Hedge Hug

Overview

Hedge Hug is a 2D narrative-driven single-player adventure game that explores low self-esteem and social anxiety issues.

Through interactive mini-games and emotional gameplay moments, the game tells the story of a caring and sensitive hedgehog, Emma, who is a ceramic artist struggling to love and trust herself. While experiencing Emma's daily struggles, players will help Emma to raise her self-esteem, confidence, and resilience, step by step.

Game Play

Hedge Hug follows an approx 40min long story arc, including a range of interactive mini-games, emotional gameplay sequences, in addition to dialogues.

There is no winning or losing in Hedge Hug, it is all about a journey of self-discovery and reflection.

Controls:

• Point & Click
• Drag & Drop
• Mouse Press
• Press the "R" key to reset and reload the game from the start

For optimal in-game experiences, we recommend playing with a Windows PC machine, using a mouse. 

Stay tuned for future Mac and Mobile builds!

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Feedback

Played the game? We would love to hear any feedback you have about your experience. Please fill in the short form attached in the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9UjqUgIZgE84KrWTMFlzow_j_19UAVCJPCf9m...

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Credits

• Mengqing “Claire” Hu (Portfolio)
  • Creative Director, Engineer, UI/UX Designer
• Timothy Pryor
  • Producer
• Marielle Brady
  • Gameplay Designer, User Researcher, Narrative Designer
• Aili “Alice” Qiao (Portfolio)
  • Gameplay Designer, User Researcher
• Elsa Liu (Portfolio)
  • Gameplay Designer
• Shenqi "Barry" Ye (Portfolio)
  • Lead Engineer
• Yi Dai (GitHub)
  • Engineer
• Sze Tien "Stella" Chen (Portfolio)
  • Art Lead
• Sakura “Rachel” Perry (LinkedIn)
  • Character Artist
• Celine Tang
  • UI/UX Designer and Artist, Background Artist
• Claire Barnhart (Portfolio)
  • Background Artist
• Katy Kellenberg (LinkedIn)
  • Writer
• Alexandria “Alex” Morales
  • Narrative Designer
• Brett Bailey (Portfolio)
  • Composer, Sound Designer
    
• Gage Tilly (Portfolio)
  • Sound Designer

Other early progress contributors:

• Hanxiu “Hannah” Zhang - Composer
• Naomi Shroff-Mehta - Producer
• Jiaxuan “Olivia” Yin - Art Direction Researcher