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to pollinate the flower to transform the flower into a fruit. Thus, the player needs to work
strategically. She must both bring a seed into the game world close enough to a flower to
cause a spider to build web between them, and she must plant other seeds at a distance that
permits them to enjoy spiders’ grasshopper-protection while avoiding spiders’ repulsion of
bees. If the player succeeds, a bee-pollinated flower will turn into a fruit, bringing into the
game world a bird that both consumes the fruit and drops a new seed. If the player moves
slowly, the seed will drop to the ground and will be snatched by a mouse that has emerged
from a hole in the foreground. If the player employs the middle lasso gesture quickly
enough, she will both loft the falling seed into the air and cause that falling seed to break
into a collection of smaller seeds that will land and generate tufts of grass. The player uses
the middle lasso gesture to distribute the seeds the grass generates to grow grass that
stretches across the game world. The player is then be challenged to create a nest for the
ground-bees – something she can achieve by using the lowest lasso gesture to “spin” a nest
for the mouse from the tall grasses, prompting the mouse to abandon the hole it was using
before and enabling the ground-bees to build a hive in the hole. The increase in the bee
population its new, local ground-nest permits brings a sizable increase in the number and
kinds of flower blooms. Yet, that increase in pollination also brings an increase in the honey
the ground-bees produce – one that, in time, prompts the mouse to raid the bees’ hive.
That raid brings a serious decline in the flower blooms – a decline the player may stop by
employing the lowest lasso gesture to distribute the mouse’s smell to its predators – a group
that includes a snake that uses its tongue to smell.