Nibble
Nibble
Play as a fox stealthily maneuvering through a vineyard, avoiding watchmen, and grabbing all the grapes you can! Use abilities like yipping to distract the watchmen or digging to get around obstacles. Collect all the grapes on each level to win!
But... what does this mean for the vineyard?
Keyboard Controls
- Arrows: Move up, down, left, and right
- X: Yip to distract guards up to 4 tiles away
- Z (hold): Dig to create a tunnel under bushes and fences, but not rocks
- Makes noise 2 tiles away, both where digging an entrance hole and where digging an exit hole, so be careful! However, once the hole is dug, you can travel in and out of the hole without making any noise.
- Press X to get out of a hole before you create an exit hole
Theme Implementation
For CGDC Speedgame: Classic, I chose to base the game on Song of Solomon 2:15:
Catch for us the foxes,
the little foxes
that ruin the vineyards,
our vineyards that are in bloom.
Explaining the implementation is a bit of a spoiler, so I suggest people play the game to experience it before reading below! Here's how I chose to weave this verse into the game:
Theme implementation
While the verse is very poetic in talking about foxes and vineyards in bloom, the meaning behind the verse is how little issues, white lies, and avoiding bringing up small hurts wear away at a relationship, causing damage to it over time with each seemingly insignificant issue and "ruining the vineyards." I wanted this game to be a similar allegory where the player simply plays as a fox grabbing grapes in a vineyard while avoiding watchmen, which seems like a fun retro-style game, but partway through the game the narrative truly begins where each time the fox "ruins" the vineyard by collecting all the grapes, it reflects as a small issue in a relationship that slowly compounds over the course of the game; the narrator says what they really feel, but strikes it out because they dismiss it as insignificant and excuse it away. It's only once the narrator realizes that they need to say something that the player is forcefully caught and the relationship can begin to be restored.Cheats
There are a few cheats in the game in case any level is too difficult.
Cheats
- Ctrl+Shift+: Goes directly to levels 1 through 12. For example, Ctrl+Shift+6 to go to level 6 and Ctrl+Shift+- to go to level 11. Note, Ctrl+Shift+0 does not work on the web and Ctrl+Shift+- and Ctrl+Shift+= make the browser window shrink and grow, which is due to these also being browser shortcuts.
- Ctrl+Shift+\: Instantly wins the level.
Comments
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Yeah this game was fire bro, should release it on mobile. The pick up and play factor is outrageous.
Thank you! It has undocumented gamepad support, so you could play with a Bluetooth gamepad until virtual gamepad support is in place. :)
Standing ovation
Thank you!