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Nice game! I like the boppy music and sound effects with the simple graphics. It was very satisfying to pick up multiple things at once even as things got out of hand. 

Maybe it could be expanded as an incremental game where what you picked up could be used to fund more claws/ larger claws/ wacky claws (like an excavator or a vacuum cleaner) and make it even more chaotic :P

Hi, thanks for playing! I'll take note to add different configurations in the future. 

Could I ask what controls you think would be better? Was it the ship or the inventory management that's unintuitive? I think personal preference plays a role since I just tried your game and am not used to arrows + z/x controls (I usually use A/D + spacebar) :P 

(Side tangent: your game was great to play, the character movement felt smooth and juicy even with controls I wasn't used to.  Just to let you know though, I don't think your game's A/D controls work, but the arrows do.)

Thanks for the feedback! 

We have some intention of creating more areas to explore and plants to collect, along with adding some other features. But nothing's set in stone yet as we're taking a break now that the jam is over :)

Thanks!

Interesting story and attempt at the limitation. I got stuck after a while because I didn't know what to do at one of the doors, and there was a bug of some kind where the music stopped completely after I defeated one of the enemies. 

The art for the ground tiles are a little jarring and could use a little less detail but on the flip side the player and character art were very cute. Nice job!

Thanks for the feedback! Glad to know the puzzles were ok, I didn't manage to playtest them during the jam. 

I kind of considered "not having a proper explanation for each mechanic" as the unpredictable part, and once someone understands it, the predictability feeds into the rules but I guess its a very different interpretation.

Yep i initially had the player slide off the wall but doing so created a bug where players could slide over edges and hence jump higher than they should. 

I haven't managed to solve that problem so the movement is like this for now, sorry about that.

Edit for others that sees this comment: I decided to revert to the player sliding over edges of walls. I realised that sliding over edges would feel like much better movement even if the some puzzles can be skipped this way.

Deceptively simple game, but eventually becomes complicated as you realise you are working to keep everything in balance, rather than to keep your animal alive.

Weird tactics I've had to carry out:

• Purposefully throwing myself into  predator as a rabbit
• Rationing by avoiding food when there are way too many bunnies
• Spawn camping rabbits as they appear because I didn't want to kill the last rabbit as a predator

The art and sound were nice, and the game fits very well into the themes of wild and unpredictable rules. Nice job!

Nice game! The graphics and audio were simple but charming, and I managed to finish the game after exploding and somehow coming back from the dead multiple times :). 

If you ever plan to expand on the game, I would suggest having a manual like from "King of the bridge". It would be interesting because it makes every death "useful" by unlocking a new rule, rather than to feed a seemingly endless and gaslight-y book. (So gameplay is less linear)

Nonetheless, great game!

The art and audio were great, I especially liked the parallax images in the background. 

The controls for aiming and dodging were a little finicky, but maybe it's just because I'm used to games allowing players to shoot and move at the same time. I got to the second level but couldn't beat the 3 snipers even after using dodge and slide. 

Great game!

Thanks for playing! 

Wall jumping wasn't intended at all, I thought I had fixed that but apparently not 😅. I'll also look into the notepad bug, thanks for letting me know!

Update for others: I think the notepad and wall jump bugs are fixed :D

The art and music for the game are great, and the controls are very smooth. 

I think I somewhat understand there was a day/ night cycle, and how each plant had different needs, but I have yet to decipher what each symbol meant. Sometimes it is hard to see them against the similarly colored background. It was also nice to explore the area outside the main garden. (A lot of potential for lore :))

I feel like this would make for a nice gardening/ puzzle game but I'm not sure if applying "unpredictable rules" for the symbols was helpful. There isn't much motivation for the player to try and collect as many plants as they can. (A pokedex style encyclopedia/ device for the player to learn more about the plants could be a nice addition) 

Also, this might be a bug but for some reason my cursor has a black square hovering over it that blocks the view a little.

Great job on the game though!

