Who Created the Art in a Hat in Time

"I'k a time traveling explorer! No surface area is as well dangerous for me and my umbrella. My mission is to notice all the time pieces then I can go home!"
—Manual Description of Hat Kid

Lid Child, the chief protagonist of A Hat in Fourth dimension, is a human-like alien attempting to collect the scattered Fourth dimension Pieces, the fuel for her spaceship, so she tin can return abode. She is also the first playable character, the other being Bow Kid for co-op mode.

Her real name is unknown, as it's never mentioned in-game, and in the instruction manual, she is listed as "Me," due to information technology being written entirely in first-person. She too handwrites her name in Korean-like symbols when she signs The Snatcher's contracts.

Contents

• one Description
  • ane.1 Concrete Appearance
  • i.2 Personality
• 2 Abilities
  • ii.1 Jumping
  • ii.2 Dive
  • ii.3 Wall run and jump
  • 2.4 Melee
  • 2.5 Homing Set on
• 3 Equipment
  • 3.ane Umbrella
  • iii.2 Hats
  • 3.3 Badges
  • three.4 Customization
• four Gallery
  • 4.1 Official Artwork
  • 4.2 Screenshots
• v Trivia
• 6 References

Description

Concrete Advent

In all respects, Hat Child looks like a small human child. The only possible difference between her alien species and normal humans is the presence of bones in her ponytail when the C.A.Westward Agents take an X-ray photo of her. While not officially canon, speculation (using the meters shown in the food level from the "Seal the Bargain" DLC) says her possible summit could be 2'3. She has brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a big, majestic shirt with a brilliant yellowish cape sporting a big zipper, also equally white pants and brown boots. She also wears a variety of hats, her favorite of which is a large, purple peak hat with a yellow stripe, likewise known every bit the "Child'southward Hat".

Personality

Hat Kid is shown to have an energetic and childlike personality. This is mainly shown through the innocent nature of her vocalization lines and idle animations. She is likewise shown to be rather mischievous, peculiarly with the Mafia, such equally when she knocks Mafia Goons off of ledges in Mafia Boondocks, or when she burned paintings containing the souls of trapped individuals in a fire in lodge to assist a group of Fire Spirits commit suicide in Subcon Forest. Despite this, she is also rather friendly, as shown during Your Contract has Expired in Subcon Forest, when Hat Kid attempts to befriend The Snatcher. However, information technology is also revealed via her diary that she only defaces Snatcher's contract asking to exist his "friend" to spite him, adding to the sassy and sarcastic office of her nature. Her sass is besides shown in enough of flavor text throughout the game. She can be shy at times, such as when Mustache Girl asks for her proper name, or during her idle animation where she stops playing with dolls because she thinks someone might be watching. In contrast, she is very frank and emotive in her diary entries, calling out many people and situations on her take chances as weird or unpleasant. In fact, she is shown to be irritated and upset by most of the things she encounters during her journey, particularly in Subcon Woods and Mafia Town.

Abilities

While Hat Kid's motility puddle is relatively small compared to other platforming games, it is a highly versatile one that allows her to chain together many moves and accomplish most areas with relative ease and style!

Jumping

Past pressing the jump push, Hat Kid will jump into the air. Pressing it over again while airborne volition perform a 2d jump. While this is a bones ability in most platformers, jumping and double jumping is the foundation to Hat Kid's impressive platforming skills.

Dive

By pressing the swoop push button, Hat Kid will dive in the direction she's facing. This briefly increases her speed and can be performed both on the ground and in the air. While diving, Hat Kid tin alter her direction very slowly. Dives tin be canceled just by jumping, which reverts her dorsum to her walking speed.

Diving in the air will briefly tiresome Chapeau Kid's vertical speed and lunge her in the direction she faces, giving her more movement horizontally. Jumping to cancel a midair dive also briefly slows her vertical speed. This allows the thespian to control Hat Kid in the air on a wider horizontal airplane and allows her to land more precisely on targets.

Additionally, if she dives on the footing, she will briefly slide forwards and remain on her belly until the actor presses the jump button over again. Withal, if the actor presses jump just as Hat Kid hits the ground, she volition immediately bounce back up and lunge forward into a front flip, increasing her speed farther until she touches the basis. Doing this in rapid succession tin outpace the Sprint Hat.

Wall run and jump

Artwork of Hat Child demonstrating the movement.

By jumping towards a wall, Hat Kid will offset to run up information technology, gaining some vertical altitude. She can then jump off of it onto a platform or another wall, where she tin can gain some more height and jump again. If the walls are parallel, this can be repeated to gain as much tiptop as possible. Hat Kid cannot run or jump off the same wall twice in a row. She must bound off of another wall or bear on the basis to jump off of that wall again.

If Hat Kid performs a dive and hits a wall, she will bonk her head and fall to the ground. Notwithstanding, if the player has the "No Bonk" badge equipped or cancels the dive before hitting the wall, she will start a wall run instead.

If Hat Kid does a double jump onto a wall, she volition wall climb higher than if she does a single bound.

