MOSSAIC 

A cosy, tile-based ecosystem building game.

Place land tiles on the board to earn points and provide homes for a diverse cast of animals. Place habitat tokens on tiles to attract critters which boost your score and change the tiles around them. As you discover more tiles and more creatures, you'll add more tiles to your bag. See how many points you can earn before you run out of tiles!

In Mossaic, diversity is key. Try and discover as many tiles as possible. Try different combinations of creatures and land tiles - never know what you'll find.

Notes on limited time

We would have loved to have added a bag view (so you can see all the tiles and habitat tokens you have left) and an encyclopaedia so you can check the rules of the tiles you’ve discovered. Alas, we ran out of time.

Instead, we’ve included an encyclopaedia below. If you’d rather discover the rules of the tiles and habitats organically as you play, read no further. But for anybody who would rather know the rules ahead of time, see below.

Encyclopedia

Dirt: Plain and simple. Grants 1 point.

Water: Grants 1 point.

Grass: Dirt turns into grass when it’s next to water. Grants 2 points.

Wildflower meadow: Created by the bumblebee. Grants 4 points.

Marsh: Grass or dirt turns into marsh when it’s next to at least 3 water. Grants 3 points.

Woods: Grass turns into woods when it’s next to at least 3 other grass, or 2 other woods. Grants 3 points.

Worm: Must be placed on dirt. Grants 1 point, and adds 4 habitats to your bag when discovered. Not completed.

Badger: Must be placed on dirt. Grants 1 point, plus 1 for every adjacent grass and plus 2 per adjacent woods.

Dragonfly: Must be placed on marsh. Grants 3 points.

Newt: A rare find.

Fish: Must be placed on water. Grants 1 point, plus 1 point per adjacent water.

Harvester Ants: Must be placed on woods. Grants 1 point and adds 3 more habitat tokens to your bag.

Robin: Must be placed on woods next to another habitat. Grants 3 points. Not completed.

Kingfisher: A rare find.

Bee: Must be placed on grass. Grants 1 point, and turns all surrounding grass into wildflower meadows.

Small White Butterfly: Must be placed on wildflower meadows. Grants 2 points, plus 1 per neighbouring wildflower tile. Not completed.

Large Blue Butterfly: A rare find.

Green Tiger Beetle: ???

Credits

Made by Kai (Programming and Game Design) and lesserkn0wn (Game Design, Art, and Sound)

Asset Credits

Tile placing sound, cyrex studios. https://cyrex-studios.itch.io/universal-ui-soundpack

Music, sprinkle tracks. https://sprinkletracks.itch.io/fantasy-rpg-jams

Font, emhuo. https://emhuo.itch.io/peaberry-pixel-font

Cursor, kenney assets. https://kenney-assets.itch.io/cursor-pack