Content rating: E+10, contains cartoonish violence

Overview

While in halloween night getting candy, you and your friends had the not-s-smart idea to enter a haunted mansion as a joke, however it ends up having tons of spooky ghosts, and worse of all they want to steal your candy!

You play as the oldest kid of the group, who just came from baseball practice and now needs to strike those mean ghosts away.


Gameplay

In this 2D rhythm game you must defend your candies from ghosts by hitting them with your baseball bat at the beat of the music! The game emphasizes rhythm and timing, but it's made to focus more on fun than difficulty, aiming at experience for everyone to enjoy. 

  • 3 songs to choose from to play, of different difficulty levels and lenghts.
  • Controller fully support
  • Basic scoring system


Visuals

The game has a hand-drawn asthetic with a focus on cute little guys and humour, with a cheesy but fun story about fighting spooky (but kinda cute) ghosts while your friends cheer you on (at least most of them).

Development

All the game assets where made during the game jam duration, with the excession of some utillities, some of them available for free-use at my free assets github repository and the sound effects are properly credited in-game.

The game was developed using Unity 6 and all the sprites were hand-drawn in ibis paint (on my phone), the music was created on beep box and cleaned on audacity

Also check  Batter Up Game Design Document, where you can learn more about the game (controls, story, development, etc).

This game was single developed by me: Hypnotik Fox :)

If you liked this be sure to follow me so you don't miss when I update the game, and also check out my bluesky account if you liked my art.

IMPORTANT NOTES!!

  • If you get stuck in a level press R or F3.
  •  Most of the ghosts are DESYNCED to the beats of the music in the engine so don't worry!
  •  The VOLUME of the actual levels might be too loud so prepare yourself
  •  If you don't hit a ghost there's a chance of ghosts not spawning anymore in the level (resseting fix it) 
  •  In certain parts of the levels no ghosts spawn due to a bug
  • The end game screen can sometimes not show up, just reset the level!
This game was originally made for the Lil Guy Game Jam (2025).
Updated 14 hours ago
Published 10 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Release date 97 days ago
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorHypnotik Fox
GenreRhythm
Made withUnity
Tags2D, Cute, Game Jam, Hand-drawn, lilguygamejam
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any)
AccessibilityOne button
LinksBluesky, YouTube

Download

Download
Batter Up 1923 Windows.zip 54 MB
Download
Game Design Document
External

Install instructions

To run the game you simply need to dowload the zip file, extract it to your desired folder and execute the file labeled as "Batter Up" with a ghost icon.


The file swere last updated at 01/04/2025 at 21:31pm (GMT-3)

Development log

Comments

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(1 edit) (+1)

Good looking style, however, the rhythm part falls a bit short on the beats i guess? However the rest of the game feels incredible to play.

8/10

(+1)

This is an enjoyable rhythm game.

Thank you!

(+1)

This game has got a pretty good-looking style, and I'd love to like the game more.

But the rhythm game, part of this, doesn't feel so good. In the meaning that most things are a bit offbeat, or that there isn't any bpm to follow. 

Other than that everything's great, music's good and keep it up!

(-1)

Thanks a lot! I had some problems while coding the ghosts so their positions were all kinda improvised and don't match the beats very well, but I will later try to fix that up

(+1)

The art is so awesome!!! Also my favorite track is loud cats :) lovely game

Thank you! That was also one my favorite tracks to make for the game