BRAIN FREEZE

Swing your kid like a human Beyblade and launch him into a horde of sentient ice cream.

What is this?

BRAIN FREEZE is a local co-op (you can play it alone too) horde-survivor. One of you plays the DAD, the other plays the KID. The dad grabs the kid, winds up a spin, and flings him into waves of ice-cream enemies, the faster the spin, the harder the hit. Mid-spin, the kid also deflects incoming ice-cream bullets back at whoever fired them. 

P.S  we ran out of time. A lot of what we planned (more bosses, more levels, sound polish, better hand-drawn art, more characters) did not make it in, so most of the current art and audio are quick placeholders and online free source sfx.

Controls

DAD (Player 1)

Action	Input
Move	W A S D
Wind up spin	hold SPACE
Fling the kid	release SPACE
Grab the kid	E

KID (Player 2)

Action	Input
Steer	Arrow Keys
Tuck / extend the orbit	Up / Down

Both

Action	Input
Revive a downed ally	spin the MOUSE nearby
Restart	R

(If you click B, There's a fun boss if you weren't able to reach the boss wave!)

About

The jam theme was "Spin to Win", so we took it as literally as we could: a dad who spins his own kid as the primary weapon. No sword, no gun, just centripetal force and questionable parenting.

It is built for local co-op (one player on the dad, one on the kid) and it is fully solo-playable: one set of hands can cover both roles without much trouble.

What we were going for is a short, silly arcade loop you can pick up in ten seconds and enjoy for hours.

Credits

• Design & Code & Art: Eterna Studio 
• Audio:  https://opengameart.org/ & https://kenney.nl/ & https://pixabay.com/
• Engine: Godot