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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