Update: Demo now on pixelpicked!

Hey!

I'm happy to announce that you can play now right here!

The demo is four places and the grove you build out of them. Each place asks for something different: wake an ancestral tree in the swamp, join a crossing that fell silent, earn a deer's trust, bring the fox cubs home to a mother who is out looking for them. Finish one and something comes back with you and the grove closes in a little more around what you woke.

The newest thing in it is the birds. When a place wakes, they arrive: they fly in, pick a spot and land on it, and then they stay. They shake themselves out, scratch, peck at the ground, look over at you. Fourteen different plumages. The part I like best is what happens when you walk into them. They do not scatter. They make room, a hop to the side or a short low arc to a spot two meters over and then they settle again. Stand still long enough and one of them will land on your head.

The grove has real music now too, written for it by Kaereste and it changes the feeling a lot! Please let me know what you think!

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