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A jam submission

Buzz and Bustle(汲汲蠅蠅)View game page

Life’s short. Eat trash, find love, dodge spiders… embrace the loop.
Submitted by pomelovictor, jackchou_0523, RookiEnn, Huai — 59 minutes, 42 seconds before the deadline
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Buzz and Bustle(汲汲蠅蠅)'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#41722.9444.333
Narrative#41942.2653.333
Creativity#60532.7174.000
Audio#69881.9252.833
Enjoyment#83501.6982.500

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
A fly’s life is one endless loop — hatch, clean, dodge, eat garbage, maybe fall in love for 12 seconds… die stupidly… repeat. In Buzz and Bustle, every run is the whole messy, ridiculous circle of (fly) life. But the loop isn’t just a mechanic — it’s the heart of the game. Each life is fleeting and absurd, but still worth living to the fullest. You make the most of your seconds, knowing you’ll end up in a spiderweb or swallowed whole… only to be born again. It’s our playful take on the inevitability of cycles — in nature, in games, and in life itself. ♾️🪰

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Victor Jhou, Jack Zhou, Enn Ruan, Yuhuai Huang

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

My head fell off as I was cleaning it. 10/10

Love the art style so much, and overall very creative use of the theme :)

Submitted(+2)

haha it's so nice to play as a fly~ Nice theme and artwork!

Submitted(+1)

Art/aesthetic is very good, but the game broke for me when I got to the sidescrolling section; I could move up and down but not left or right so the screen just scrolled past me. Eventually when I got to the end the background left the screen and it was just a skybox lol.

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much! Our artist will be really happy to hear that.

Sorry about the sidescrolling bug — we’ve removed that broken version, so it shouldn’t happen again. Thanks for letting us know!