Smooch 'Em Up!

Hiya everyone!

In Smooch 'Em Up!, you play as a well-dressed Dolphin with a Turtle companion that wants to protect her water from mad chickens, using the power of love! Try to survive, defeating as many chickens as you can, in this infinite arcade game with an ever-changing map!

The Dolphin automatically follows the mouse cursor; take aim with the mouse cursor and shoot kisses by pressing the E button, the Space button or the mouse's Left Click. You can also have the Dolphin stay still by holding the X button or the M button. 

Alternatively, you can choose from the Options menu to use the WASD movement to move with WASD or with the arrow keys.

The chickens will appear at an increasing rate, and they'll try to eliminate your water tiles, but they'll try to knock you out too, so watch out!

Your Turtle companion will help you by digging up water tiles! He'll do it every now and then, but you can also decide to shoot him a heart to make him dig immediately. Note that the Turtle must be on the ground to dig up new water, and that he gets scared when chickens are nearby!

He will hide in his shell until you defeat those pesky enemies.

When a Turtle digs up some water, there's a chance a new Turtle friend spawns from it! Pay attention to where the Turtles are, because water is very important, for two reasons: it slows down chickens, and heals you! 

Stay in the water for a while to heal from damage!

After a while, power-ups will start to spawn on the map. They're yellow hearts full of electricity. 

When you pick up a power-up, you'll begin glowing of a yellow light: this means that your next kiss will generate an unstoppable giant heart, full of the POWER OF LOVE! Use this powerful kiss wisely, to defeat many chickens with a single heart!

The map won't reset between games. This means that when you play again, the map will be the same as when you finished the last game. Additionally, you'll start with more Turtle companions if you defeated enough chickens across all games. Keep playing, and you'll start with more and more Turtle companions and keep beating your record!

From the Options menu, you can reset your save file if you feel like starting the game with the default map and one starting Turtle companion!

This game was made as a self-imposed challenge, where I took suggestions from Twitter users to build a game around. Here's the thread! The suggestions I used were:

1. A well-dressed dolphin
2. A turtle companion
3. Legacy mechanics
4. Chickens
5. A giant eyeball enemy (couldn't add it in time, maybe in a future update)

Thanks for playing, and have a wonderful day!

Credits:

A game by LudosGD!

Heart Sprite by DanSevenStars.xyz (OGA account) (modified and original) (under Attribution License 4.0)

Music:

• Shake and Bake by Matthew Pablo (website) (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• Grassland Theme by CodeManu (twitter profile) (under Attribution License 3.0)

Sounds (freesound.org):

• Powerup2 by AbbasGamez
• Ding 3 by andersmmg (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• Normal click, 8-bit Collect Sound by Breviceps
• chicken (modified) by JhennaSide
• cute creature look out by martian
• A_Step_on_Dirt (modified and original), Cartoon_Pop_01, Powerup_07 by MATRIXXX_ (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• a kiss by Natty23 (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• Chicken Single Alarm Call by Rudmer_Rotteveel
• 40-Splash (modified and original) by SansArt
• Cloth impact 1 by Sophia_C (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• kiss_real by stereostereo (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• kiss1 by Taira Komori (under Attribution License 3.0) 
• Short kiss by Vospi
• hover over a button by zepurple

Font: Press Start 2P by CodeMan38 

Video on the Design of the Game!

If you're curious, here I tell the journey I went on to make this game. It was quite the challenge! I share some insights too. Enjoy! :D