Internet Nostalgia: Hostility UF2
I discovered an old flash game called ‘2112 Cooperation’ on a random flash game website (I assume it was Y8 games since I used to use the site a lot). It’s how I discovered the flash game series ‘Hostility UF2’ which was created by 3DBBQ.
The game 2112 Cooperation is basically a dual-screen rail gun shooter with pre-rendered cell-shaded 3D visuals and a spy-thriller plot. The visual style, and the character designs of the protagonists and other characters looked so appealing to me personally. The gameplay mechanics were also impressive and innovative at that era.
As an autistic person, I’ve been addicted to that particular game for a long period of time. I was even hyper-fixing about it during middle school, and I couldn’t wait for break time to start so I could go on the computer and play that game again.
Since discovering that game, I looked into the other games of Hostility UF2, including Hostility UF (original games), Cyber UF2, Time Bomb 90 seconds, Battle Garden, and Street Skirmish. These games were awesome as well. The games were in Chinese, but most of them had important English text as well as subtitles for dialog.
It’s so impressive how one guy did the programming, game design, art design, and 3D graphics by himself. These games ultimately impacted my taste in art as well as my personal artistic style. It’s also why I love the colors blue and orange so much (Cyan’s color scheme is blue and Alma’s is orange).