Herumuto no Bichi

BROWSER VERSION FOR COMPUTERS ONLY :o

(No mobile version yet)

Hello, and thank you for checking out my very first project ! 

It is called Herumuto No Bichi, a short single-screen platformer in the likes of the classic Flash Games of the 2000's .

Any feedback is welcome! 

1. PROJECT STATUS

The game has now reached its final form (sort of).

A - D controls should work now..

There's now an automatic saving function for best score.

There are Bonus Items at the end of each phase !

There's some instructions in the pause menu.

Some visual cues and effects added !

Jump buffer system has been tweeked.

Sound design has been tweeked a bit (still not great though, I hope to improve that in future projects).

Finally, there still seems to be an issue with Godot and HTLM ports, preventing from using the gamepad's triggers (Lt, Rt). Those should still work on .exe versions, and you can use Lb and Rb while playing on web browsers (I hope this will be fixed at some point though).

2. STORY

You play as Helmut L. Met, a freshly retired soldier from the Space Prussian Army, who has just opened a seaside cocktail bar on a remote tropical planet. Business is quickly flourishing, attracting tourists from all across the galaxy ! Unfortunately, for some reason, the alien wildlife keeps trying to destroy your establishment (it's unclear whether they resent successful entrepreneurship, or if they're just bothered by the noise).

Hence, you must defend the place as long as possible, while entertaining your customers with funny tricks in the process !

3. CONTROLS

- Keyboard

Move around : Left / Right Arrows

Jump : Space

Flip or Unflip : Ctrl

Pause Game : P / Esc

- Gamepad

Move around : Left Stick

Jump : A

Flip or Unflip : B / Lb / Lt / Rb / Rt 

( ! As said before, triggers currently don't work on html version)

Pause Game : Start

4. TIPS ‘N TRICKS

- Jump on enemies to bounce on them, or flip mid-air to destroy them headfirst with your helmet.

- Do not try and bounce on pointy enemies, you would get hurt ! Instead, jump on them headfirst.

- You can kill jumping enemies while standing on the ground ! The important part is to touch them with your helmet.

- Try achieving multiple kills without touching the ground for some extra points (very important for high scoring)!

- Remember not to attack your customers on the sides! But feel free to bounce on them. Enemies won't try to hurt them (probably because they're so chill about all the monster attack thing going on).

- Also, if you jump headfirst into the sand, you will get stuck. If so, press jump three times to get out.

- The bartender drops Health and Tools items at the end of each enemy wave !

5. CREDITS

Code, art and music by Lofipop

Software used : Audacity, Garageband, Gimp, Godot, Procreate

Sound effects used : all found on Pixabay.com, except retro sounds made with Chiptone (sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone), and Alarm sound found on sonniss.com

Custom fonts used : Dokidoki Fantasia ( booth.pm/ja/items/4106184 ), Super Peach ( dafont.com/super-peach.font ). (Other fonts : Comic Sans, Stencil)

6. THANKS

Many thanks to the Duck Reaction team, for their support.

Merci également aux participants du Discord de Silence, On Joue pour leurs conseils et leur soutien.

Also, I'd like to thank Heartbeast for his really helpul Godot tutorials !

And, of course, thank you for playing ! :)

Helmut L. Met will return... (maybe)