Benedict Beaver the Builder

• 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."