Make resting birds fly off when touched and settle back one by one

Birds on a branch in the corner of a puzzle screen make it feel alive, and a tap near them should startle them. If they all leave in the same frame they look like a sticker peeling off; if they come back by teleporting, the magic is gone. Here is a schedule that spreads the reaction and the return.

Why this works

Where a bird is depends only on how long ago the scare happened, so nothing has to be remembered from frame to frame. Pausing, slow devices and replays then all show the same flock, and the wave of reactions looks natural.

When not to use it

Not for birds that the player steers, hunts or that react to many different things at once. Their path then depends on the player's choices, not on one fixed scare, so keep a running position for them instead.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 46 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Make resting birds fly off when touched and settle back one by one" (read_entry birds-scatter-in-a-wave-and-come-back-to-their-perches) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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