Press kit

Bag Manners

Bag Manners is a free browser game about the oldest prank on the block. Drop the bag, light it, ring the bell, hide in the bushes and film Tyler, 38, while he deals with it. 25 reactions to collect, one legendary ending, no install.

Developer
Butterbutt Games
Publisher
Butterbutt Games (self-published)
Release
Out now
Platform
Web browser, desktop and mobile
Price
Free
Website
bagmanners.com
Studio
butterbuttgames.com
A night lasts
About a minute
Language
English (voice and text)
Content
Crude humor, strong language, cartoon fire
Tech
No engine. HTML5 canvas and plain JavaScript.
Press contact
hello@butterbuttgames.com

Description

Tyler is 38. He has a Roth IRA, a pickleball habit and a Live Laugh Love sign by the door. You are a kid with a paper bag, a lighter and a phone. Bag Manners is a short, free browser game about the oldest prank on the block. Drop the bag, time the lighter, ring the bell and hide. Then film. Tyler reacts differently every night: he stomps it, hoses it, calls his mom, asks the smart speaker for help, sacrifices his sourdough starter. Keep the phone down when he looks your way, catch his best line and post the clip. Some nights he spots you and gives chase. Some nights nobody puts it out. Every clip exports as a real video file, 16:9 or vertical, straight from the browser.

Features

  • 25 reactions + 1 legendary. Each with its own variants. Collect them all in the ReactionDex.
  • The phone is the camera. Film while he isn't looking. The awareness meter decides when he spots you.
  • Real clip export. Save a 16:9 clip or a vertical one with live chat, as a video file, from the browser.
  • Fully voiced. Tyler, the Kid, Mom, a smart speaker (parody) and a British nature narrator. All synthetic.
  • Planet Cul-de-Sac. A nature-documentary cold open. Episode 1: The Elder Millennial.
  • Plays anywhere. Any modern browser, desktop or phone. No install, no account.

An AI slop cannon, aimed by hand.

Everything in Bag Manners came out of generative AI tools: art, animation, voices, music, code. The pedigree is in the aiming. Every gag was directed, re-shot, cut, pixel-processed and timed by hand until it landed, and a lot of takes died so these ones could live. Sound effects are procedural.

Taglines

  • Ding dong, dipshit.
  • Film the millennial. Post the clip.
  • He's 38. He has a Roth IRA. He has nothing to lose.
  • Every cul-de-sac has one.
  • An AI slop cannon, aimed by hand.
  • Some nights, nobody puts it out.

Trailer

Download: 16:9, 720p, 6.3 MB

Credits and licenses

Written, directed and edited by

Butterbutt Games

Art, animation, voices, music

Generative AI tools

Sound effects

Procedural, made in-house

Fonts

Silkscreen by Jason Kottke and Pixelify Sans by Stefie Justprince, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1

Code library

mp4-muxer by Vanilagy, MIT License

Full notices

LICENSES.md

Bag Manners is a parody. Tyler, the Kid and the cul-de-sac are fictional, and the smart speaker is a parody. Butterbutt Games makes small, dumb, carefully made games. Games worth sitting on. Head of QA: Gary (self-appointed). More at butterbuttgames.com.