Disco Bear

Disco Bear is a title featured at IndieCade 2017.

About Disco Bear
Disco Bear is the heartfelt story of a bear being asked to dance again. Across this short, ten minute long “meme-like” experience, you play the role of Bear, an expert dancer, as shenanigans unfold around him - possibly with some heartache along the way, and all with photoshop cutouts of real polar bears photos too!

Parodying 80s Disco dance films, this alternative comedy game seeks to use gameplay to invoke humor in a new way. As opposed to the awkward physics genre that has established but monopolized the idea of comedy through interaction, Disco Bear instead seeks to create playful humor by simple interactions with entertaining, surprising, and delightful results. Use the arrow keys to make Bear dance in one scene, speak profound dialogue in another, or just command the different ways Bear can cry. Do all this and more in Disco Bear!

Inspirations include SUPER PRESS SPACE TO WIN RPG, OctoDad, SpongeBob, and that one episode of South Park where Butters keep murdering everyone with his tap dancing dilemma. We wanted to make a game for our friends and their sense of humor, along with discovering something new in what gameplay and interactions were capable of, to then flesh it out into something polished. We are happy that our results have been strongly positive then, and people continue to ask us if they can share it with their friends.

In response, we are actively working to port Disco Bear to WebGL so we can release it online soon. Our fellow USC classmates have been the most supportive of this (especially the undergrads) and continue to be our biggest reason to push forwards.

Will Disco Bear dance again? Can Tiny Bear save the roller rink? Did we really include the url for every single creative commons image in our credits? Find out all this and more, in Disco Bear!

Screenshots
Coverage of Disco Bear on the IndieCade wiki!