Glow Trap

Collect nature's treasures - one puzzle at a time.

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Drag your lantern to bring moths and fireflies into view, then collect them in a living museum.

Click a visitor to inspect its species, rarity and value. Choose Capture specimen to collect it. The bug goes into your field case, and a new species becomes a museum exhibit. Your field case starts with one capture each night.

Work out what each species wants. Arrange lights and lures on the workbench. Some visitors need a stronger lure, a dish inside matching light, or a lure left in shadow. Some avoid particular equipment. Mythics require the right moon phase.

After the guided first night, a matching recipe makes a species possible, never certain. Field notes at dawn reveal missing conditions or confirm a perfect setup when a visitor did not arrive. Seen tonight names uncaptured visitors you spotted.

Choose your upgrades. Spend capture earnings at the dawn shop. Buy equipment or a larger field case. Upgrade lights and lures to level 3. Stronger lights widen their glow. Stronger lures improve the chances of Rare, Epic and Mythic visitors that use them.

Possible tonight shows eligible species you have seen, plus your eligible unseen current target as a silhouette. The gallery's NEXT TARGET card helps you track its recipe.

Build your museum. Each species has distinct male and female artwork. Collected bugs become moving bell-jar exhibits. Click for a close view, or drag jars to rearrange a gallery.

This free demo includes 11 species of Moths and Fireflies, two galleries and two Mythic beacons. Light both beacons to host Opening Night. Beetles, Spiders, Ants and breeding are outside this demo. Progress saves in this browser. Clearing browser storage removes the save.

Controls: Mouse and keyboard on desktop. Drag lanterns and lures. Click visitors to inspect them. Tab or arrow keys move focus. Enter or Space activates a focused control. Esc pauses.

Tell us in the comments: Did the field notes explain what each species wanted?

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Play statistics. This demo sends play statistics to GameAnalytics by default: progression, purchases, upgrades, field-note categories, night number and elapsed play time. The game sends no name, email or typed text. GameAnalytics receives your connection's IP address and SDK device, operating-system and network metadata. To turn statistics off, open the title-screen gear or pause-menu Settings and clear Share play statistics. The setting stays off after you reload.

How this was made. NBD2 is an AI game development studio. As a solo indie dev who is unlikely to ever make a dime from any of my games, there's no other way I could bring my ideas to life.

Glow Trap was created using generative AI during development, including its artwork, animation and visuals, its sound effects and ambient sound, and its game code. All AI generation took place during development. The game does not generate AI content or code during play or connect to an external AI service.

I recognize AI in game development is an extremely sensitive topic and I appreciate both sides. I only hope the game is fun.

The goal should always be making something that human beings will enjoy.

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