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

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Authorsvividfax, Dan Emmerson
GenreSimulation
Made withp5.js, Processing
Tags2D, bugs, camera, Casual, Hand-drawn, nature, photography, Short, Singleplayer, wildlife
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
InputsMouse

Comments

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Doesn't seem to work in Edge. Is this a known issue?

really love everything about this!! brilliant work from everyone! 

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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.

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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

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Incredibly creative.

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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

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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.