Mossaic
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
Encyclopedia - Tiles
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.
Encyclopedia - Habitats
Worm: Must be placed on dirt. Grants 1 point, and adds 4 habitats to your bag when discovered.
Badger: Must be placed on dirt near grass. Grants 1 point, plus 1 for every adjacent grass, and 1 habitat token.
Dragonfly: Must be placed on marsh. Grants 3 points and 1 habitat token.
Newt: A rare find. Must be placed in water next to marsh. Grants 6 points and 1 habitat token.
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.
Kingfisher: A rare find. Must be placed on woods next to a fish. Grants 6 points and 1 habitat token.
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 and 1 habitat token.
Large Blue Butterfly: A rare find. Must be placed on wildflower meadows near ants. Grants 6 points, and 1 point per wildflower neighbour, and 3 habitat tokens.
Green Tiger Beetle: Must be placed on grass or wildflowers near butterflies.
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
Development log
- Mossaic v0.320 hours ago
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I've been told that there's an issue with small screen sizes. If the tutorial box that pops up at the start is blocking your view, you can resize it by grabbing the edges and move it by grabbing just above the top. Then once you are done with the instructions, you can close it by pressing the cross.
Since this isn't a game breaking bug, we won't be fixing this until the end of the game jam rating period. Apologies for the inconvenience!