Android Game of the week – Bunny Bonker

Posted September 16, 2013 by Mark Craven in Editorial

The Google Play store is a vast ocean of apps, but finding games worth your time can be tiresome. Here at Citizen Game we have taken it upon ourselves to highlight the latest and greatest games the Google Play Store has to offer.

This week we’ve chosen the ultra-cute reflex test game Bunny Bonker from Cococucumber.

Take seaside arcade favourite whack-a-mole, some aspects of duck hunt and the artistic stylings of British Rail art deco posters designers Frank Sherwin and Norman Wilkinson. With this add placid, miffy like, rabbits that have multiplied and taken over the earth!

The game doesn’t offer you any instructional information, and it doesn’t need to. The gameplay could hardly be simpler. Rabbits pop-up, you bonk them on the head. Litterelly. You need to bonk the little furballs on the head to score points.

You have 30 seconds to score as many points as possible. There’s no penalty for not bonking rabbits, and the only negative points you can accumulate is if you aren’t fast enough to destroy items that the rabbits throw at you. You have no lives only time.

Bonus items sometimes appear, and tapping these brings certain benefits, like triggering a slow motion, adding additional time or momentarily magnetically attracting everything to the top of the screen.

The only other mode is Pie Attack. This mode lasts 60 seconds, and once again there are no lives. All you need to do is save the pies from being run over, by a rather portly rabbit riding the pie express. It is a fun mode but doesn’t offer the frantic finger tapping fun that the full mode offers.

The music in Bunny Bonker is unobtrusive yet catchy, there are echos of The B52′s Rock Lobster while it would seem that Keita Takahashi’s Katamari series has had a big influence. Sounds are bold and charming while the music is fresh and keeps game tempo high.

Who are Cococucumber

Cococucumber is a indie game developer duo comprised of Vanessa Chia (director/artist) and Martin Waltz, (director/developer). In the past, they have worked on a variety of commercial broadcast projects for high-profile brands and have found creative inspiration working together. Bunny Bonker is the first game by Cococucumber and was born out a challenge to create a self-funded mobile game made in Unity that can be completed within half a year.