flowers of error

flowers of error is an abstract shoot-em-up developed for the 2008 Toronto Game Jam. Players control a small white circle against a backdrop where waves or yellow circles appear from all sides. The aim of the game is to avoid contact with these circles by dragging the white circle to a safe position.

The yellow circles can be dragged around as well and some of these are highlighted. When those are moved to a new location they explode and destroy other circles in the vicinity. Destroyed circles leave behind letters that can be collected to form a story, shown near the top of the screen. Upon dying, the full story sequence is shown as far as the collected letters allow it to proceed.