Coding and music by Torin Tashima
This is a minigame that is meant to be only a small portion of a much larger, Legend of Zelda-style adventure game that is loosely based on Hold My Beer, the short film. In the larger game, the player inhabits a village that is either a future, post-apocalyptic Vancouver, WA, or is in another world or dimension that has been influenced by the Hold My Beer film, Galaxy Quest-style. The player starts out as an apprentice brewer whose job is to wash kegs, but their dream is to one day become a great brewmaster who owns their own brewpub, just like “Master Val” of the “Legend of H.M.B.” Their fellow apprentices ridicule their dream, saying that the “Legend of H.M.B.” is an old children’s fairy tale and that becoming a great brewmaster is nothing but a fantasy. And for a while, it seems like they might be right, until one day fate intervenes, and everything changes…