Melee

Printing the melee push button to perform a melee attack. At the start of the game, Hat Kid will be unarmed, and hitting anything will cause her to hurt her hand and blanch in hurting. This besides does no damage. Fortunately, during the first deed in Mafia Boondocks, Hat Kid will acquire an umbrella equally her chief weapon. Hat Child can string together a maximum of iii swings with the umbrella at once, with a brief waiting period until she tin swing again.

Homing Assault

When airborne above enemies, a button prompt will appear over their heads to let the player know that Hat Kid can perform a homing attack. This allows her to speedily launch herself at the enemy to deal impairment and bounce off of them. This is useful for both combat and platforming sections.

Equipment

Hat Kid wearing a variation of the Dart Hat.

Umbrella

Later on the first act, Hat Child will always have her trusty umbrella, which she can whack baddies with. It doesn't do much else, just with sure badges equipped, it becomes a very handy tool.

Hats

The default hat Chapeau Child wears can guide her to the nearest timepiece or goal (although it is not e'er authentic). Throughout the form of her adventure, Lid Child stitches together other hats which give her several abilities:

• Sprint Hat - Allows running quickly,
• Time Stop Hat - Slows time downwardly for a limited time,
• Brewing Chapeau - Involves throwing explosive potions,
• Ice Hat - Turns her into an icy statue to bounciness off ice platforms and stuns enemies (but does no harm), she also gains amnesty to few attacks while in the ice. (After blocking damage, there is a longer cooldown)
• Dweller Mask - Makes dark-green come across-through platforms tangible, and purple patterned surfaces intangible.

Excluding the Dart Hat, all of these abilities volition need time to recharge later on being used.

Badges

Hat Kid can discover several badges on her quest that give her unique secondary abilities, such as saving herself from a peachy fall or lowering the recharge time on chapeau abilities. Most badges tin can exist bought from the aptly named Badge Seller, but there are some special badges that must be establish in the various worlds.

Customization

During each human action, Hat Kid can collect Rift Tokens. These are used to unlock either new aesthetic designs for her hats, new colour palettes for her clothing and sure hats, and new remixes of songs for the different acts. Rift Tokens can exist spent at the finish of each act that yous collect them in, or at the Token Machine in Hat Kid'south Spaceship.

Gallery

Official Artwork

Screenshots

Chapeau Kid peace and tranquility trip the light fantastic toe.

Hat Kid using her sprint hat.

Hat Kid using her Brewing Hat.

Chapeau Child using her Dweller's mask.

Lid Kid making a snow affections in a pile of coin.

Hat Kid's Apperance in Tunche

Trivia

• According to her diary, Hat Kid does not similar singing.
• Her "smug dance" is a reference to a dance Bob can do from Animal Crossing, with the cat smiling to friction match.
• The text "Nobody is around to assistance." on the bottom of the Peace and Tranquility screen in Expiry Wish Way is also a reference. A song that is the New Leaf theme with lyrics provided with an image of Bob smug dancing. This is a multilayered reference, referencing Pocket Camp.
• Development info:
  • Hat Child'due south original design was concepted equally a doll-like humanoid, with offwhite pare, shorter eyes with a thick outline and a yellowish color scheme for her hat and outfit. Information technology was about likely changed to make her look more innocent.
  • Once an early on model of her current design was established, it appeared equally if she originally wouldn't have her usual top hat worn.
  • The next model would feature her closer to the terminal look, but she has pocket-size irises.
  • The ending of an early on beta build featured an developed Hat Kid that, according to pb programmer Jonas Kaerlev, was going to play a significant role in the game similar to Adult link in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. However, this was cut from the game in an unknown time later in development. Kaerlev revealed in an interview with the YouTube channel Beta64 that this was due to negative playtester reception, and the team non feeling the idea would piece of work out.
  • Her name (or nickname) is displayed on the license plate of her scooter.
  • Chapeau kid and Bow Kid each accept their ain unique signature [ane]
• Hat Kid makes a cameo in the game Tunche as a playable hero.^{[i] [two]}

References

1. ↑ Update #11 Hat Kid joins the fight! Details on rewards! $158 to get to the kickoff Stretch Goal! Support Godhood!. Kickstarter. Published February 9, 2019.
2. ↑ Tunche Features A Hat in Time's Chapeau Kid and Local Co-Op Play. GameRant. Published December fifteen, 2020.

Characters
Main Characters	Hat Kid • Mustache Girl • Bow Kid
Major Characters	The Conductor • DJ Grooves • The Empress • The Snatcher • Walrus Helm
Hostile Characters	Enemy • Mafia Boss • Mafia Goons • Queen Vanessa
Back up Characters	Badge Seller • Cooking Cat • Goofy Mafia • Rumbi
Minor Characters	C.A.W Agents • Coffee Clerk • Express Owls • Fat Bird • Fire Spirits • Fish Dude • Goats • Metro Cats • Meowjima • Moon Penguins • Nomad • The Receptionist • Snatcher'southward Minions • Subcon Dwellers • Tourist • White Seal Coiffure

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