Tiny open world about an ant at a picnic.
Walk over any surface and find food to eat.

HOW TO PLAY:

Start game: Enter
Movement: WASD or Arrows
Lift or eat: Space

Eat and become stronger. Crumbs, blueberries and strawberries will sustain you. You might even find yourself running off with the bigger snacks like cake and cheese.

Take your time exploring this cute little open world. Climb on things, eat some snacks and relax. You're free to explore and play your way.

I think we wear our inspiration on our sleeves. This game was inspired by the beautiful work in A Short Hike.

Thank you to our contributors.

Art/World design: Jayebur
Gameplay programming and UI: FluffyZombees
Gameplay programming and sound implementation:iamRoarke

Some sounds from freesound.org
MATCAP SHADER from Unity Assets Store

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5, Windows
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Authors	iamRoarke, Jayebur, FluffyZombees
Genre	Adventure
Made with	Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter & designer, Maya, ZBrush, Unity, Audacity, GIMP
Tags	Casual, Cute, Game Maker's Toolkit Jam, Open World, Relaxing, Short, Singleplayer
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard

Download

Once Upon A Picnic (Windows) 45 MB

Comments

Paaulii114 days ago(+2)

Lovely game, the graphics looks amazing and that tiny ant looks adorble and the whole concept of the game is really interesting. However I think it would be better if the game keeps change objects to find, after eating it three times. Maybe it is a bug, but after eating the strawberry there is nothing new to eat.

iamRoarke114 days ago

Hey thanks for playing. Glad you liked it!
Yeah that new item in the UI is not so much a bug as a side-effect of not actually getting the intended game-loop in. So there's something of an objective to follow but it doesn't really resolve.
I'm super proud of the little world we managed to create, but we're definitely be looking to close off the game-loop in coming updates. Either that or pull out the UI and really lean into the explorative nature.