Mini Beasts

A minibeast is a small invertebrate creature, like an insect, spider, or snail. Technically, frogs are not minibeasts, because they have bones, but I like frogs, so they are in the game.

Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 56 (theme: "Tiny Creatures".)

This game should work on smartphones! Please let me know if you run into any issues.

How to play

• To move a creature, click on it and then click where you want it to move. Each creature has its own unique movement pattern.
• A ladybug can walk in any number of spaces horizontally or vertically.
• A spider moves diagonally.
• A snail can move forwards and backwards relative to the direction it is facing.
• A stag beetle can move forward and backwards, and can push one other creatures along with it as it moves.
• A frog jumps two spaces forward and one over, like a chess knight.
• Blue creatures start on red spaces, and red creatures start on blue spaces. To complete a puzzle, move all the blue creatures to blue spaces and the red creatures to red spaces.
• There are 16 levels total.
• Z to undo, R to reset, M to mute. There are also buttons at the top of the screen for these functions, as well as a button to enable little flags in the corner of tiles if for whatever reason you can’t tell the colors apart.
• To delete your save file, press X then W then refresh the page.

Tools used

• Graphics: Aseprite
• Game engine: zucchinibread.js, my browser game engine
• Level design: Tiled + ulvl
• Sound effects: mouth + fingers + guitar + Audacity
• Music: Ableton Live + Keyzone Classic + alto saxophone
• Font design: Fontstruct