AI Inspiration WorldWhat it is
Pucks & Bruises is a pixel-art arcade hockey game by demigodofwine; the game page describes it as hockey the way cartoons draw it. Each team has four skaters and a goalie, over three periods with line changes, fatigue, overtime and shootouts. Passes, wind-up shots, dekes, poke checks and body checks all come from six buttons. There are ten super moves, such as Fire Puck, Boomerang and Cannonball, and each one has a counter. During a match you can challenge the other team's star to a fight, or refuse and pay in energy: punches, blocks and jersey grabs, gloves and helmets flying, and a knocked-out player floats off to rest for the rest of the game. In the author's words: "No blood, just bumps and band-aids." There's also a team builder, an eight-team tournament and eight training lessons. You can play alone against the AI, or with up to four people at one computer using keyboard and gamepads, together or against each other. It isn't online multiplayer. The author's AI disclosure on the page lists AI assistance for code, graphics, sounds and text, without naming a model.
Who it's for: Friends who want a lively sports game on one computer, and players who are fine with cartoon fights.
Before you start: It's a free download for Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux, and needs about 300 MB of space. It's in English and Russian, and it's still in development. The author says the game isn't code-signed yet, so your system may warn you the first time: on Windows you click Run anyway, and on macOS you click Open Anyway in System Settings. The page also gives a Terminal command that removes macOS's quarantine flag from the download; that command tells the system to stop checking the app, and AI Inspiration World doesn't recommend copying it. The page gives no license for the game as a whole, only that the Godot engine is MIT-licensed.
Based on the game page's public information. Not tested by AI Inspiration World.