This is one of the best I've played. The graphics and music are incredibly well done. Such a fun game ;)

My only gripe was the lack of control when it came to selecting levels and not being able to end a round once I selected a character. My browser crashed at one point during them middle and it didn't save my level completions. Not a huge deal, it's 48h, but just some honest feedback. Well done!

How did you do that in 48 hours?! It's amazing! 4/5 though, because the weapon doesn't have any innovative mechanics, just aim and shoot to kill.

Really well polished considering the time it was made in. Graphical effects and great audio made it feel quite close to the actual Hotline Miami.

Great entry! I loved the retro look, it was very mood setting. The music is good. Overall, very fun to play.

The graphics and sound are amazing. However, the gun wasn't great. A fun game, overall.

Great parody! I think basic movement speed should be higher.

Nice Hotline Miami inspiration :) Had a lot of fun playing it.

71300 :)

you've really got the Hotline Miami feel down perfectly. As others have said, the control and the feel of the weapon wasn't perfect, but this si still a stellar job for something done in 48h hours. Congrats!

Also the music was great. I especially love the track for level 3/6 :D Gonna grab that one from the source and stick it in my regular playlists!

This is a perfect entry for me. Nothing more to say

Really fun. Great Graphics, and amazing in 48 hours. However, i would have liked to see more animations. not that that made the score go down. all 5/5.

Played for half and hour.

neat game. graphics and effects are good :)

Excellent and very fun but the controls are very frustrating, it's maybe me but I found it was very hard to aim precisely.

Druuuuuuuuuug *_*

Nice inspired game, you captured the atmosphere of the original pretty well, despite the change of camera. No Azerty support so hard for me to play :(. Still cool though, unlike some other comments I liked the feeling of the gun.

Nice work.

you really get the hotline miami-ish feeling
good job!

I'm going to download this game and keep it.

It looks really close to the original (even the music). :)

Graphics and sound are really nice. It's probably just because I'm using a track pad and I'm not very good at this kind of game, but I found it almost impossible to aim before they killed me.

Wow. You realy did this in 48h? you sir, have a chance of winning this compo :D

Best game so far, no idea how you managed to do all that. Amazing music and gameplay, only problem I had was not being able to select a different character after death.

Great parody! The isometric graphics look really nice and work surprisingly well with the game. All of the visual effects are really cool too.

very cool! had fun hugging/killing enemy agents haha

Beautiful and well implemented mechanics. But embbed version is creating scroll bars.

Too good!

Simple enough gameplay, but the parody presentation is spot on :p Nice one

its challenging, but the part with the "hug" completely vanishes somehow , would be nice make it more intuitive

Nice work on capturing the Hotline Miami feel, eveything's there ! Great music, nice visual effects. A bit more depth and variation in the gameplay would make an awesome HL caricature :D

Nice and fun entry. The graphics are well done! Good job

It has a nice look and feel, but the walking was a little slow.

AWESOOOOME!

Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. Nice job! The level of visuals and aesthetics are too high for me to handle. :D

Liked the CRT look. But it's the third game I see using it or something very similar - is it a standard filter in Unity? Also It was very hard to get far in the game, hugging, surprisingly enough, is not a very effective weapon.

So after 30ish games now, this is probably the best. I can't believe this was done in 48 hours, it's crazy how much there is here. The music is awesome, graphics are awesome, having all the different characters is awesome, and there's quite a few levels.

I guess the only thing I would've liked to see was different shooting mechanics, and to make it more like hugging. It feels a little too much like hotline miami (you're still shooting people), and something needed to be more different to make it your own.

While the graphics and audio are amazing, (seriously, how did you manage this in 48 hours?), I encountered some bugs in the gameplay. (The AI got stuck in a wall, and sometimes left-clicking wouldn't fire for me.)
Overall a pretty solid game, great work!

It was annoying that the hearts got stuck on the walls, otherwise it was a good game.

Pretty cool looking, has the same mood as the actual HM! Wasn't too innovative with the theme and gameplay, but still pretty fun. Aiming was pain in the butt though, as the hearts hit the walls too easily. Also the AI was hard when an enemy was right around a corner. Nicely done!

It's a cool game but a bit boring and frustrating. You put a lot of work in this game ! Well done !

I'm a bit skeptical that you did everything yourself, how the hell did you make this so good, so fast? The only problem I have is that you can't literally hug people (Melee attack) and that you walk so slow

It's rather blow kissing than hugging)

If this is what happens when you hug people you need to stop hugging people.

