Click to play Wesley
Bram Van Damme has written a game about a man, a pizza and a whole bunch of rhinos.
He made it for a Belgian magazine called Humo, which runs (or used to run) a comic strip about this guy Wesley. Now, I don’t spreak Dutch, but Bram translated one of the strips for me. It seems Wesley ordered a pizza, but was delivered a rhino instead. He phones the pizza guy, who apologises, and sends along another pizza. Except when it arrives — uh oh, it’s another rhino! And the situation escalates, of course. Eventually the rhinos drink some cola, which solves the problem in a sense, because naturally cola causes rhinos to explode (a fact I did not know previously).
The game pits Wesley against a whole horde of rhinos, trying to stop them stealing all his pizza by throwing cola bottles. It sounds a little silly (it IS a little silly) but it’s actually great fun.
I got to see this game develop from the start, which was really cool. Bram added in the walk-cycles and cola-throwing before I’d even written the animation and shoot-’em-up tutorials!
Play the game here, and leave a comment to let Bram know what you think 
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Hi there Bram.
Nice game! I really enjoyed it for the first couple of minutes, but from there is just the same over and over again. But still it is a very nice cute little game! Good job!
A nice little thing to add would be a pause button
[...] man trying to protect his pizza from rhinos using cola. Same old story. You can read more about it here, or just click here to go play [...]
Yeah, about it being the same over and over again after a while, that’s very true. Because of time limits and deadline rushes I wasn’t able to add everything I wanted but I guess that’s always the case for every developer?
At one point I had to stop adding stuff and get it online. Maybe the concept could use a little more depth hehe.
I started programming this game with hardly any knowledge of classes and the avoidergame tutorial got me started. I only did some AS3 frame coding before this. Michael really helped me a great deal to get me started!
I tried adding a pause button near the end but I ran into a few problems
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I have some unused code & animations left to give the game an upgrade. I’ll see if I can add those eventually or just start a new game altogether!
Hi Bram..I was wondering whether is it possible for you to share the code with us.