A game by DeRail Games for Xbox 360, originally released in 2010.
This is the second game in DeRail’s trilogy of titles that stars a bouncing emoticon named Hug. In his first adventure,
Jump’n Bounce, Hug bounced his way through a series of 50 single-screen platforming levels (plus 10 challenging director’s cut levels), making his way to the shiny golden star at the end of the level, and avoiding enemies and spikes along the way. What set the game apart from other platformers on the market was the fact that Hug was unable to stop bouncing, which forced players to think about how to get through the environment without direct control of platforming’s one defining move: jumping. The world takes on a very different appearance when jumping is removed from the player’s hands, requiring new sets of skills to be mastered, such as long lateral bounces, and the act of jumping
under enemies instead of over them.
Hug makes his return in
Panic Attack - The Devil’s Favorite Game. The basic controls are still in place: Hug can move to the left or right, but he cannot stop bouncing. There are only 2 other controls available to the player. One is a double-jump, which you’ll need to use often to get over obstacles, avoid spikes, and perform basic environmental navigation. The second move sends Hug down toward the ground at a high speed. In Jump’n Bounce, this slam move allowed him to smash through certain types of bricks and to navigate under spikes, enemies, and low ceilings.
