Right now, in our galaxy, the evil empire is spreading like a virus. Our rebels forces have uncovered intel of military outposts on several remote planets. As an elite soldier, your mission is to explore those strange planets using your tools of destruction, locate the enemy bases, and eliminate the invaders. Good luck, have fun, and give space a hug for me.

Controls

• WASD or D-Pad - Move, jump, and climb
• Z or J or Left click - Shoot - Most things will break, some will burn
• X or K or Right click - Roll - brief invulnerability, does damage, gives a boost, puts out fire
• C or L or Middle click - Grenade - 3 per life, use wisely
• Enter - Toggle fullscreen mode for best results
• Or connect an Xbox or SNES style controller
• Supports 2-4 player local co-op multiplayer with controllers!
• Play on a touch device with the onscreen virtual gamepad
• Alternate control buttons on JKL

How To Play

• Kill all enemies to complete each level
• A radar along the bottom of the screen shows where enemies are
• You start with 10 lives and get 3 more for completing each level
• There are 5 levels and a final boss at the end
• For an optimal play experience please use Chrome in fullscreen mode

Settings

• 1 - Toggle Low/High Detail Mode
• 2 - Toggle Voice
• 3 - Toggle Music
• 4 - Toggle Audio
• Enter - Toggle fullscreen mode
• Esc or P - Pause
• R - Restart

Gameplay Tips

• Rolling puts out fire, makes you invulnerable, and does melee damage
• Hold down jump to climb walls, jump flip to get more height or distance
• Enemies have slow reactions and are briefly stunned when damaged
• Levels are randomly generated, it's different every time
• Timer pauses when paused, take a break if you need to

Enemy Types

• Recruit (Green) - A bit shorter, more hesitant, takes only 1 hit
• Soldier (Blue) - Average height and ability, takes 2 hits
• Captain (Red) - Can climb walls and jumps more often, takes 3 hits
• Specialist (White) - Jumps and rolls often, they are ninjas, takes 4 hits
• Demolitions Expert (Purple) - Throws grenades and can't catch fire, takes 5 hits
• Small chance of a heavy weapons variation that has double health and fires full auto

Major Updates

• 11/5/21 - Mobile Support! Separate leaderboard and medals for mobile devices.
• 11/13/21 - Improved boss, will chase you, rolling through walls and throwing stuff.
• 11/24/21 - Cooperative win time scoreboard added.

Space Huggers was originally made for JS13K and fit in a 13k zip file! This version has some extra improvements, music, a final boss, medals and a scoreboard. It was made with my new game engine LittleJS open source on GitHub.

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