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A jam submission

ShutterbugView game page

Bug photography simulator
Submitted by vividfax, Dan Emmerson (@DoodleDemmy) — 1 hour, 34 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Top Marks#1n/an/a
Creativity#104.6324.632
Overall#694.2634.263
Enjoyment#3253.8953.895
Style#3444.2634.263

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
In Shutterbug you change the size, scale and dimensions of the browser window to focus and zoom your new camera and take photos of bugs!

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

wow oh my god i never saw a game like that before, i wish this was one of the winners

Submitted(+1)

Wait, you can do THAT in a web page!? This is really impressive. Not only being able to use the windows size in the game, but also reading its position to make the world looks fixed (based on the monitor resolution perhaps?), and have a blur effect to change the focus, updating the ambiant sound… It's a great technical accomplishment, but also such an amazing attention to aesthetic details. The game looks and feels gorgeous, I'm surprised how well it captures the sensation of looking at small aspects of the world in different scales. This is one of my favorite entry! You did a fantastic job. 

Submitted

It's the most unusual game, that i see. I'm so sorry, for that i late to rating that game.

Submitted

i love macro photography and the fact that you choose such a unique concept for your game, its amazing. Love the aesthetic and art and was implemented near perfectly. Good game and awesome job. 

Submitted

Wow, this is such a neat way to simulate photography! I didn't even know you could use window positioning like this, very creative. Beautiful art as well -- definitely one of the most unique games I've played.

Submitted

Cool game. I like it aesthetically and theme wise, as a bug photo enthusiast. It is neat features that you can check your photos in the end. Use of browser window in gameplay is also clever.

Submitted

So creative, I love it! A great idea,  perfectly crafted into a cozy, polished experience! 

Submitted

Insanely creative answer to brief! I didn't even know this was possible. The art is so lovely too 

Submitted

Really cool idea executed very well! Great entry, really enjoyed it.

Submitted

Nice concept, good bokeh :D It was really nice how making the window smaller meant having less depth of field. As a photography enthusiast I enjoyed this!

For a multi monitor setup it looks like the game is using the left-most monitor only (at least under Linux). So if everything is black, just move the window to the left until it isn't ;)

Submitted

Love the theme interpretation, very meta! Such a unique concept. I did have to switch to Firefox to be able to move the camera around but that’s probably an issue on my side haha

Submitted

Really nice game, maybe my favourite so far. Neat concept and great execution.

Submitted

This game needs to win. It definitely deserves it! What in insanely unique concept and I can see an infinite ways the gameplay can be expanded on. Thanks guys for such a treat!

Submitted (1 edit)

This is an amazing idea, I didn't know that this was even possible! I may be getting a bug or don't fully understand the window aspect ratio mechanic but I was unable to get a photo of the moth, it's likely the latter! I just tried playing again and showing my wife and I totally misunderstood and this was a really cool little game! 5 stars! 

My wife says: Adorable graphics and really fun game. Love the scaling aspect, how creative! Played it all the way through and love that you can save your little photos too!

Submitted

The only thing, it wasn’t that obvious that you have to scale your browser window in appropriate size that is valid for photo

Submitted

My favorite game so far! Such clever mechanics implementation! And beautiful style!

Submitted

I love this a lot. Didn't think this was possible. You also took the extra step by adding blue and window sizing challenges (taking landscape vs. portrait). I hope to make a photography game one day so this is great inspiration. Amazing job!

Submitted

very creative and intuitive also cool bugs

Submitted

this is HELLA creative, awesome use of the theme here