Cabbage Catcher

Cabbage Catcher is a single-finger cartoon arcade game built around one very specific

premise: a straw scarecrow is asleep on duty, and the cabbages are starting to fall

out of the sky. You have one woven wicker basket, sixty seconds, and an entire

vegetable patch worth of round green cabbages tumbling from above. Slide the basket

left and right with your thumb to catch them before they hit the soil.

What makes Cabbage Catcher its own thing rather than another reskin of a generic

falling-object game is the layered economy around the basic catch loop. Hares from

the neighboring meadow keep hopping into the play field as living distractions. They

fall the same way the cabbages do, but they cost you a life if you scoop one up by

mistake, so the basket isn't just a "catch everything" tool, it's a filter you have

to aim. Every tenth cabbage caught in a single round triggers a five-second time

bonus, which turns the round into a rolling streak puzzle: keep the combo alive,

keep the timer alive. Break the streak and the round shortens itself again.

Between rounds you visit the Barnyard Bazaar, an in-game upgrade shop paid for by the

cabbages you actually managed to catch. There are two upgrade tracks. The Wider

Basket track stretches the wicker rim of your basket so each horizontal sweep covers

more ground. The Cabbage Magnet track adds a soft attraction field around the

basket that pulls only cabbages, never hares, so the upgrades stack into different

play styles instead of just making the game easier in one direction.

The whole app is built in Flutter with a hand-painted cartoon look. Two original

illustrated backgrounds, one daytime meadow and one dusk barn, were generated for the

project and reused across all screens for a unified scarecrow-farm feel. Cabbages,

hares and the basket are individual transparent sprites drawn directly onto a custom

canvas, so the game runs as one continuous animation loop instead of relying on

stacked widgets. Layout, sprite size, basket width, button height and font sizes all

scale from the device's shortest side, so the same code adapts cleanly from a small

phone to a large tablet without redesigning any screen.