Why did gramps send me this goose? Why is it so angry? Maybe we can become friends?

*Made for Game Boy Showdown 2023!*

Controls:

Up - Up Arrow / W
Down - Down Arrow / S
Left - Left Arrow / A
Right - Right Arrow / D
A - Alt / Z / J
B - Ctrl / K / X
Start - Enter
Select - Shift

Dev Team:

Artist: GottderFrüchte
Composer: Swyka
Developer: BoxOnaCat
Lead Developer: Kotzwinkle

Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Authors	Kotzwinkle, GottderFrucht, devlin_wav, BoxonaCat
Genre	Simulation
Made with	MilkyTracker, GB Studio, Aseprite
Tags	2D, Animals, Funny, Game Boy, Game Boy ROM, goose, Pixel Art, Retro, Slice Of Life
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard

Download

game.gb 256 kB

Development log

Small fix v1.1.1
Jun 27, 2023
More fixes and some new stuff! v1.1.0
Jun 09, 2023
Post-Jam Fixes! v1.0.1
May 28, 2023

Comments

Neighbourhood Snake298 days ago

I love this so much! top goose

Kotzwinkle297 days ago

Much appreciated! I'm glad you liked it!

beta_dynast298 days ago

dialogue is amazing!

Kotzwinkle298 days ago

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with the dragon intro

Snoom299 days ago

dear diary: i made a bear cry today. in all fairness, he had it coming. the mountain belongs to me.

great game :D short but quite well polished, and i love the humour in it. that poor poor postman, he was too young..

i did notice a tiny bug in that when i feed my vicious friend an ice cream and hover the cursor over it, the image breaks into two halves of the exclamation mark. i can only assume the ice cream is panicking at its unavoidable fate. i would too, little ice cream, i would too.

Kotzwinkle298 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Goose truly knows what's best in life.

I'll look into the issue with the food/emote. Thanks for the heads up!

beta_dynast298 days ago(+1)

I had the same thing happen on GBC.

ERIC_MACK326 days ago

Super fun!
I really got a kick out of the dialogue; it's brief but so funny.

I noticed that when I played, the "friend / hunger / rage" notes did not have the placeholder icons like it does in the picture on this itch page. For example, I never saw any yellow goose icons - it was an empty row until I got a red goose head.

I also happened across the debug menu. not sure if that was intentionally left in as an easter egg or not but it added to the chaos which is a plus in my book hahah

Kotzwinkle326 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Hey! Thanks for playing!

Yeah, we were scared that the placeholders would cause confusion and ended up removing them pre-jam.

XD We left the debug menu enabled in case people wanted to skip some battles or see the other ending.

Also, thanks for the heads-up! I'll update the screenshots!

Johndo21329 days ago

I can't download the rom version, even though I've downloaded all the other games in the Jam, am I the only one?

Kotzwinkle329 days ago

Hey! Yeah, I'm not really sure what is up with the file download. I did noticed that it only seemed to throw an error when using firefox. Have you tried downloading with chrome?

Johndo21329 days ago

I'm on firefox actually, I'll switch to chrome thanks for the tip :p

angelarrowmaker328 days ago

in firefox, I found if you close the tab and "reopen closed tab" it starts the download

Johndo21328 days ago

Thanks !

Kotzwinkle328 days ago

Yeah, sorry about that! I really have no idea why firefox is flagging the file. Post-jam I think I will re-export the .gb file via windows to see if that changes anything

shin332 days ago

Great concept! Very cute game.

Kotzwinkle331 days ago

Thanks!

Efire333 days ago

This is insanely awesome! Amazing work

Kotzwinkle333 days ago

Thank you so much! We really appreciate that! We plan on doing a bit more polishing post-jam :)

Radiobob214334 days ago

Rad. Goose. Fun.

Kotzwinkle333 days ago

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!