The music track was created one night when Pellerano met Esposito in the latter's studio, during which Pellerano also voiced the sound effects resulting from Cuties being killed. During the weeks between the initial demo version and the game's release, Wendorf playtested the game and provided feedback on the number of souls needed to allow special abilities to be activated. Pellerano spent further weeks updating the game during his spare time after which it was released to the public.
The developers hired two adjoining hotel rooms and opened the connecting door, allowing them to concentrate solely on creating the game over a period of five days, resulting in a demo. The team consisted of designer and programmer Andrew Pellerano, programmer Panayoti Haritatos, graphic designer Tim Wendorf and musician Nick Esposito. Initial development began in November 2008 when Urban Squall met in San Diego for their annual meeting, 2008's theme was 'a game in a week'. The 6 special abilities the player can charge with souls include the ability to kill any group of Cuties on the board, convert any adjacent group into red souls, and double the number of souls obtained from any adjacent Cutie group. Markers are placed beside events such as level waypoints, egg hatching events, and the turn that ends the game if the player can't harvest more red souls. The left side of the game screen features a turn tracker, which consists of a number of notches that represent turns. A golden egg is produced whenever 10 or more Cuties are killed in a chain. Moving onto a tile containing an egg destroys the egg and incurs a small point deduction, but destroying a golden egg increases the player's score. Players move to the next game level after a certain number of moves, every new level increases the time taken for eggs to hatch by a turn. The result of this is that every tile the reaper travels on takes twice as long to spawn a new Cutie compared to tiles that housed a Cutie destroyed by a chain attack. Any tiles drained by the player's presence return to life and are furnished with an egg when existing eggs hatch. After a set period of turns the eggs hatch into random Cuties, which can again be harvested for souls. Each tile the player moves to is drained of life, causing the grass to wither and preventing the player from moving back to it, any Cuties destroyed in a chain outside of the initial tile become eggs. Chains of Cuties can be slain in this fashion, producing several souls. When a player moves to a tile occupied by a Cutie, that creature is slain along with any other Cuties of the same color directly connected to that tile. In "5 Level Mode" play ends after the player completes the fifth level, in "Unlimited Mode" play continues until the player runs out of life energy. If the player's life points are depleted then their reaper dies, the player must slay as many red Cuties as possible to continue playing. When a new game is started, the player begins with 15 life points, one of which is expended each time the player moves to an adjoining tile. The other three colors fill one or more of six special move buttons, allowing the player to use different attacks when the buttons are filled. Red Cuties' souls replenish the player's life gauge. When defeated, a Cutie releases a soul of the same color, which is added to the player's stock.
The mother grim reaper preparing to attack a group of black CutiesĬuties come in four colors: Red, Black, Blue and Gold.
Some issues, such as the lack of special effects and enemies, were highlighted this did not prevent reviewers from rating the game positively overall. The intensity of trying to keep the reaper alive was highlighted by some reviewers, such as saving the reaper's life by killing many Cuties. The game's theme was inspired by the short story Everything Can Be Beaten by Jhonen Vasquez, which features a monster that clubs animals to death and is unable to interact with them in any other way.Ĭritics praised the game's concept, gameplay and addictiveness. The demo was further tested after the five-day meeting, resulting in the complete game being released during March. The game was initially developed as a demo by Urban Squall during the group's annual development meeting, in a San Diego hotel during November 2008.
Only the red ones restore life the others charge special abilities that give the player more ways to kill further Cuties. Players control one of a family of three grim reapers and are tasked with moving around an island of hexagonal tiles, killing creatures called Cuties in order to replenish their own life force. Bloody Fun Day is a puzzle Flash game developed by Urban Squall and published by Kongregate on March 12, 2009.
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