Such a great style and a great parody. No complaints with the look and sound of the game and I bet it will rate really high in those categories.

This is so well done!

Was it made in 48 hours? Wow!

Looks like a nice tribute/parody, but imho, it's still about shooting and not hugging.

Nice, very hard to play on a track pad xD but other than that seems fun!

The graphics, sound, feel, and polish were all excellent. The game itself isn't great though because the weapon itself is just shooting hearts. The movement also felt very sluggish.

It was fun, though it does obviously snatch a lot from its titular reference. Like that there are multiple levels and masks to use.

Note: couldn't judge sound, playing while in class so sound is off >.>

Fun, sounds amazing, looks great, only problem is that I thought you moved a bit slow (even with graham), AI is about as dodgey as Hotline Miamis AI but a good effort for 48 hours.
The only other problem is that although the concept is fun, there isn't much innovation in the mechanics, but, if its not broken don't fix it

Love it! Great work.

Really fun game - felt much like the original

This is in my top 5 games on this Ludum Dare. Congratulations. A nice demake of Hotline Miami. Nice.

Awesome hotline miami parody, the sound is almost up there with the original ;D
Cool artstyle and fun to play!
My score was 72200

It's a shame you opted out of the humour rating because I wanted to give you a 4 or 5 for the sheer hilarity of "killing" someone with piles of hot exploding love XD. Other than that, this was a pretty fun entry to play and I loved how you've nailed the Hotline Miami aesthetic.

Amazing. hilarious idea, i love everything about this. wonderfully done. 5 stars for you!

VERY high production value, I give you that! Kudos!! The graphics have a nice "Minecraft meets CGA"-feeling (looks like I am not the only one who went with a CGA palette then!) and the filters and effects look (in my opinion) nicer and more fitting the established style than in Hotline Miami itself.

The gameplay is fastpaced and fun, the sound and music also closely paying homage to the frenetic pixel frenzy but, alas, the game mechanics do too. To the game it absolutely doesn't matter whether you're shooting hearts ("hugs") or projectiles. If you want to pursue that theme further, I suggest you find some mechanic that can't be switched for guns and bullets but is inherent to only hugs & kisses.

Very well done! I love Hotline Miami so this really hit off with me, and I live in Miami ;)

It can get annoying shooting in tight corridors and perhaps some variety in enemies, but I made it to round 7 so I think you did pretty good!

This needs to have the humor rating. "do you like hugging other people." You're a madman.

Very impressive, especially given the 48 hours time frame.
You really nailed the hotline miami vibe.

It would be perfect if the collision detection would work better (especially for the hugs).

Definite 5 star game! I've never played Hotline Miami in my entire life but if this is what it looks and feels like then I ought to check it out asap!

Pretty interesting variation of Hotline Miami although it would have been nice to have been able to switch out masks once choosing one for a level or switch levels once they've been played to try different masks. Ended up with a score of 94900.

Haha very fun. Love the concept and plays well too. Movement is a little slow I think, but really nice job!

This game is really fun and challenging, many expletives shouted while playing. At first I was kinda eh the movement is pretty slow, until I figured out how to switch characters. Then each level afterwards I tried experimenting with a new character. Only problem I have is if I'm hugging a wall (no pun intented) and I try to shoot the opposite direction, the heart will collide with the wall and not shoot out where I'm clicking.

The music and graphics are great, which made it seem like a great parody game of Hotline Miami. The only thing I didn't like was how slow-paced and boring the actual gameplay was compared to HLM, which was a bit of a letdown, but I'm still very impressed with how much was done in jut 48 hours.

Good job, the game is interesting and fun to play!

Awesome! Amazes me what people can do in such a small amount of time. Great music! :D

Very cool! Fantastic music!

Absolutely wonderful. Plays great, lots of content and some sweet tunes. Loved it.

whoa this is too neat to be true! really well polished for 48h and fun to play. i wish hugs would make enemies closer rather than getting them 'killed' though, haha. amazing job overall! :)

Kill them with kindness! Impressive for 48 hours

very good parody, you've done a lot in such a short time, great job ^^

Hugging, unique but effective. One of the better LDs for sure.

This is absolutely gorgeous. Feels so much like Hotline Miami.

Nicely done dude, this game is actualy not tat bad of a game. well done. esp for 48 HRS :)

That's amazing! Congratulations!

Love the shader work! That's crazy awesome. I like that you managed a character roster, that was a nice touch. Fun stuff!

