• Textured, hand-drawn 2D art 🎨
  • Playful, hand-crafted music and SFX 🎵
  • Seven unique houses to build 🏠
  • An intro and outro 🎥

  • Left-click logs and drag 'n drop them onto the grid
  • Press "R" while holding a log to rotate the log
  • Press "G" while holding a log to gnaw it shorter
  • Press "M" to return to the main menu
  • Hold "Z" + "U" at the same time while in the main menu to reset the game and return to the intro cutscene!

A game by Playful Plover, with  Jaylus (@roman_hyacinths) on art (read her post-mortem of the jam experience here!),  pleadthefilth on composing and SFX, and Patbug on programming and design.

Made from scratch in four days for GMTK 2024, with the theme "Built to Scale."

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
AuthorsPatbug, PleadTheFilth, Jaylus
GenrePuzzle
Made withAdobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Unity
Tags2D, Animals, Atmospheric, Cute, Game Maker's Toolkit Jam, Hand-drawn, Narrative, Short
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish

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So fun and cute! I also won without the gnaw button, haha. Couldn’t remember/figure out where it was for the first few levels but then decided to keep going with the challenge. The last level was a doozy without gnaw!

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Nice game, also won without using the gnaw button.

I watched a friend win the game without using the gnaw button and was in awe haha; great work and ty for playing!

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nice cozy, relaxing game! and it was fun!

Thank you for playing!!

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Just Beautiful!

Thank you!!

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I can't believe you managed to pack such charm and style into just one game, the mechanics are INCREDIBLY polished, and I loved the little letters too! You really fleshed out this small animal world!

Aww, thank you so much for playing and leaving such a nice comment! 

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This is such an adorably sweet game! Very well done! It deserves it's spot among the best!

Thank you so much! Super appreciate you taking the time to play!

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Such incredible work for a jam result! Congratulations on reaching top 100!

Thanks so much for the kinds words! 💕

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it was an honor to help the citizens of birch grove

thank YOU for helping them! 🫡