
Break Like a Baby
⚠ Destroy the house in record time before your babysitter catches you and your twin...
In this co-op online multiplayer comedy/survival game, play as a mischievous baby navigating the dangerous world of a typical household. Collaborate with your sibling to destroy items (by spamming keys/buttons), hiding from your babysitter under furniture, and breaking your sibling out of the crib if they get caught! Each round, the items you want need to destroy will change and the babysitter can hear you when you least expect it — so scheme together to win!
Babies can be fast, slippery and devious, but will it be enough to evade the watchful eye of your Babysitter? And can you do enough destruction in time before your Parents get home? If she catches the both of you... bedtime may be inevitable.
Play the original proof of concept HERE!
◢◤◢◤ HOW TO PLAY ◢◤◢◤
How to Win: You win if you Break All Items, and lose if timer hits 0 or Babysitter catches both babies.
How to Start the Game: (after putting in your name + selecting your character)
- Player 1 puts in their name in the "name" box, chooses a baby costume by clicking "baby clothes", then inputs in a word in the "Join" box and clicks "Join".
- DO NOT click on "Ready" until the other player has joined AND difficulty has been selected!
- Player 2 puts in THE SAME WORD in the "Join" box, then clicks on "Join".
Tips:
- Remember to use [TAB] or [T] to see the items you need to break! There's 7 per round, and it changes each time you play! Not everything will be breakable...
- If you get caught, it's up to your teammate to come rescue you - you'll need to "break" them out of the crib to get them out.
- You can hide underneath furniture to evade the babysitter!
- Sprint runs out on normal and hard game modes, so use it wisely! It also recovers slower and you have less sprint overall on hard ("cry") mode.
- Note: The game can technically be played single-player BUT you will lose immediately if you're caught.
◢◤◢◤ CONTROLS ◢◤◢◤
- Keyboard
- WASD or Arrow Keys to move
- SPACE, C, V, B, N, M (letters above space) — spam keys to break objects
- SHIFT to sprint
- TAB or T to view item list
- Controller
- Joystick to move
- Bumpers (R1/L1 or RB/LB) spam to break
- Right Trigger (R2 or RT) to sprint
- South/Bottom Button to view item list
- this would be A for Xbox, B for Switch, and X for Playstation
NOTE: All menus are navigated with keyboard + mouse, but game is playable with controller!
◢◤◢◤ TEAM ◢◤◢◤
- Alesha Pryor — Production, UI/UX
- Arnav Arora — Programming (Multiplayer), UI/UX, Visuals
- Dale Zhao — Game/Level Design, Visuals
- Derek Yu — 3D Art (3D Modeling), Visuals
- Kimya Taheri — Production, Game Design, Audio (Menu Music), Visuals
- Lukas Wedberg — Programming, Visuals (Shaders)
- Randy Manu — 2D Art, Animations, Visuals, Programming
- Ray Ochotta — Programming, Audio Design
Developed in 4 months for Major Studio Spring, NYU Game Design.
Based on 3.5-week prototype proof of concept game made in Major Studio Fall, which you can play here.
We’d love to keep developing this game (creating more maps, more QOL features, more game modes, etc.) but we would need publisher funding to achieve this dream! Until then, enjoy <3
External Asset Credits
Audio Credits: • Ice Breaking SFX | mickfire
• Shatter SFX | letssfx
• Crash Shatter SFX | PNMCarrieRailfan
• Baby Laugh | bennstir
• Baby laughing SFX | andreaskg
• Baby crying SFX | Robinhood76
Babysitter Animation Credits:
• Adobe Mixamo
◢◤◢◤ KNOWN BUGS ◢◤◢◤
- WINDOWS > WEB BUILD. But you can try either!
- Game "freezes" on WebGL when "quit" is pressed — this is normally the quit /exit button on the Windows build, which would close the game! Because WebGL doesn't have that, it appears to "freeze" instead. Feel free to reload the page instead.
- Videos on the Lobby ("ready" screen) sometimes glitch on web — sorry for the flashing colors! This is a WebGL thing, haha.
Updated | 8 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5, Windows |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (10 total ratings) |
Authors | kimya t., Alesha, Arnav Arora, Dale Zhao, F1shyGuy, CodeEnthusiast, beboq, Snowy79 |
Genre | Action, Adventure, Simulation, Strategy, Survival |
Made with | Unity |
Tags | 3D, Casual, Comedy, Multiplayer, No AI, Short |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Xbox controller, Playstation controller |
Multiplayer | Server-based networked multiplayer |
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Development log
- ITCH.IO FEATURED OUR GAME?? (on YouTube!)8 days ago
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This so fun game broh , i will recomended to my friends
This was a fun game! I played it with a friend, and it was way faster than playing alone. 😄 Playing solo is definitely trickier, but with a friend, the babysitter's attention gets drawn away more easily. 10/10 game!
The only issue I had was that the sound can't be adjusted, which makes talking while playing a bit harder. 😅 But other than that, the game runs smoothly and had no issues.
Ohh that’s a great point! Ngl most of us just lowered our entire browser volume in the system settings and turned up the Discord volume when we played online 😂
Definitely a QOL feature we could try to add!! Thanks for pointing it out! And glad you had fun with our game + posting a vid 🥺♥️
"The menus have to be navigated with a keyboard & mouse, but game is playable with controller".
That's not true. You can take the keyboard and mouse defaults, plug them into JoyToKey, and play the whole game with a controller.
Profiler programs have been around for decades. Some of them haven't been reliable. Some of them have frivolous proprietary restrictions (ie, Logitech) but profilers do exist.
The only way to render a PC game controller-unfriendly is to make a game use an entire keyboard, or to require mouse movement that is extremely delicate or rapid.
Great point!! Glad you got it to work for the controller and posted it for others to see!
By saying that, we were just specifying that by default, the keyboard doesn’t control the menu - but it was never meant as a restriction if people wanted to use profilers or mod their setup/our game! ♥️
got no friends to play with ): fire game th
https://youtu.be/LvBn9lqggTs?si=4JeKgZYJScySNEFm fire game, fun to speedrun :)
How do I know what room name to type in?
Great question! This game is designed to be played with 2 players, so type in any room name you want and tell a friend to put in the same code and you’ll be playing online together! You can see how many people joined your room in the lobby/“ready” screen (with the tutorial/controls).
If playing in single-player, feel free to type in whatever and join / start the game with that!
Ohh, thank you!, I was genuinely confused
Cry cry baby! 👶 Nice game and that menu music - JAZZY!
I BREAK
so replayable!
sick baby
fun