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    Written by . Posted at 7:19 am on April 1st, 2010

    Michal Marcinkowski creator of the online 2d shooter Soldat is proud to announce his new indie game project.
    After getting tired of games with constant gore, slaughter, blood-fest, brain-smashing, spinal-coord-ripping, arm-twisting-agony, brutal-gut-exploding, bored to death by games where you shoot, mow down with a machinegun, stab with a knife, chop limbs with a chainsaw, blast with a grenade and snipe headshots – Michal Marcinkowski announces that he has started working on a new game entitled:

    HUG

    Hug: A massive world full of bright colors, teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join a party of friends on a mission to hug people that need a little love and care. Travel areas ranging from hidden caves, shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases, all lovingly handcrafted by its creators.

    Hug is a Massive-Multiplayer game with team-based tactical hugging elements.

    Main features:

    Experimental graphics

    Revolutionary new style of graphics with black foregrounds and colorful picturesque backgrounds (any similarity to the 2006 short-movie Benedito Machine is strictly coincidental)

    Dorky looking character

    Tired of games like Contra were the main character is actually a man and a possible role-model – Hug features dorky looking characters that attract the 0-3 year old audience.

    Kissing flowers

    Hugging ponies

    It must be mentioned that MM is a an actual male he just really loves hugging ponies in a video game all day.

    Forbidding violence

    If you try to commit an act of violence on a friendly NPC the game shuts-down immediately, erases itself from the hard-drive and calls the cops.

    Stars

    Everybody loves collecting stars right?

    Not made for profit!

    This is an experimental art game made for purely artistic reasons (this game isn’t trying to copy the style of Braid which despite being an experimental game earned hundreds of thousands of dollars)

    Pointless activities

    For example: spray painting walls. Actually that’s one of the major gameplay features of this game.

    Physics based gameplay and puzzles

    It’s so easy to plug-in Box2D physics engine nowadays that it just had to make it into the game despite physics puzzles making no sense and having no gameplay value at all. Everybody loves physics right?!

    More stars

    You never get tired of stars in games!

    The game will be finished right in time for the 13th Independent Game Festival. It is a sure winner. If you want to meet Michal Marcinkowski and give him a hug buy a ticket to the awards ceremony.

    Hugs and kisses.

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    31 comments.

    1. Makron666

      This ia gonna be a real hit, im so exited. Yipppee


    2. Rook_PL

      Yeah, go on, call me a freak but the game I liked the most was Portal. Another side scrolling shooter won’t be “the best game ever”.


    3. this is gonna be LEGEN – wait for it.. – DARY!


    4. Will it be available on the App store?


    5. Worst April Fools’ ever.


    6. i can belive every one forget it about what day its is today


    7. april fools


    8. it’s so bad, since you actually know it could be true since you never even released a game. Just some beta’s.

      So sad you finally found out :)


    9. shurcooL`

      This is good.

      Making fun games that are about shooting people isn’t a challenge at all. There are a dime a dozen such games.

      But making _fun_ games without violence is truly an art.

      A side benefit of a good game with no violence is that you can let a 10 year old cousin play it without feeling bad.


    10. too obvious


    11. Worst april fools joke i’ve ever seen :/ . You could think of something more probable/shocking.


    12. AWESOME!


    13. Fuck YEAH ! more stars :)


    14. AnonGamer0023

      WHAAAAAAAT?!?!?!? T_T!!!!!!


    15. Underline

      april fools


    16. Sounds better and more original than most games.


    17. TheOdds
    18. I hate April Fools. And I hate how people actually think its funny to trick somebody (or people) into anything. Its so stupid. Its like backstabbing in disguise (depending on the circumstance, maybe not as harsh as ‘backstabbing’).


    19. a better joke would be just writing a regular post saying that you actually know what ld is supposed to be.


    20. At first I LoL’d, but mocking physics dude… that just crossed a line. Now I’m going to hug me some ponies.


    21. Haha, I lold again. Hugging Ponies!! xD Genious!


    22. NooMoahk
    23. not fooled lol


    24. I AM SURE THAT THE DATE IS A MERE COINCIDENCE. I AM VERY EXITED FOR THE NEW GAME. I HOPE MICHAEL VOICE ACTS; HIS VOICE IS SEXY.


    25. One question – will I be able to sex the pony after I hug it?


    26. what if its aprils fools that he isnt making that 😐 that it could be truth!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


    27. I didn’t say it was april fools, did I?


    28. Yeah well, I hope in LinkDead, when I play a big fat mean machine, I can hug my enemy until he explodes in a fine coat of blood. And then I’ll name him Pony.


    29. the dude

      no ladies on this blog ?


    30. whitdemon

      soldat is dying and all…
      and i dont see “someONE” updating it…
      sad


    31. Avoid starchy vegetables. A concentrated source for minerals and trace elements.


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