Instructions
- Get to the door at the end of each level.
- Jump on enemies to kill them and gain a temporary speed boost. The speed boost stacks up.
- Controls:
WASD - Move
Mouse - Look around
Space - Jump
R - Restart level
Esc - Quit
Ever thought how weird it must be for all the 2D platformer characters seeing things from their perspective but still being locked to two dimensions? This is a concept my first-ever LD and second-ever jam game explores. Hedge-Hop is a first person 2D side-scrolling platformer where you must fight sinister exploding hedgehogs (while being quite exploding, yourself).
It could use some shading to help with depth perception, and there is one jump in the first level after defeating two hedgehogs that is nearly impossible to make.
The game is an interesting concept but it gave me _bad_ sea sickness instantly.
"Realistically" a 2D FPS game would only see things in 1 dimension (like Flatland). It would be cool if a game could be made around that.
@tsjost Sorry to hear about your sea sickness. You think it's the FOV? Or maybe the missing crosshair/cursor? I've heard people getting sea sick due to both.
No, the camera is not supposed to constantly pan. Must be some kind of random weirdness. :) And yeah, I agree that a true 2D FPS would be nothing like this game, but if the camera truly was in the in the same plane with a 2D world then there wouldn't be much to see. :)
To be honest, my first idea was to make a game with the idea of "just another day as a full-time 2D game protagonist" where you're kinda like a movie star, running around in this three-dimensional set with a camera crew filming on one side and some billboards used as a backdrop on the other side (but your movement would still be locked to two dimensions). Obviously that was waayyy too ambitious for a 48h jam. :)
Anyway cool little game. The art is simple but works really well.
The thing that i like the most is probably the level design, so good work!
as others said before. It is a really cool concept! I felt a little bit like Mario :D I liked the graphics.
Overall a really good and solid game!