Gull Chorus

How it plays

• Your gull chases a waving sandwich: point where to fly, down to dive and pick up speed, up to climb. Classic tap-to-flap controls are in the settings.
• Let go and your gull glides down and skims along the sand. The camera keeps the beach in view and pulls back when you climb.
• Skim a snack fast to snatch it in flight, or come in slow and land on the blanket.
• Everything on the beach breaks. Knock a bin over and its food spills out. Bonk something sturdy and you bounce off a heart down.
• Cross the finish line to end the beach for up to five stars, or keep going for more food, more smashing and more bubbles.
• Every gull’s run gets a grade for its smashes, splats, near misses and high snatches. Beat the best gull of the beach.
• Hold fast-forward to watch the flock go at triple speed.

Six beaches, six songs

• Bondi, Manly and Coogee in Sydney; Shamora, Glass Beach and Tokarevsky Lighthouse in Vladivostok, each with its own gulls and its own snacks.
• Every beach plays a classic tune on real instruments: Waltzing Matilda at Bondi, the Wellerman at Manly, Kalinka at Shamora and more.
• The song grows with the flock: new sections, more instruments, a key change, so gull twenty-five never sounds like gull five.
• Every few gulls something turns up on the beach: an ice-cream van, a wedding party, a fishing boat unloading, a lifeguard. More food, and more to smash.
• The whole beach bobs to the beat, and the sky and the sea change colour with the song.
• Finish a beach and the whole flock comes back as a gull tsunami that smashes the melody out of whatever is still standing.

Special gulls

Stars buy special gulls: Fatso with extra hearts, the Gobbler who swallows two snacks in one gulp, the Phantom who flies straight through things, Kaboom, the Seagull King and more. Each has a few goes per beach, so pick your moment.

Where to play

Free in your browser, here or on itch.io, and as a Windows download. Mouse, keyboard or touch: on a phone, drag to steer. In English.