Tips if you get stuck

  • No bugs left? Hit the BUG button
  • Button does nothing? You needed to zap more bugs or water the plant more
  • Find all three endings, including a special game over message, and two final cutscenes

Fauna~otchi 

is a game about smashing bugs, and watering a plant on a silly console.

Health and Safety Warning

The CRT shader effects flash during gameplay.
Those prone to seizures should not play this game.
The game also features insects in situations, that
could trigger those with various phobias.
Viewer Discretion is advised.

Instructions on How to Play

  • Click to Water the Plant, Click to Smash the Bugs
  • Press the Bug Button to Progress (when you can progress)
  • Try to Find all 3 Endings (one of the is Game Over)

Game Jam Team and Credits

Chicken Cognition (Ty)

  • all of the 3d pre-rendered art
  • gameplay design and planning
  • a bunch of cool fun lore ideas

Ellipsis Interactive

schiele_dot_freud

  • noise based game background (sky, grass, and dirt)
  • aesthetic consult for shader tuning

the_dot_matrix

  • most of the fennel coding and the used love/lua libraries
  • gameplay design and planning

groove_dot_shark

  • the idea to use Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg)
  • midi editing and synthesizing of the 4 movement pieces

Licenses

MIT license applies to everything in src/
fennel is licensed under MIT/X11
see other licenses for everything else in lib/

Attributions

All of these should be licensed CC-0, but please support these artists!

Download

Download
fauna~otchi [linux x86_64 AppImage] 7.2 MB
Download
fauna~otchi [windows 64bit Executable] 15 MB
Download
fauna~otchi [.love12 archive] 8.6 MB

Install instructions

Installation (in order of recommended ways to play)

Web Browser

It is highly recommended to play this game on itch.io. It runs at 60fps in Chrome on a 2012 Macbook Pro. You shouldn't have any performance issues. Unless you're using Firefox possibly, without the V8 JS engine.

Linux x64 AppImage

Just download and run the AppImage. Our linux machine is running an out of date Ubuntu LTS due to hardware age. Thus, this image has not been tested, as we have to build love12 from source with a modified GCC-lib version. However, it's just a .love archive appended to the offical AppImage, so it should work without issues, unless your hardware is also old.

Windows

Just download and run the Executable. We tested it and it works fine on multiple windows machines of varying ages.

.love Archive

In order to run a .love archive, you need to have love installed locally on your hardware of choice. This game was made with love 12.0, which has not been offically released yet. You can get an executable for your specific hardware from the LOVE 2d Github You must be signed in to Github to access this link.

Mobile Phones

While it does run on mobile web browsers, I did not have the time to fully debug the shaders used for mobile specifications. If you're okay with some rendering artifacts, it ran at 60fps on my Moto G Power (2020), a very low-end phone, no problems.

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