Untitled Bowerbird Game
About
Your quest: collect colorful treasures to decorate your bower and attract a female bowerbird. Venture into the nearby park to seek objects worthy of your design sensibilities.
What sort of game is this?This is a text adventure game written as part of the Adventuron Treasure Hunt Jam. As a treasure hunt game, the player must collect all the treasures and bring them to one place. This happens to be what real bowerbirds do! As a text adventure game, you interact with the world via text descriptions and typed commands. There are no graphics, outside of your mind! The jam rules included an additional restriction that names and descriptions be no longer than two or six words, respectively. That suits a tiny little bowerbird just fine.
CreditsConcept by Ellen Ragheb
Puzzle design by Benjamin & Ellen Ragheb
Programming by Benjamin Ragheb
Sound design by Ellen Ragheb
Cover art based on "in the bower...", photo by doug, shared on Flickr and licensed under CC BY 2.0
Thanks to House House for blazing the trial for games with playable birds and without titles
Special thanks to Bridget Fitzgerald and Curtis Retherford for play testing
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