Couch coop? 

Yes!

Cute little squeaking hamsters? 

Totally! 

Will your kids give you some peace and quiet because they'll be in love with this game?

Absolutely!

Furball Fury - a hamster race brawler

This is a project we made in the course of a semester for the course Game Projects at DAE, working in a team of 4: three programmers and an artist. It was done using UE4 with (mostly) C++ code, and some blueprinting for FX and UI. It was a great learning experience, as none of us worked in UE4 C++ before. We had to cut corners and skip features to meet with the deadlines, but we still managed to make a really fun game. Don't believe us? Try it for yourself!

Controls:
Left stick - move around
Face button down (A on XBOX controller) - jump
RT - boop 
LT - use powerup

Check out the dev logs for more info!

I am pleased with the result, considering it was done in UE4 C++, which I never touched before. 
It was a great and fun learning experience.

Team:
Matei Ungureanu (me) - programmer
Timo Nys - programmer 
Dries Cuyt - programmer
Marvin Schubert - artist

* We got the music from Freesound.org *