A Fly Named Carl

A new shareware game · The Bard of Bizarre, 1995 · registration $5

A Fly Named Carl: its title screen

You are Carl, the fly in the room, and you're winning. Eat his TV snacks, flash a smile from every wall, buzz his ear at 3:47 AM, barrel-roll past the dish towel and the old clap, go out the window into a nature documentary where time breaks, then come back for the aux cord. Flying burns sugar, so mind the cubes. Shareware from The Sofa BBS, based on the song by The Bard of Bizarre (lyrics shaped by ChatGPT from Lewis Moten's prompt; music made with Riffusion (now Google Flow Music); title and cover art drawn for the game by Claude Opus 5.5).

Play A Fly Named Carl right here in your browser — nothing to download or install — with a keyboard, a game controller or touch controls.

Shareware: the author’s notice and how to register are in the game, shown before it starts.

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Made with Game-Maker: Sandbox Edition · source code · A modified fork of RSD Game-Maker 3.0 — not an original RSD release.