The Bird and the Sea

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.