Shutterbug
Shutterbug is a bug photography game about the joy of going out into the woods and discovering pleasant little critters.
One of your parents broke your favourite camera, but they've made you this new one that is built to scale! Show them the joy of the micro world, and maybe they'll find bugs a bit less nasty!
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Controls
Resize and move this browser window around your screen to look around the scene, and change to portrait, square or landscape photos.
We recommend you play this game in a separate browser window on your main monitor.
Shutterbug is desktop only.
Design & code: Rianna Suen
Design & art: Dan Emmerson
Sound: Dan Pugsley
Made for GMTK Game Jam 2024
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The browser window becoming a camera frame is an unexpected and amazing idea! 📸 And the insects are so realistic and wonderful… It is a very fun game experience, meow~! 🐱
it took a bit to figure out the controls but this game is so fun and unique!!
Doesn't seem to work on Linux/Firefox/Wayland. Maybe this game has bugs?
This was fun to play! Here are my two fav photos I took!!!
LOVE THE GAME MECHANICS !! such a fun short game, thank you for the experience :D
This was really fun! Really interesting game mechanic too!
i wish i coud download it
this is the cutest and coolest thing i've ever played! i love BUG!
M I T E
it was so cool :000 i had so much fun!
Today I saw something new, it's cool!
This is a cool idea, but I hate how the browser is aware of its position on the desktop. I have no idea how we've allowed browsers to leak as much system information as we have...
WOW I am blown away by the inventiveness of these mechanics! It made me so happy to see all my photos at the end too
Doesn't seem to work in Edge. Is this a known issue?
Worked on Edge for me
really love everything about this!! brilliant work from everyone!
This is insanely impressive, gameplay was overall fun and made me happy. Whilst gameplay was short (its a gamejam so that's irrelevant) I was fascinated by the mechanics the game focused on with recognising the position of the browser window and orientation.
Mind was blown.
Loved it! I don't know how you managed to do it in the browser but well done 🤯
Visual are beautiful, and I love the detail of the focus blur.
One minor critic: I was a little frustated by not being able to take the photo myself, ajust the framing and all. But I understand it may have made the controls more complex.
What a creative design!
How do I move the camera? Moving the window doesn't do anything.
This is really cool!
incredible work! so creative
Incredibly creative.
A relaxing and highly creative game with a lot of agency. I also enjoyed reviewing the photos at the end of each level. Well done! :3
Wow, this is an amazing idea! Very well executed. The art is also very beautiful. Well done!
PS. I'm curious how did you identify that I'm dragging my browser without resizing it.