the beuys are back in town
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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WASD to move, K to pick up items, J to use item, Q to drop felt, E to drop item.
You play as performance artist Joseph Beuys in this recreation of his famous piece, I Like America and America Likes Me, in which he locked himself in a gallery with a wild Coyote, the animal incarnation of the spirit of America. Become a Shaman. Commune with and hug the Coyote.
Made using Processing, Processing.js, Minim, Minim.js, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition. I recorded the samples used for music and sound effects (banjo, cello, can of SanPellegrino).
My first LD!
EDIT: Thank you all for the wonderful support, advice, and reactions! I'm blown away by the generosity of this community. && some hints to get to the hug: Coyote will get more comfortable as you keep your distance. When it's had a long enough nap, indicated by it moving in it's sleep, you can wake it up with the triangle. After it's been able to nap and has moved around the room ~7 times without you scaring it off, it might let you hug it.
There are a few other little ways to get to the hug, but that's the shortcut. I hope that doesn't come across as absurdly convoluted or arbitrarily difficult to guess. When I was coming up with the Coyote's behavior, I really wanted to capture an essence of the original performance, the unpredictable/untamed nature of a wild Coyote. I was interested in creating a puzzle where the underlying mechanics of the Coyote's decision making might be obscured, but from experimentation the player would be deduce the implied emotional effect of their action based on the Coyote's reactions. Thank you all so much for playing!
You play as performance artist Joseph Beuys in this recreation of his famous piece, I Like America and America Likes Me, in which he locked himself in a gallery with a wild Coyote, the animal incarnation of the spirit of America. Become a Shaman. Commune with and hug the Coyote.
Made using Processing, Processing.js, Minim, Minim.js, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition. I recorded the samples used for music and sound effects (banjo, cello, can of SanPellegrino).
My first LD!
EDIT: Thank you all for the wonderful support, advice, and reactions! I'm blown away by the generosity of this community. && some hints to get to the hug: Coyote will get more comfortable as you keep your distance. When it's had a long enough nap, indicated by it moving in it's sleep, you can wake it up with the triangle. After it's been able to nap and has moved around the room ~7 times without you scaring it off, it might let you hug it.
There are a few other little ways to get to the hug, but that's the shortcut. I hope that doesn't come across as absurdly convoluted or arbitrarily difficult to guess. When I was coming up with the Coyote's behavior, I really wanted to capture an essence of the original performance, the unpredictable/untamed nature of a wild Coyote. I was interested in creating a puzzle where the underlying mechanics of the Coyote's decision making might be obscured, but from experimentation the player would be deduce the implied emotional effect of their action based on the Coyote's reactions. Thank you all so much for playing!