Working from home? With all these cute birds outside?

BACKYARD BIRDWATCHING

A little game inspired by me forever getting distracted by birds outside my window when working from home during lockdown. Made for Neighbourhood Jam 2020, using Phaser 3!

How To Play

This is a game you leave running in a background tab whilst you go about other things, whether that's work, social media,  or playing other games.

Every now and then, a new bird will fly into the garden (accompanied with birdsong to let you know!) and you can take a photo of it.

There are 8 bird species in total, and 3 fun little facts for each of them.

There's no winning or losing, I just wanted to create a little taste of nature you could leave in the background for as long as you like.

Changing the Wait Time

You can adjust how long the wait time between new birds arriving is by clicking the little cog in the corner.

• Instant: a couple seconds
• Short: up to 2 min
• Medium: 5 to 10 min
• Long: 10 to 20 min

Keeping the Game Running

Browsers can be a little weird with pausing HTML games. Testing on Chrome, I found that as long as I didn't change tab from the game (opening separate windows is fine), the game still runs!

Credits

Programming, design and background art by me.

Bird pixel assets were adapted from the awesome cute little set at: https://opengameart.org/content/lpc-birds (all but the sparrow were adapted by me)

Birdsong recordings were from this amazing resource: https://www.xeno-canto.org/. All the songs you hear are recordings of that particular species! The recordings I used were: 571251, 514130, 548289, 571303, 516370, 561097, 548473, 560862. (I did a little trimming and noise removal here and there)

Camera shutter noise is from: https://opengameart.org/content/camera