Urban Feather is a cooperative digital tabletop game where 1 to 4 players share a single screen to navigate the perilous journey of avian migration. Played exclusively with controllers, your team must work together to guide your flock through a dangerous human city. The Goal: Your objective is to successfully cross the urban map without depleting your flock's health. You must plan routes, manage individual player resources, and make collective decisions to survive. Core Gameplay & Mechanics: Hex-Grid Navigation: The city is represented as a procedurally generated hexagonal grid. Players must plan their moves tile-by-tile, analyzing the environment for safe paths while avoiding deadly zones. Environmental Hazards: The city is full of invisible threats. You must identify and avoid tiles with high glass reflection, building transparency, and artificial light pollution, all of which can trigger fatal collision events. Dynamic Weather System: The game engine constantly alters the environment. Heavy fog reduces visibility, and strong wind currents physically restrict your movement options, forcing your flock to fly at lower, more dangerous altitudes. Card-Based Strategy & Mini-Games: Players utilize "Strategy Cards" to counter threats and intervene in hazardous situations. Triggering certain actions initiates fast-paced mini-games that determine the success of your survival tactics. Reporting & Progression: If a collision occurs, players face a collision check. Surviving these checks yields "Report Cards," which function as a shared team resource to progress through the game, while implicitly teaching real-world citizen-science reporting protocols. Local Co-op Negotiation: Private player resources combined with a shared-screen view create intentional social friction. You must negotiate priorities and coordinate your actions in real-time. There is no AI facilitator—your team's communication is your only lifeline. (Note: A controller/gamepad is required for local multiplayer.)
