Fullscreen recommended

Your tiny friends are being captured by self-reproducing robots!  

Who knows what they're doing with them?

Don't get too worried, your friends are extremely tough! Not even steel can stop them when given a little push. Help them escape by lending your opposable thumbs and knowledge of projectile motion!

Break them free and they will fight alongside you. Take down the three self-reproducing servers that are targeting your pals, and wipe your hands clean of their dusty circuitry.


"A Helping Hand" is a 2D platforming roguelite where the weapons are your friends, and also your "money". Each animal behaves differently when fighting, so some situations have to be approached accordingly. Each enemy room is randomly picked from a bank of premade levels depending on which "floor" you are on, and enemies get tougher to destroy as you continue.

Controls

  • WASD or Arrow Keys
    • W,  Up :  Jump
    • S ,  Down :  Interact
  • Space
    • Press and release to throw your fluffy (and slimy) allies to attack enemies!

  • Find your lost friends along the way and break them free with [S] or [Down]
  • Throw your friends at robots with [Space]
  • You can only go on to the next area when all enemies are destroyed
  • Find rest stops along the way, you can release two of your friends to safety with [S] or [Down] to get upgrades!
  • Gather forces and take down the three bosses to live in peace


This game was made for the 7DRL Challenge 2021

 This is my first game in Unity and my first game jam: 

  expect bugs and let me know what you think!

Music:  "Blueberries" by Victor Kraus

Sound effects were generated using ChipTone

Download

Download
AHelpingHand.app.zip 37 MB
Download
AHelpingHand.zip 38 MB

Install instructions

Open zip and run 7DRL.exe

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