The Bird and the Sea

## Description

Visiting one of the more primal game themes, this game has the player
controlling the movements of a large, ocean-going bird who hopes to fill its
avian belly with a supper of fresh fish. Fortunately, the verdant aquatic
seascape scrolling by beneath the bird’s flight path is positively roiling
with little fish. Within a strict time limit, the player controls the bird’s
relative horizontal location on the screen with mouse movement and then clicks
to engage a dive; not long after it goes beneath the water in an automated
movement the bird must surface (more mouse clicks to swim up) before
exhausting its oxygen supply, regardless of whether it has successfully
intercepted a fish (or, ideally, several in one dive for combos and point
bonuses). The bird then resumes cruising altitude and lines up for another
dive attempt. With every 300 points accumulated, the player is granted time
extensions.

The Bird and the Sea