Bat Egg

Bat Egg is being released as a free game for anyone to enjoy. You can support its developer on Patreon, or by purchasing one of Cheese's other games.

If you'd like to support Bat Egg's composer, you can find Peter's work on Bandcamp.

Bat Egg allows for some custom content to be loaded from the user data folder. You can access this folder by selecting the Open user folder button in the Settings menu.

Default controls for keyboard and gamepad are as follows (custom bindings can be set from the Controls menu):

• Space or A/Cross - Tap to flap, hold to glide (hold to hang from branches)
• Left - Turn left
• Right - Turn right
• Escape or Select - Close zone intro or summary screens, pause game, or return to main menu
• P or X/Square - Save a screenshot

My hope is that you won't need them, but if you get stuck or want to try specific stuff, there are a few "cheats" in place. To access debug functions, you must enable "debug mode" from the System settings menu.

• T - Give token
• L - Give life
• H - Spawn a hatchling at the last visited nest
• R - Regenerate current level (if generated)
• Shift+R - Regenerate reversed version of current level (if generated)
• V - Skip to next vertical level
• Z - Skip to next zone

Logs, saves, and configuration files can be found in the following locations for each supported platform:

• Linux:

  ~/.local/share/bategg/

  (note that this respects XDG_DATA_HOME)
• Mac:

  ~/Library/Application Support/bategg/

• Windows:

  %APPDATA%/bategg/

Selecting the Open User Folder option from the settings menu will open this location in a file browser.

If you're experiencing troubles, please send a detailed description of what is occurring along with relevant save files and logs to support [AT] jbushproductions.com

Common technical hurdles and how to cross them:

Current known issues:

• None right now! :D

Flap slowly, remember to glide, and practice dismounting branches!

Stamina regenerates slowly when flap/glide is not held down - sometimes short taps can leave you with an extra flap's worth where longer presses wouldn't.

You can control your horizontal movement at any time when flap/glide is held down, making it possible to do flaps that only move you a short distance horizontally.

If you get stuck, you can start a new game from an earlier zone to accumulate spare lives before reaching later levels.

The Gameplay Settings menu offers a range of options for adjustment, including a toggle for turning all branches into nests.