguin or puffin-like birds that live on Ach-To in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Chocobo, a bird in the Final Fantasy series
Other[edit]
Funny Game Pigeon Characters Coloring Pages
- The Radioactive Chicken Heads, a costumed comedy punk rock band mostly made up of mutant chicken characters with backstories developed through the band's music, videos, short films and video game, Badd Bunny Breakout.
- Birdie the Early Bird from the McDonald's commercials