Thanks! Glad to hear the notepad was helpful, considering I put it in for players like myself who would have been lazy to use an actual notepad :P.

Update: I updated a post jam version of the game with 2 more flowers and a longer course, so here's my new high score to beat :D

Very late post jam update: (25/5/2025)

The web version of the game is now v1.9, likely being my last update for this game. (Windows and Mac builds stay as the old v1.8 jam version) The following were added:

• Copy/ paste/ highlight functionality for text, using CTRL-C, CTRL-V 
• Drag and overlay tabs with mouse
• No major content changes but added a notepad with additional hints and tidbits, with small rearrangements in design

The normal flying - I didn't really use the speed boost because normal speed was already hard to control as it is :P

Took me way too long to realise I can go faster by gliding 😔 but afterwards it made it a lot easier to play. The graphics are very cute, and the game concept is pretty unique!

Edit: Forgot to mention, the timer would also disappear after a couple of seconds, which made it hard to tell how much time I had left. (I could somewhat read it from the remaining visible half)

Never thought there'd be a day where I see dapper, yet hangry birds. :P 

I beat the game after many, many tries (score of 2110). The physics and simple graphics made it very satisfying to play. Nice job!

I think the urgency can definitely be increased with more suitable audio on my part. I should probably have made more modes of difficulty and a longer track. 

I was looking at the game more as something casual for those who don't play much 3D games. Those who want to race/ speedrun have the option of maximising their highscore through picking off-path flowers while trying getting home as fast as possible. (In hindsight, this wasn't very obvious)

Thanks for the feedback!

If anyone wants more of a challenge - what is your highscore?

Maximise your score by reaching home as fast as possible + as many flowers as possible (there are 5 in total)

Here's mine: :) 

It's interesting to see the huge difference in feedback ranging from too difficult to too easy hahah, but thanks for playing! 

I see, maybe I should make the option to change mouse sensitivity a lot more obvious :P 

Good to know about the stamina being a problem though, thanks for the feedback! 

Oh this isn't in fullscreen (I wasn't able to) - I just cropped my screenshot to only show the game. Its alright though, everyone else don't seem to be having a similar issue so its probably not a common problem. 

The audio and graphics were great (and very satisfying). It has a lot of potential to be an endless arcade game. The controls were a tad hard because of the huge turning radius but I assume that's the challenge of the game. Great work!

Maybe it's just me  but this was my view of the game:

From the tiny blue portion I think the graphics would have looked great if it weren't for the bug. :)

Tower defence but you can build whatever you want is a very interesting concept though. (But dang that's a lot of nests for a bird :P)

Thank you! :)

Oh ye I initially wanted to implement a way to do tricks too, but realised it was too out of scope for a 3 day jam :P. Would definitely have been a great feature though.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback! 

I'm just curious though - in what way were the controls hard? Was it the mechanic of navigating with a mouse with no control over the speed? Or was it some unrelated factor I could have changed? (So I know how to improve on it :P) 

Glad to hear that! :D

Thanks! Honestly I didn't get enough playtesters so I made the different modes in hopes that one of them was sufficiently balanced 😅

Glad to know that it was a good addition though :D

The race is definitely short (due to my minimal level design skills hahah) but hopefully big enough for exploration if people want to do so :) 

I'll also keep the FOV slider in mind for future 3D games. 

Thanks for the feedback! 

Not sure if its just me but there don't seem to be many birds :P 

I can left and right click to take pictures, but I tried to move the camera with mouse/ WASD/ Arrow keys and none of them do anything. Maybe it's a bug? Or there is some alternate control scheme?

The game is very cute :) 

I'm not very good with music but randomly clicking everything somehow made the result turn out decent hahaha. It's a very interesting mechanic!

The art is incredibly cute, and the trivia puzzles were very entertaining. The fact that most of them were doable with common knowledge made it fun, but statistical questions like "Roughly how many species of birds cannot fly" felt a lot more random in comparison. 

The Imposter Mode made for an interesting mini game but the highlight was definitely the Trivia Mode. Nice job!