SKEIN
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Action. Free; pay what you want.
SKEIN is a game, free to play in the browser, pay what you want.
Lead a skein of geese south through one night. You start alone in the dusk. Somewhere in the clouds the others are calling. Find them, one by one, and bring them into the line. When the skein is whole, the night breaks open into the flyway: wind rivers, headwind fronts, a storm over the coast, and at dawn, the sea. The front bird works hardest.
The birds behind it draft in its wake and get their strength back, but only while they hold the line. So fly smooth, beat your wings on the pulse of the music, and hand over the lead before the front bird tires. Hand over on the pulse and the change is clean; off the pulse the line breaks for a moment. A goose flown until it is spent comes down to rest, and the skein goes on without it.
One flight is about three minutes. How many of the seven come home is up to you. Made for thatgamejam #02 The jam's theme was a piece of music. We measured its shape and built the game on it: a quiet, sparse opening; a sudden turn where the whole ensemble arrives at once; and a held, unresolved ending. Those are SKEIN's three acts. The music's pulse is the wingbeat.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · pay what you want · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.