Planned Release Date: Nov 12, 2026

About This Game

You are a murmuration. A hundred flying blocks wrapped around a controllable core.

Battle! Every hit shakes blocks loose. Every block that falls is one tick closer to zero. In MURMUR MURDER, you are the health bar: a living countdown swirling through the air, and everyone in the room is set on being the last one standing.

Made for the GMTK Game Jam.

Theme: COUNTDOWN.

The Flock Is the Clock

Your body is one hundred pieces, and the whole match is spent defending them and attacking your enemies.  Bleed the other flock faster than they bleed you. When the last block drops, so do you.

Couch Murder

1–4 players, local. Online support if this does well! Bring friends or feed slots to the CPU. Bots come in Easy, Normal, and Murderous. Stocks, timed matches, or first-to-X KOs, on procedurally generated stages that never repeat.

Move Like a Flock

Run, wall-jump, slide, slam, fly. Parry a bullet at the last instant and send it home. And when things get desperate: dissolve into the murmur itself and fly as a swirling flock of blocks that lays bombs mid-flight.

The Arsenal

Unique weapons! Pistol, machine gun, shotgun, rifle, and a sword that swings with your aim. If you find the gold orb, the GOD MURMUR: a golden flock with a gun to match. Health, shields, and slo-mo drop in as well.

Learn the Wings

A full tutorial walks you through every control, and training mode gives you a dummy with adjustable behavior, Smash-style, to practice against.

Features:

• 1–4 player local versus: stocks, timed, or first-to-X KOs

• Your health is a physical flock of 100 blocks that visibly scatters as you take hits

• Survival mode: outlast waves of increasingly armed flocks, alone

• Procedurally generated stages in shifting sunset palettes

• Murmur flight, wall-jumps, slides, slams, parries, and mid-air bombs

• Six weapons, four powerups, one gold orb that turns you into a god

• Full tutorial + training mode with adjustable CPU behavior

• CPU opponents from harmless to murderous

• Online coming soon!