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- A lonely astronaut must make new friends by hugging them.
Just barely made it with a mostly playable game. Thought I could get more done, but oh well! Missing audio and explosions. Could always use more explosions.
WASD or Arrow keys to move around, F key to initiate hug, continue pressing F to hug even harder!
The game was built with:
HTML5/JavaScript
Phaser.js - Phaser is an awesome HTML5 game framework.
Gimp & Inkscape for graphics
Didn't have time for audio.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 77% |
| #87 | Theme | 4.00 |
| #128 | Humor | 3.66 |
| #418 | Fun | 3.20 |
| #518 | Innovation | 3.15 |
| #620 | Overall | 3.10 |
| #621 | Graphics | 2.95 |
| #701 | Mood | 2.74 |
Comments
This is my kind of design.
So easy to understand and fun to play.
This game was quite silly, and that was a good thing. Hugging was a very unconventional way to fight, but I liked it. Very nice.
This would be the second game I've seen where hugging is the weapon, except that in your case it's not so much 'hug' as 'crush to death with bare hands'. I like it.
A good and funny concept, which was well implemented.
As a suggestion, the attacks of the enemies might have a way to defend ...
Really funny take on the theme! I think you should be able to block their bullets while hugging, but either way, cool game!
Fun and lighthearted in a sinister way. I really liked it :) I like sorloks idea to be able to block the bullets using your newly found friends!
Thanks for the feedback everyone! @sorlok, that's a great idea, I'll have to add that in post-compo.
Being able to hold down F instead of buttom mash would make my hands thank you. :P Funny idea though. It looked like the astronaut was dancing while killing the aliens.
Also I didn't hear audio -- if you didn't finish it, did you mean to submit without audio as a rating category?
This is a really cute idea! love it! too bad you didn't have the time to add audio :)
Is this hug or strangulation ? :-)
Good job making a game with Phaser, mine was made it with too.
Thank you! I have never got so many friends in such a short time!
Not bad. The enemies appeared faster than I could kill them, so I could see that I wasn't going to survive for long.
I would've liked it if they absorbed the bullets depending on which way you were facing.
The game mechanic did feel a little uninteresting, because if you just think about the mechanics without any of the graphics or the game's context then really it's just the enemies are attacking you with range attacks and you have a close-ranged attack that you have to press the button a lot to use. Perhaps that would've been remedied by the music, sound effects and visual effects (e.g. explosions). OR maybe it would be cool if instead of dying the enemies actually became your friend and fought off the bad guys?
I liked hugging them aliens. I expected that my alien buddy was a bullet sponge, but I still took damage. That ability would allow the player to play with another mechanic. Try to think of other mechanics you could add on. Another thing is that you could build in an indicator to keep pressing F (like a QTE).
My highest score is 11 friends. I do like the graphics and animation. Audio of the alien struggling would enhance the experience.
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Yay! 24 new friends! Cool game, but why do the aliens fall down when I hug them so much? :(