It's like you're poisoned or dying or going insane and you know it but you must dispense all your hugs with your very last breath!

Now I want a hug. :(
Loved the art style.
It could've used some music though.

I like the glitchy art style! Some of them make it pretty hard to read the text though. It's probably intentional, but, uh, I'd like to read the text. I mean exploring the world (good level design!) is nice and all, but the interactions are more interesting for me!

Arrow keys and Enter is a bit awkward. How about WASD/Space, or Arrows/X?

Missing music, minimal audio.

The changing window title as a timer (seemingly doubling as version counter) is nice touch :D

Is the end just a loop of "You made everyone feel better"?

That got really tough when the arrow keys got messed around. I like how the world got more glitched every 10 seconds. Also the changing colors was nice.

I'm getting a "Failed to create OpenGL 3.2 context" error, I'm afraid. I assume I'm missing something on my end?

Thanks for the feedback from everyone who's played so far! I'm glad you had fun.

And argh, sorry to everyone who can't run this.

Known issues:

* Doesn't run on Windows XP, because I built Plum on Visual Studio 2012 and forgot to jump through the magic hoops to allow backwards compatibility with XP.
* Requires a video card that handles OpenGL 3.2 or better -- I'm going to try and lower the requirements, maybe even have a fallback if the machine doesn't have shaders, so my netbook from 2008 can run this.
* I need to port this to Mac/Linux someday.

HUG MEEEE! The world glitching idea was great!

I'm confused and intrigued at the same time, I really like the mix of sprite/ascii-ish art

The glitchy artstyle looks great, but there isn't really anything else to the game. Just wandering around. Giving hugs is nice but they don't show and failing gives irritating sound effect. Background music would ease the pain of wandering a lot.

Lovely world, I like how dynamic it is as time flows. I like the characters and the fact that each has their own personality. Mad props on using your own engine too!

DEAR GAMES INDUSTRY: MORE GAMES WITH HUGGING AS THE PRIMARY MECHANIC PLEASE

I'm getting an "APPCRASH" error. No message box, nothing in the console... :/
I'm on Window 8 Professional 64 Bit. My graphics card supports OpenGL 4.3. I also have the Visual C++ 2012 runtime installed.

such a wonderful game.

It's so creepy to watch the world get corrupted as you wander around, unable to provide enough hugs to help anyone.

I've made an update, that changes no gameplay, just hopefully addresses a few compatibility issues on Windows.

* Rebuilt the exe with "Visual Studio 2013 Preview - Windows XP" platform toolset. Should actually work on XP now!
* Made a fallback for people who can't support OpenGL 3.2, lowering the video requirements to OpenGL 2.1 or higher.

Tell me if this works!

Another update, for super compatibility. If Plum fails to find OpenGL 2.1 support, it will fall back on legacy pipeline rendering that should behave identically to the default render engine. If your video card claims to support GL 2.1 but actually sucks, create a file named 'plum.cfg' with the line 'legacy 1' in it to force the legacy renderer to be used. Now anyone can (hopefully) play cheesy 2D games, at least on Windows!