Hickory
The Mouse Went Up the Clock...
When the grandfather clock's heartbeat goes quiet, a brave mouse must venture far from home to restore its familiar ticking...
In Hickory, explore several realms, collect upgrades, and fight your way through a variety of enemies, including 5 exciting bosses.
Thanks for playing and enjoy!
All coding, graphical assets, and music by me.
Controls:
| Xbox | PlayStation | Keyboard | |
| Move | Left Stick | Left Stick | WASD or Arrow Keys |
| Jump | A | X | Space Bar |
| Attack | X | Square | J or Z |
| Crawl Ability | B | Circle | K or X |
| Dive Ability | RB | R1 | L or C |
| Pause | Menu | Options | Esc |
| Game Menu | View | Share | Tab |
Some lower end devices may have performance drops especially when played in browser. I recommend enabling Performance Mode in the pause menu if so - you'll lose some visual goodness but it'll run buttery smooth. Or feel free to download the executable!
* Made for Metroidvania Month 29
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I wish there was a second game.
There's an bug in the cat's phase; when the cat uses its paw vertically, the game crashes.
Yeah, I got the same glitch as densch. Beat the bird, then the game totally freezes. Can't proceed at all. Tried twice.
Okay I'm stuck at the bird boss, likely softlock.like each time I give him the final hit, the guy makes the face, apparently being defeated and the leaf powerup floats somewhere fixed in the air, but the floating platforms are still there, character cant move. nothing happens.game stuck after the final hit is dealt .-(
using the web version in current firefox version in windows 10, (on an admittedly old 2015 notebook)
okay, jsut played the web version and replayed it to this point.
Same issue, so I am kind of doubtful that it is jsut my notebook.
Also I had the same ant queen walls tuck thing when I fought the ant queen and climbed up further than she was present with her juicy buttocks, so she screamed and threw me to the wall as usual but this time, I was stuck in the wall, couldnt move, the platforms didnt come back to the foreground and only the worker ants starts their downpour again.
but back to the bird thing, here is how he looks after the final hit, I fall to the floor as usual and cant move.
Nothing happenbs no matter how long I wait, so definitely softlocked there.
it's likely not too visible but the nboss has that swirling in his eyes, so he's done for good. just wont disappear alongside the paltforms and stuff.
I'm in the exact same position, also happened twice. Very frustrating!
I've replayed the Bird fight like 10 times because of this but I found a solution.
After you defeat the Bird happens next:
- player is frozen and can't be controlled
- a leaf spawns right above the player
And now the game waits for the leaf to fall on you. After this you obtain the new ability and controls unfroze.
BUT. Those platforms are still up and if you're standing under one them guess what. Yeah, the leaf falls on a dang platform soft-locking the game forever.
THE SOLUTION TO THE BIRD BUG: just make sure that after the last hit there is no a platform above you
hm not sure if I did what you meant.
but I jsut retried.
fought it and did the last hit while jumping from a platform.
upon falling down, i pressed left so basically mid air falling agaisnt the left wall, short wall sliding there.
the leaf fell on the paltform nex tto me, so while sitll on the wall(and somehow able to move)I wall jumped over to the platform collecting the
leaf.
basically jumped, did the last hit, manouvered dto the left wall during the jump, leaf falls on platform next to me, wall jump back to the platform and collect it. shows something aboutgrand father not waking up this night.respawn at checkpoint. go back in.bird fight no longe initiating, bird sitting there with egg shell over his beak.
and I can glide after a jump, no clue if this is the new ability or not.havent played this in ages.but either way the boss fight is considered done .
so either I know have the new ability or am jsut softlocked.while explore again
so in the end the whole softlock thing happens cause the platforms dont disappear upon boss death like they should?
also is the devloper not around ehre anymore?
been 2-3 months and he has shown zero reaction to this game breaking bug
huh guess basically only the final boss was left.
I didnt even need to use the air current, the final boss took like 4 hits and was kind of a joke XD
FANTASTIC. Reminds me of Thread, Kalinur, and thematically - Pipsqueak.
I wish the map would show doors and a way to track items and things you cant access, only thing missing for me. Doors and map markers (or a way to indicate room completion like Ender Lillies)
Also some enemy hit boxes are wonky and caused me to die alot (like the little spiders)
Could you update the Windows version so that the game can be played in full screen? You can maximize the window, but I'd like to play it in full screen.
HUGE BUG: When the ant queen screams, she pushes me all the way into a wall, making it impossible to move, let alone play the game!
happened to me when for the lolz I climbed higher than the queen with her juicy cheeks was, so she yelled and threw me into the wall, stuck there, platforms didnt disappear, only the walker ants started again.
If you update this, can you please make it so that the pause/exit button is a key besides Esc? This exits out of fullscreen in browser.