The Oven Bird

A short experimental game for Game Maker's Toolkit Jam 2019 "Only One".

This game is based on the poem by Robert Frost,  "The Oven Bird".

The goal of the game is to listen to the whole poem, while juggling the font style with the button "1" or "Numpad 1". "The ball" should touch the sentences only with the same font style activated. "Esc" to restart the game.

Only letters were used as the type of graphical assets in this game. 

Only one poem, only one screen, only one key, only one action to make.

I hope you'll find this little game interesting. Have a good one!

*the poem is in public domain, the font is free to use (Lato), the forest sound is from https://freesound.org/ and the audio version of the poem was made by Windows Narrator app, which is free to use.

Oh, and here's the full text of the poem. 

Robert Frost. "The Oven Bird"

There is a singer everyone has heard,

Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,

Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.

He says that leaves are old and that for flowers

Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.

He says the early petal-fall is past

When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers

On sunny days a moment overcast;

And comes that other fall we name the fall.

He says the highway dust is over all.

The bird would cease and be as other birds

But that he knows in singing not to sing.

The question that he frames in all but words

Is what to make of a diminished thing.