Cool game! I had fun playing, though because of the view it was kind tricky getting around corners and shooting through hallways. The music and art were great overall, good work!

Excellent graphics and shaders! The heart gun was effective, but I was hoping for a hug sprite animation based on the title.

I don't understand why I have murder hugs.

Really well done, I loved the audio and the art of the game. Felt a little sluggish, but I guess that's part of the hotline miami package :P

Great game, congrats! Nice gameplay, and cool idea. Greatly done!

This is an impressive amount of content. As far as graphics and sounds go, you really have a solid Hotline aesthetic going. And with that shader... I'm impressed. :)

Fun little game. Could only tell what was different about Graham and Audrey, though.

Nice innovation!

Pretty cool. I liked the visuals, obviously a heavy reference to Hotline Miami. Not sure why I am shooting hearts at people trying to hug me - shouldn't that be a good thing :D?

Good job, game was really solid and fun! Would have like to see more unconventional weapon mechanics though

This was fun to play, graphics were really nice, music was quite good, overall fantastic entry

It took me five minutes to realize that the original Hotline Miami was made in a completely different perspective – you have reproduced its feeling very, very well. And killing people with the power of love is always nice.
But I think that the character movement could be a little faster – it really slows down the game's tempo. Anyway – I really enjoyed it.

A great parody of Hotline Miami! Best audio I have heard in a while, very fun to play, good graphics, ... a well-rounded game, a great one for 48 hours of development!!!

Really cool for a 48h compo. I wish I could do the same in such a low amount of time.

Great mood, funny concept, the movement speed is a tad slow for my liking, but it's fun!

I loved it. I only take up issue with the fact it's a clone of Hotline Miami but you shoot hearts, not bullets. The effect is the same though.

Looks fantastic. Love the 80s style. 5 Stars!

Cool hotline miami parody! You nailed most of the vibe.

Definitely pulled of the Hotline Miami vibe which is impressive in just 48hrs. Liked that you included the variety of masks also.

pretty rad entry~! shooting hugs/hearts to kill people haha~! very nice!

How did you made this in 48 hours? XD
Really nice job, one of the best so far! :D

Wish there were more options for hugging!

Just amazing! congrats!

That music is awesome! You've really captured the Hotline Miami vibe, including the "DAMN YOU GAME" when I die over and over (but still keep pressing R to die again)

Everything from the graphics, to music, to gameplay was a great homage and great game in its own right. I am thoroughly impressed.
Score: 65300

Great work! It's so cute. Nice to see HM parody there.

This is a compo game?

Wow, I really like the 80 vhs look. I would love to see some dev postmoretem

This is great. Very visually impressive.

Gosh, this is great! Awesome job!
Wait! This is a compo entry? Holy #$%@!

Decent presentation. I am not sure if it was just my computer, but it appeared to be running slower than it should be. Aiming with the mouse felt a bit laggy.

I'm in the process of writing up a postmortem. I'll post a link in the description when it's done.

the presentation is pretty awesome :)

Very nice looking!

5/5
Zack still best mask

Well done, I really like the isometric sort of view and the game felt fun and replayable

Very nice, found the theme to be bit loose but nevertheless a very enjoyable game

Wow. Just wow.

That was awesome! definitely a fun experience and looked and sounded awesome too. Good show!

Really solid game, but in my opinion it's a really boring take on the theme. You're basically just shooting guys except you've changed the sprite for the bullets.

WOW!

Graphics and sound are great for the time limit, but since it's called Hugline, I was really hoping for hugs being the form of attack rather than shooting hearts. CRAZY AWESOME sound and great emulation of HM art style for the visuals. Great job!

Very impressive work for the timeframe but could have taken the hugs further instead of just being a shooter using hearts as bullets!

Man, this one pretty trivial and only thing which save it is joke about hotline miami. Im lucky one, and played Hotline.

Such a good name! hah :)

I love Miami Hotline too! This game really got that feeling! It is really hard work to polish to such degree in a compo!

6/5!!! Cute & nice!

I finished the postmortem if anyone's interested. Here it is: http://ludumdare.com/compo/2015/04/21/hugline-miami-postmortem/

I think Graham's speed should've been the default for all characters. It felt closest to Hotline's speed.

It wish the hugs had a shorter range. It didn't feel like hugging.

Very nice quantity of environments and playable characters.

Enemies could be more varied. The game's difficulty was too static as well.

63000

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Mmmmmmm

Great audio visuals, great presentation, but the fact that it's not only a copy, but a very uninteresting one makes it all the worse for me...

