Crow's NestOriginal Title

Halloween night. The crows have nested in a stack of crates beyond the field, and you have a slingshot and a pile of jack-o'-lanterns. The camera opens on the crows, pans back to the slingshot, and follows each pumpkin across a field wider than the screen. Glass shatters and lets the pumpkin through; wood cracks, is shoved along, or is broken right through by a hard throw; stone takes a hard throw. A block with nothing under it falls, unless it is held between two blocks or by a neighbour standing on something, and a crow that falls, or that a block lands on, flies off. Now and then one flies straight at the screen.

There are ten stacks. You have three pumpkins for each, four for the last four. Each crow scores 100, a spinning star waiting midway scores 1,000 if a throw hits it, and clearing a stack scores 500 for every pumpkin left. Run out of pumpkins with crows still in the stack and you try that stack again.

The field is 80 columns wide and redrawn from the world whenever the camera moves a column. The carved pumpkins glow from inside, and the star's frames were made by turning a real five-pointed star.

Controls: either joystick, with two control styles chosen before play. Pinch and pull: hold the button, pull the pouch back with the stick, and let go to throw. Aim and swing: stick up and down aims, holding the button sets the power as it swings up and down, and letting go throws.

An original game by Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, written in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026, with the camera, the star, the lanterns and the crow at the screen from Amy Bienvenu's ideas, and the music Harvest Moon Jig. This is a modern homebrew release, not a commercial Coleco release.