Herumuto no Bichi

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 .

1. STORY

You play as Helmut L. Met, a retired space adventurer, 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 

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)