The movement is so slow. The point of Hotline Miami was the twitch play. So that's gone out the window.

The "weapon" in the game is some kind of... heart ray? If you're going to call it Hugline, make it ACTUAL HUGS! The fact that you took a melee-centric game, slowed it down and removed melee confuses me a heck of a lot.

Technically impressive. Design is flawed.

Music was awesome!
Great game overall, I enjoyed the crt shader!

Scored 66500 points by the end!

Oh god, the only thing I can think about now is an isometric Hotline Miami à la Assault Trooper on DOS. Big bucks to be made for the first person who grabs for that idea.

Oh and this is an amazing homage to Hotline Miami. Top notch graphics and music.

5s all around! This game was amazing!

great game, great music, great art.
only one problem. i think it would have been a bit better if it was a bit more fast paced

This is very awesome.

I would have had the guys not die, maybe just stand there with floating hearts.

I thought hugging was a melee move, but I guess this works too. Good game.

You got the feel of Hotline Miami spot on, really enjoyed playing. The music was especially awesome and kept me playing for quite a while. It was difficult to hit enemies when you were in a corridor or doorway, which was a bit annoying at first, but then I turned into an extra challenge of having to lead the enemies out into the open before I could kill them with love. Would have like an actual'hug' melee option!

good job :)

Very polished!! Chapter 3 has a cool background music. Let him rescue his girl friend. :-)

As hotline mimmy fan I loved this game. Greate music and artstyle.
I wish this game would have a melee hug ability, but it would require to do some complex animations.
Also narrow hallways was a little bit annoying, but neverthrless I finished this game (=

Well made but not the most original of mechanics. I don't think the game should be in isometric perspective either since it does not fit the gameplay. There's a reason the original Hotline Miami is seen from above because it leaves no areas that are not visible.

You nailed the Hotline Miami aesthetic, so well done on that. the game controls well, and I like the variable mask powers. However, the "hugs" are just heart shaped bullets, so the weapon didn't feel to unconventional.

Seriously great audio and graphics! I would have preferred more variety or polish over more levels, but still a really well done job all around.

Super cool. Quite a feat for a 48 hour jam entry.
Great music. Did you tweet the Hotline Miami dev about this? he might be interested in trying it!

Impressive, how much content you were able to finish in 48 hours, and all the polish that went into it. Faithful to the source material without being a copy. My only beef was having to force the game to close. Good take on the theme, excellent work!

Wonderful work and a great send-up of, well, apart from the obvious, the industry as a whole.
Loved it.

Awesome! I think this is my favourite.

Graphic and audio is great!
But the wall block the bullet so much that I couldn't enjoy even more fun.

funny parody of hotline Miami.

Love the music.

Nice Hotline Miami style! But it's easier to play which is good for me.

OMG! Amazing game! Congratulations! Nice mechanic, gameplay, art, music! Everything!

straight up gotta say i am very impress with the work done in 48 hours, though i wish it wasn't so much like Hotline Miami. I wish it was more "in the style of HM". your gun can shoot heart bullets, but its still a gun, ya know?

Very nice art and style. I was totally hoping to go running around really quickly actually hugging everyone tho :p

If it's melee based attack, it will be more like hotline in spirit;

A great homage to another great game!

Great mood and musics. Too bad you're not really hugging people though. Would have made a better parody of hotline miami if you had pushed the hugging to the max.

It may be HUGe fun if not so slow movement.

So much awesome!

Really nicely done.
Great presentation.
How do you get it to show a youtube video as your first screenshot?

Moving the character was a bit difficult, however love the concept, art, music and hugging weapon. great game :D

To kill enemies with love is a really cool idea. Nice parody of Hotline Miami !

Eventually got the hang of it, doorways still hung me up a bit, as the enemies move fast, and the aim through them is precise. Overall real nice game, impressed it was for compo!

Very Cool compo submission. I am impressed with the amount of content you made for this game in the short space of time. Good work

Really great entry with neat visuals and music! Navigating around tight corners was a bit frustrating at times but this was a really fun game overall!

Nice game, looks really polished and finished with really cool music and art. But the idea is not very fresh, that's just HM with hearts instead of bullets.
4/5

Amazing job on 48 hours! The game is very good. Congrats!

Seemed to be a lot of shooting but not much hugging...

