The Dandy Effect
A giddy child’s breath
tufts of life find new purchase
blooms of sunshine spread.
The Dandy Effect is our entry to the Cozy Spring Jam 2025 hosted by Virtual Turtle Games. We aimed to make a cozy spring game with the added twist of including the Butterfly Effect. Small choices and actions that add up to a larger effect. With a single breath on a dandelion tuft, a whole field of flowers can grow, which we aimed to show in this game.
How to play
Controls: Mouse Over, Left Mouse Click
Credits
Everything in our game was made by us from scratch.
Davis Vail - engineering
Megan Vail - art, sounds
Petrina Maher - music
Engine: Godot
Art: Aseprite, Figma, Affinity Designer
Music Tools: Logic Pro X
About Us
Special thanks to Petrina Maher for stepping in and saving our bacon when it came to soundtrack! We're Crazybear Games: a husband and wife duo. This is our first game that we've shared with others, our first Game Jam submission, and really our first game since picking up game development and pixel art three weeks ago.
Development log
- Version 1.0.2May 20, 2025
Comments
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Hi - this is one of THE GREATEST CLICKERS I HAVE EVER PLAYED - I really would love if you expanded it a huge amount, you have an amazing concept to build off of and I think you could genuinely sell this on steam and make some money if you worked on it. I streamed it for a couple friends and we were both freaking out - partly because of the brilliant move of mousing over the flowers instead of clicking them, makes it so much more relaxing. Really loved it.
So glad you and your friends enjoyed it! We have so far had no plans to expand it partly due to not wanting to make it something it was never meant to be. But, who knows, the future is never certain.
Love the art, music, sfx and simple gameplay. Got addicted to the lovely and satisfying "drawing" gesture the game made me do over and over to blow the dandelions!
Thank you!
Can you make a downloadable version?
At this time we have no plans to adapt it to another platform. If there's a lot of interest for that though we could reconsider :).
Satisfyingly simple and visually delightful. I love the theme- I thought I'd just play once but I've come back to it over and over.
Thanks for playing! Sorry this comment got flagged for some reason and we just now noticed it.
I'm drowning in dandelions.
Mind if I tweak the code to see how many dandelions I can fit on one screen?
Sure! No guarantees past 1k though ;).
Appearantly My PC can only handle so many dandelions at once... I had to hard reboot it
before it crashed, the counter I set up had 10,100 on it.
adore !! this !
Wow! So beautiful! It is such a relaxing experience!
The dandelions gradually increase, and the idea of making a wish when sending off the fluff is really lovely.
After playing normally at first, I feel like playing again, so I do it again, but this time I do not buy Gust and instead increase them with the mouse cursor until the end.
The places I trace with the mouse change color later, and that also feels really nice to look at, meow~! 🐱
my playthrough
Thank you! It's been great fun for us to see more screens full of dandelions.
Nice short game.
Wow was this a good use of Butterfly effect, felt so satisfying for them to multiply so quickly at the end.
the Butterfly effect is something different, but I agree it is a very satisfying game :D