#boid

Boids

Name: Boid

Debut: Boid

This is Boid. And what is Boid? I don't know! Not the slightest idea. Nobody in the universe talks about Boid. But I want to talk about Boid. And we will discover... together ✨

So what do we have to work with? Green... round... bulging eye... large foot... all signs point to Frog. But oh, no. Not frog. Not frog at all!

See, here's Boid from the front! Just one eye in the middle, and just one FOOT in the middle, like some kind of wind-up hopping toy. Boid is no creature of this earth! If you ever encounter Boid in real life, you are about to get roped into a zany adventure of galactic proportions!

Let's look at the title screen of Boid's game, for the ZX Spectrum. What information can we glean here? Besides the credits and related information, there is one word that stands out. That word is "Boid". Let's add that to our list of clues!

THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT BOID

Boid

Now we're getting somewhere! The title screen imagery shows us Boid about to go up some stairs to a tower, stairs that are surrounded by all manner of freak. Are they friend or foe? That's an easy question. I don't think Boid has any friends in this world, unfortunately!

So, the game itself. What is Boid (game) all about? Is it any good? The answer to both of those questions is "no". It's a platformer for a system that does NOT run platformers well one bit, and it's extremely hard beyond that! This screenshot is hard to make out with the background details that are the same colors as the actual characters, but that is an enemy in that cramped passage between the green and red floors, and the only way to dodge it is to depend on one block that flickers in and out of existence. This is the first screen of the game! I probably failed about eleven times, and was told by Boid to TRY HARDER NEXT TIME a few times. I'm trying, Boid! I'm trying my best! Be nice!!!

Genius slammed right into my window pretty hard, but he doesn't seem overtly injured. Wings folded straight and legs were appropriately wiggly. I believe he just stunned himself pretty bad.

^Idiot Baby Recovery Jail^

I'm leaving him in this big flower pot for now. It's in a shady bush under my eves, so he should be plenty safe and it's wide open enough that he can leave when he rests up.