BA PROJECT
"HUG'EM!"
Slip into the role of S. a newly appointed manager who’s forced to hug his weird, alien-esque colleagues for the new Office for Cross-Species Communication and Mediation’s PR. Get to know your new colleagues and complete their individual hugs in this humorous visual novel meets twin-stick input skill game, all about individuality, absurdity and resulting interaction.
Stats
- Singleplayer
- Windows, Mac
- Twin-stick Input
- And lots of text
Design Pillars
Do not explain what is going on, just shovel more weirdness on top
Characters vary wildly in design, personality and hug mechanic
Do not give the player time to acclimate
My Motivation:
“Hug’Em!” was started for my BA. It was important to me that I make a game myself, from start to finish, to put my learned abilities to the test.
“Hug’Em!” is still a work in progress. I am proud of the current state of the game, but want to improve on it’s core concept and design. It’s a test of Concept, so to speak. And due to this test, it has become a lot clearer to me, what I want the game to be.
Most Time Invested
Future Plans
- Less Text
- More Levels
- More Insanity
Tools Used:
Unity Engine
DOTween And Inky
FMOD And Reaper
Clip Studio Paint
Mentors:
Goran Saric
Stefan Schmidlin
Special Thanks:
Thank you Luca Imesh, Lorenz Kleiser and Robin Good for helping me with Code when I was stuck. Thank you Rahel Gamma and Noe Mael Arnold for your Inputs regarding Levels, Characters, Story and Setting.
