Apple Hunter

Collect the falling apples with the cars before they hit the ground and break. Red apples give you score,  gold apples restore some health. After every 5 collected apples you can use dash to go fast for a short time. If your health bar goes to zero, game is ended.

Details

• Hand-drawn graphics
• Made with raylib, rFXGen, Box2D
• Runs on Windows, Linux,  Steam Deck
• Control: keyboard or game controller
• Local multiplayer (max 4 players)
• Falling apples, health bar, vehicles, dashing

Difficulty is tuned for children (and respects the actual number of players).

This game is built with my 6-year-old daughter for fun 🙂

Controls

Keyboard: 

• Player 1:
  Move: left arrow, right arrow
  Change car color: up arrow
  Dash: down arrow (available after 5 collected apples)
• Player 2: A, W, S, D
• Player 3: numpad 4-6-8-5
• Player 4: H, K, U, J
• Help: F1

Game Controller: Use  the left stick to move left or right, button "A" to dash, button "B" to change car color, hold button "Y" to exit the game. Help: "menu" button.

The game starts in single player mode. 

To add more players, just start to move with another player (use another game controller or press A, W, S, D keys, etc.)

Install instructions

Windows: download the zip file, extract it and run the win_x64\game.exe

Linux: download the zip file, extract it and run the linux_x64\game

Steam Deck:  upload the files with rsync or Warpinator or something similar.  For example copy the files to /home/deck/Desktop/apple_hunter.
Add  Apple Hunter to your library as a 3rd party game:

• Name: Apple Hunter
• Target: /home/deck/Desktop/apple_hunter/linux_x64/game
• Start in: /home/deck/Desktop/apple_hunter/linux_x64/
• Launch options: -f

Available command line parameters

• -f                            fullscreen mode (default)
• --windowed    windowed mode
• -w WIDTH       screen width
• -h HEIGHT      screen height
  
• -t FPS                 target FPS 

For example: game -f -t 120

The game is tested on Windows 11 and Linux Mint 21.2 with XBox One S Controller and on Steam Deck.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!