Belugo

You control a little albino hedgehog and have to take it through this weird tunnel with hitting the minimal amount of obstacles! (better in fullscreen)

• ControlsInput Action Arrow Keys (can't go backwards)MovementR Start a new game

This game was originally intended for CozyAutumn 2022, but I quickly went off-road, no more autumn, no more cozy and no more deadline.

I just ended up experimenting with every little thing I got excited with at the time (some procedural generation, AI asset creation).

• Notes
  -  Slow in the beginning, the binary is 29mb, sorry!
  -  No real gameplay, it should just be a 3-4min "experience", more of an Ebitengine "tech-demo"?
  -  Lots of visual glitches and artifacts, because everything is hacked on top of each other, I tried to minimize these as much as I could, but most are still very obvious => wontfix

• Technical details (since it has been more of a technical project than a game to me)
  - Tunnel is made with the same technique I used in this game (based on this article). I just procedurally generated an additional "data" texture containing the map tiles information (water, grass, snow, etc..) and customized some of their rendering in the tunnel shader.
  - The trees are procedurally generated (poor solution from scratch but okay), not the leaves.
  - The owl spritesheets are generated with the help of StableDiffusion, then a Flowframes run to create extra in-between frames.
  - The hedgehog is modeled by hand using 3D signed distance fields.

• Assets & Credits
  - Engine: https://ebitengine.org/
  - SFX
     - Reset sound by legoluft
     - River ambient by ATTILA
     - Wind ambient by Videvo
  - Images
     - Leaf sprites by Kenney
     - Ebitengine splash art
     - Textures by @juliovii (license: CC-By)
        - https://juliovii.itch.io/pspk01
        - https://juliovii.itch.io/stylizedpk02
        - https://juliovii.itch.io/stylizedpk01
  - "Music" of endgame => me lol (noticeable)

Thanks to Wraken, giab IRL friends, and @tinne (from ebitengine discord server) for feedback during development
Thank you Hajime Hoshi for developing and maintaining Ebitengine