Octodad's wife arrives back from the store and on top of all her shopping is a banana. He then appears at Octodad's living room window and startles him, the screen inks black and the player is back to the game.Īfter entering the kitchen another cut scene follows. The head chef of this restaurant is crazed and his obsession is to kill, cook and eat Octodad. The advert on the television shows a fish restaurant called 'Fujimoto'. Another cut scene appears showing Octodad watching TV. Once all the objectives are complete Tommy graces his father with the key to the grandfather clock in which his suit is stored. The final challenge is a race around the living room, which given the control method is a lot more difficult. Octodad has to knock down a tower of blocks, a simple act with the controls, and then score a goal into his son's 'goal', which is really a cardboard box, this is a more challenging task, yet it is still manageable. As even chickens have a spine, Tommy concludes that must make him an OCTOPUS, causing Octodad to take the matter at hand seriously and thus beginning the gameplay for this segment. Jokingly, his son says that he could ground him, but that would make him a chicken.

It is his son who states that Octodad must get past a 'gauntlet of awesome challenges', before his suit can be retrieved, to which Octodad reacts with relative uncaring. Upon entering the living room a cut scene appears.

( July 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. To move the left and right 'leg' tentacles for walking, the player must press and hold the right mouse button and push the mouse forward and release when they want to put the mouse back down and take a step. All of his limbs are controlled independently, however, in 'attack' mode, only the legs are available to the player. The first is default mode, used for moving the character throughout the game, mainly within the confines of the family house. There are two different modes within Octodad the user can switch between in order to complete tasks. Fujimoto is the only character who sees through the protagonist's disguise from the beginning. The antagonist of the game is the manic Japanese chef Fujimoto, who obsessively seeks to expose the octopus' secret and cook him. The gameplay largely revolves around the balance of keeping this charade alive while completing household chores, and evading his wife Scarlet's increasing suspicion of her husband's strange behavior. In Octodad, the player is in control of an octopus posing as a human man with a normal, human family. Ī screenshot of the game, showing the main character. Dadliest Catch was released on January 30, 2014, and was one of the first titles to be given the Steam Greenlight.

The gameplay consists of primarily ragdoll physics, turning mundane tasks into significant challenges. The plot revolves around the player, controlling Octodad, attempting to complete various household chores and tasks while maintaining his secret. The game features a humorous plot revolving around the central character, an octopus who is undercover as an average human with a family. The game was developed for the Student Showcase of the 2011 Independent Games Festival, and would go on to be one of 8 winners in the Student Showcase award of that year. Octodad is a freeware independent video game developed by a group of students at DePaul University, many of whom would go on to form Young Horses, Inc., the developers of its sequel Octodad: Dadliest Catch.

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