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
Trailer
Download: 16:9, 720p, 6.3 MB
Key art and screenshots
Key art1920 x 1072 · 374 KB
Title screen1920 x 1080 · 253 KB
Time the lighter1920 x 1080 · 242 KB
Film him1920 x 1080 · 345 KB
Leaf Blower1920 x 1080 · 328 KB
Hey Alexa1920 x 1080 · 296 KB
The chase1920 x 1080 · 238 KB
Legendary: Let It Burn1920 x 1080 · 376 KB
Post the clip1920 x 1080 · 131 KB
Planet Cul-de-Sac1920 x 1080 · 226 KB
Social and logos
Link card1200 x 630 · 153 KB
X header1500 x 500 · 117 KB
Square post1080 x 1080 · 188 KB
Story1080 x 1920 · 204 KB
Avatar1080 x 1080 · 230 KB
Logo lockup872 x 204 · 2 KB
Wordmark872 x 152 · 1 KB
Click any image to download it. Screenshots are game frames at 1920 x 1080.
Credits and licenses
Written, directed and edited by
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
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.