Hamster King

Try to get to the flag in each level. You may need to find some hamsters to get bigger and jump higher; or lose some hamsters to get smaller by running into cages.

You can play by yourself by just hosting and then starting the game without any players connected, and play with two players locally.

Use the WASD keys to move around with W to jump. If you do not connect with someone online, you can also use the arrow keys as the second player's controls, to play together locally. You jump higher together so you need a second player to win!

The host can press R to restart the current level at any point.

Start the game by hosting in the "Connection" menu, you must have port 17451 forwarded to host outside of LAN.  You need to "host" to play local multiplayer.

If trying to connect to a host from the same LAN (e.g. connected to the same WiFi), run  ipconfig in command prompt on windows and have the host change their IP address before pressing "Host" to the "IPv4 Address" field from command prompt, which should start with  "192.168." . If you're using a platform besides windows,  I'm sure you can figure it out. (If you want a Linux version please ask! We were too lazy to set it up but one of our programmers developed on Linux, we will add it if someone needs it!)

Unfortunately since the game is direct peer-to-peer connection, some international connections have been shown not to work. We recommend if playing online to play with someone in your region.

Created for the 2022 Multiplayer Game Jam

Alexander Petshaft - Music
Collin Anderson - Sound Effects
Exuin - Programming
Mike Belousov - Programming
TheHibiscusPoet - Art