Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser

by headcr4sh • 6 years ago

71 27 6 years ago

headcr4sh5• 6 years ago

Welcome to a magical world full of mystery and wonder. Dive in and explore the world of “Friendly Fire” and meet all its inhabitants in a quest to save the world from an unknown destiny. What dark secrets does this twisted world hold?

“Friendly Fire” is a 2d platform adventure game with handcrafted pixel art, an original soundtrack and lots of love put into the creation of the characters and dialogues.

The game is DRM free, contains no tracker cookies or other evil stuff and should even be fun to play. Even the sources of the game are available and can be found on Github (https://github.com/friendlyfiregame/friendlyfiregame/).

forgotmypw17• 6 years ago

Very nice! I enjoyed playing it so far, and plan to return for more.

jamestenglish• 6 years ago

Appears like it may be experiencing the hug of death. https://play.friendyfire.com/ is returning 404

mattl• 6 years ago

I can't even get the server to respond.

rewq4321• 6 years ago

Same :[

bartread• 6 years ago

I'm not getting a 404, but rather a DNS error now.

headcr4sh5• 6 years ago

Yeah... my bad. Should now be working as expected...

headcr4sh5• 6 years ago

I misconfigured stuff. It should now work as supposed to.

tootie• 6 years ago

This post is 2 hours old and I downloaded and played through the whole thing. It's really cute and fun. Not very challenging, but I actually like games that aren't a huge time suck.

nyanpasu64• 6 years ago

Are you supposed to be able to throw an item, enter a door, and pick the item back up during fadeout?

headcr4sh5• 6 years ago

it's a glitch. But we decided that it's a glitch that should make for an alternative way to play ... and even an alternative ending.... talk to the dog in the bird's nest up to the left...

Pfhreak• 6 years ago

Is that an enby (or rather, en-bee) I see in the trailer?

dealpete• 6 years ago

I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.

headcr4sh5• 6 years ago

I see your point...

... but...

umvi2• 6 years ago

Looks like you can support the creator by buying in on Steam (edit: looks like it's free on steam as well): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1311660/Friendly_Fire/

I'm contemplating doing a similar thing, I wonder how viable it is (100% open source game that can optionally be purchased on Steam/Itch)

Cyphase4• 6 years ago

An example of that model is Mindustry:

https://mindustrygame.github.io/ (Open source)

https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry (Pay-what-you-want, recommends $6.00)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127400/Mindustry/ ($5.99, with various Steam integrations; it has over 4,900 _reviews_ by people who _purchased it on Steam_, which indicates a lot more purchases. See also this: https://mindustrygame.github.io/wiki/faq/#why-are-you-chargi...)

Cyphase4• 6 years ago

I haven't been able to run in the game. I've tried the Run button and double-tapping, both suggested by our friend in the shadows, but nothing is working. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm on Firefox 80 on Linux.

EDIT: (TLDR: Try using Shift to run.) Doh, I should have thought of this earlier when the in-game UI said to use E to interact, even though the control menu said to use Shift. Shift is what lets me run. So either a weird bug, or just a simple mistake in the control menu. That still doesn't explain why shadow person says to double-tap the direction keys if you go back and ask again. Probably left over from a previous iteration.

gus_massa• 6 years ago

[spoiler alert?] You must press the shift button an then the arrow to the left or right. I got confused too, the drawing is not very clear. It is in the help, so I think it is fair to tell that.

Cyphase4• 6 years ago

For me, the help says that Shift is to Interact, and E/Enter are for Run. When I walk by an interact-able entity, an E button floats above it.

Cyphase4• 6 years ago

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a spoiler, but it's possible to throw an item, activate a door, then catch the item before you go through.

protopete• 6 years ago

Likely a bug. I carried the skull item and got this error when trying to dance:

  Uncaught Error: Frame tag not found: dance-carry
    getTaggedFrameIndex Aseprite.ts:140
    update Player.ts:859
    update GameScene.ts:424
    update Scenes.ts:130
    update Scenes.ts:128
    update Game.ts:107
    gameLoop Game.ts:86
  Aseprite.ts:140:18
    getTaggedFrameIndex Aseprite.ts:140
    update Player.ts:859
    update GameScene.ts:424
    update Scenes.ts:130
    forEach self-hosted:216
    update Scenes.ts:128
    update Game.ts:107
    gameLoop Game.ts:86
    gameLoop self-hosted:1171

hnick2• 6 years ago

It's intended. Talk to the hand about the bone.

sebastos• 6 years ago

Seems like I can jump while running to the left, but not the right. Couldn't make it across the first bridge!

hnick2• 6 years ago

I think I got soft locked by going to the tree before talking to the fire. The only way back is the door and there is no bouncy mushroom on that side.

Also taking the bone to the cloud doggy doesn't seem to do anything even after his brother told me to.

Fun game though I'm not sure if I am missing some endings.

umvi2• 6 years ago

I jumped across the river to the other side (if you press jump when your foot is like a pixel above the water you can jump) and then dude in the cave ended the game with the "soft locked" ending.

ioseph• 6 years ago

Nice game! Looking at the source it appears as though you wrote the engine from scratch, this is super impressive!

butz• 6 years ago

Actually tried using controller to play this game in browser. Please add using direction pad for controlling character, as it is a bit more convenient for 2D games than using analog stick. Pause menu somehow ended up on left analog "click", not back. Using Xbox 360 controller on Firefox. Fullscreen mode would be nice addition too.

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