Honk Your Heart Out
A downloadable game for Windows
Honk Your Heart Out is a goose courtship dance rhythm game. All elements of the project were created in the span of 48 hours during to 2023 Chillennium Game Jam held at Texas A&M University. The creators of this game are all A&M students & now alumni. This is a stylized game using a combination of Unreal's unlit materials and custom stylized shaders. In preparation for this game jam, we set up source control using Perforce and a shared drive for brainstorming and management.
Controls: WASD, HJKL, Arrow Keys
Members: isabella bradberry, jack warham, joshua martin, krystal gonzalez
Credits: Unreal Engine, Maya, Blender, Substance Painter, Procreate, Musescore, Audacity, Premiere Pro and Photoshop.
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Install instructions
This application is only built for Windows
Download the zip file
unzip it
go to HYHO > HonkYourHeartOut > Windows and run HonkYourHeartOut.exe
Controls: WASD, HJKL, or Arrow Keys
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Hello,
I streamed your game this past weekend! Overall, for a game built in 48 hours, it's pretty impressive.
I enjoy playing game jam games from time to time, but it's always weird to review them because obviously there are going to be a lot of short comings. However, I have always included a written review as a courtesy for developers, so I feel like it is my duty to provide critique on this game: just don't take any of it too seriously since there was very limited time in what you could implement.
The shaders and art are really nice to look at. It has a really beautiful style and I would be interested to see a full game made using these shaders.
As far as the game play goes, I definitely appreciate the small chance to get to grips with the controls before diving in, but once you do dive it, it sort of feels like you are diving straight into the deep end. Since the game uses arrows to indicate the button presses it might have been helpful to include arrow keys as a control option. Alternatively, changing the icons to something entirely different so the association with the key isn't directions but objects might be better (for example, H could be a heart, J is a jewel, K is... I don't know, get creative. You get my point)
I did have one small bug where after failing the game the first time, I was unable to restart, nor was I even able to exit the game, requiring me to Alt+f4 in order to relaunch the game and retry.
Anyways, the Goose genre is a sparse genre taken up by (afaik) a single game, so there's plenty of room to spread your wings (so to speak), so I hope to see more goose games in the future.
If you'd like to watch my experience with your game, I've linked the archive below. You can click the timestamps to jump to when I start playing your game.
small edit:
I just noticed on your store page it says you can use arrow keys, but I'm pretty certain I tried using arrow keys and it didn't work. The button prompt at the start of the game didn't show arrow keys so I thought it was not an available control option.