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Looks almost the same as the original. Altough i would have called it loveline miami since youre not actually hugging anyone, still great job
Check ours too http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=44367

extremely well done game - nice take on the theme - and great parody on HLM

Great Audio, graphics a little out of place, and characters a little slow, but Great game never the less!

Can't stop playing. Great game.

Awesome! Though' I may not give you full points in innovation ;). Great adaption! And in such a short time! I loove your shader!

Really well done, shame I played on a laptop! Nice graphics and sounds.

Solid entry

You can make characters faster. Even with zack i do lower combo strike than graham.

It's not quite like hotline miami, it isn't as fast paced or strategic, but as a game by itself, it's nice

Love the graphics, cute game! I included it in part 4 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/aLTEhRhwd8A

Hugs!

Nice homage! Just to let you know I got a NullReferenceException on the ending screen, didn't effect anything by the look of it, but brought up the dev console.

Huh. Weird. I'll take a look.

I really enjoyed the music and the graphics. I too made a game where the player shoots hearts :)

Solid entry, if a little repetitive. Love the music!

Loved the game. Specially the graphics and the music. Good work

Crazy cool adaptation of hotline miami. Incredible how people like you manage to make a game like this in 48H. Congratulations !

Very interesting and a greatime experience kverall. If I had one gripe it would be that functionally it's basically shooting - just with a gun that delivers hearts instead of bullets.
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Wow you have the aesthetic down. Super impressive for a 48 compo. I'm stunned that you were able to accomplish all that and the music as well. It was beautiful :)

good

Hot stuff! Great aesthetic, fantastic look with the scanline shader and the deformation around the edges and the CGA-like palette. I love all the characters with slightly different abilities, though my favorite is "hugs are more effective". Hug grenades! And this is a compo entry? Wow.

I might've had the "issue with player movement" you describe. After a while the character felt pretty sluggish, though the NPCs still moved freely.

The theme's kind of a wink and a nudge, right? You're still firing projectiles at nameless enemies, they're just called hugs. Remote hug projection technology.

Impressive work, so much things done in such few time, nice job!

Too bad the "unconventional weapon" was only a skin applied to basic guns and launchers...

Pssst! You are in todays Ludum Dare to Believe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysM6emYb6ZM

please do the same game with x2.5 speed, that would be awesome!

Awesome XOXOXOXO...splat

Amazing work, really nailed the mood with the art and music. Nicely done!

Fun little game, but I wanted to actually hug my enemies not shoot hearts at them.

Still well made though.

Awesome game! Couldn't have enough of it. I like those tiled screen-y graphics, and the music is cool as well.

Got 120700 on the first try using every mask once. My highscore is 211400 with Zack only. By the way, it's unobvious what do some masks do.

Why is hugging ranged? I'm okay with that, but the walls are so tight it's difficult to attack in 1 wide corridors, and enemies behind corners are difficult to kill, unless you are Molly.

Level 5 demonstrates some weird enemy movement. They pile up in a corner of the last room.

In the end, I'd like a "restart" button, I had to refresh my page each time. Also, using WASD and enter is uncomfortable. Either WASD and spacebar, or arrow keys and enter.

Overall, it's a very fun game, I completed it several times. But connection with the theme is weak, the weapon is conventional, except its name.

It was a good game. OK audio and Graphics. The only thing i don't like is the sluggish movement speed

Not really much of a hug when you're just shooting hearts at a distance now is it? Call it hugs all you want or make the projectiles cute, but that won't make the mechanics of your weapon anything close to unconventional. (Kind of a jab at all the entries that do this, not just yours. It's been irking me all week and I need to get it off my chest somewhere.)

I would've liked to have been able to change my mask after dying since I just wanted to see how they all played, but ended up stuck with my choice even if I found I didn't enjoy it.
The slow speed of the characters also hurt the game a bit, as with each restart of a level it became more and more tedious. If the entire game were more fast paced in general that would have not only alleviated this problem, but made the entire game as a whole much more fun to play. That being said, it was still fun as is, just not 4 or 5 stars fun.

Score: 99300

Really impressive execution, well done. I think it might have been even cooler if you had the hero giving the bad guys actual Free Hugs - you would have totally nailed the theme component! :)

Funny parody, with very well done graphics and audio. The gameplay could be better, and could have done more to fit the theme.

Pretty cool tribute to Hotline Miami, with a lot of love in it, for sure! :3 And, whoa, made in 48h!? That's an amazing work, sir! :D

Graphics style, soundtrack, controls. You just nailed everything and made a great game in a really limited time! :3

Nice work! Cheers!