Help Hr. B!

Controls

Arrow keys to move around. [Z] or [X] to brake. [P] to pause the game.

How to play

Try surviving for 100 seconds!

It might be fun to go in blind and figure out how the game works yourself, but if you'd rather not here's how everything works:

====== Hr. B ======

You play as Hr. B. He is vulnerable when slow, but if fast enough he can damage enemies by ramming into them. He will glow when he has reached that critical speed.

====== Bats ======

Simple creatures that chase you.

====== Snails ======

Though harmless and sluggish, these snails will slow you down on contact allowing other enemies to get the jump on you!

====== Fast Guys ======

These fellas remind me of you! When slow they are harmless and vulnerable, but they will deal damage when glowing from speed. If you ram into each other, you will parry and reflect off each other.

====== Armor Guys ======

These walking furnaces are highly dangerous. Even when fast it is ill-advised to charge into them. They may have to cool off occasionally though giving you a chance to strike!

====== Cookie Jar ======

Hr. B's cookie jar will appear every 50 seconds. It powers you up for a brief period, giving you immense acceleration. If you take damage before the power-up runs out, you lose the power instead of a life.

====== Waves ======

Every now and then a wave may occur. These are periods where lots of the same enemies will spawn. Sometimes the warning before the wave may hint at what enemy type it is.

Pro-tips!

- You move faster diagonally.

- Enemies can't spawn at the bottom of the screen.

- Cookie jars can make you fast enough to parry armor guys or kill fast guys when they would otherwise be invulnerable. If you are extremely fast you can even kill armor guys. (Fig. 1)

- If you are heading towards danger, it might be hard to steer away from it in time, so remember your brakes! This is especially true if you're headed towards an active armor guy. (Fig. 2)

 fig. 1       fig. 2

Credits

My first ever PICO-8 game and second ever game made with actual code in an actual engine (the first being a shoddy pushing blocks (sokoban) game that I made in GameMaker when I was 14.)

I also made the soundtrack which was fun! I love using the same musical ideas (such as the melody going 1-5-6-5 or the bassline going 1-3b in the case of this game) and recontextualizing them to evoke different feelings. I even tried going crazy by making adaptive music, so the main theme gets creepier when you're down to your last life, but it's kinda buggy sometimes so sorry about that :S

Everything made by me
Engine: PICO-8
Illustrations made in Microsoft Paint

Special thanks to:
My sister for buying PICO-8 for my birthday <3
SpaceCat on YouTube for teaching basic PICO-8 to newbie game devs extremely well <3

What does 'Hr. B' mean?

'Hr.' means 'Mr.' in Danish and is pronounced "hair".
'B' is because he is a blue bouncy ball boy ♪(´▽｀)