Animechs! Clash of Catbot

Animechs! - PLAYER MANUAL  (C) Copyright 1987 HugBug Ent. Inc.

• CLICK the VHS cassette to start the cartoon!
• CLICK the SETTINGS BUTTON on the TV for cheat sheet...
  • WASD or ARROWS to move.
  • SPACE to jump.
  • V to shoot sword.
• EXPLORE CATBOT CITY until you get bored! (Yup, that's the whole, incredible game right now. Haha. Might do more in the future.)

Learn more about the Animechs universe!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animechs

This project was made in 2 weeks for GDKO 2024 Round 5. The challenge was to focus on "UI polish" and not on the gameplay. Thank goodness! Time ran out before I got very far. :)

• Focus of my "polish" was the cartoon intro, this itch page, and the wikipedia article. The intro was storyboarded and edited by me in Adobe Premiere. I smushed in 3D renders of the cat mech and manually animated over clips from Transformers, GoBots, Robotix, and Care Bears--scraped from YouTube. (SHHH don't tell the lawyers...)
  
• Story, code, design, models, VHS shader, and illos by me, HugBug. This is a homebrew WebGL engine, so please let me know about bugs.
  
• Terrible theme song lyrics written by me and performed by Noa. Underlying music licensed from Pond5.
• The AniMechs idea came about while wondering what a cheesy 1980s robot toy line "for girls" would be like. The first game in the universe was a comic book space flight sim. Learn more from this imaginary Wikipedia entry.
  
• Photos licensed from DepositPhotos then frankensteined in Photoshop. Bits of the VHS cover were made with NightCafe AI.
  
• Voice over by ElevenLabs.
• Sounds from Freesound.org.
• Fonts from Fontspace.

Thanks for playing!
YOU are the BEST! :)