Posted October 22, 2022 by Matzerath
#Spike #Godot #demo
Soooo ... there is now a free demo of Spike a Love Story for Windows! The huge, major, gigantic change is that I'm porting the game from Unity to Godot. The Unity Engine is awesome, but I'm more at home with Godot's open-source mindset and really wanted to dive into it. As a result, I've ported quite a bit of Spike already! This was a challenge to be sure, Unity to Godot Engine isn't just a swapperoo; but I have learned to adapt to new engines over the years (I started out making flash games). I feel like I've made a lot of progress over what has really been only a handful of months of toil and madness getting this demo ready.
Long story short, the new demo is made in Godot 3.5.1. I'm getting accustomed to Godot 4's betas as well, though that's looking pretty much like ANOTHER port job in the end, I'm piecing it together in advance to minimize the SUFFERING.
So yeah - I'm still getting used to Godot's particular quirks, figuring out its shader and particle systems and all like that there. But I like where Spike is headed!
The demo is of one Mode: Human vs AI, so you can battle as either Mascot or Spike against an evil pile of C# code! I'll be testing new enhancements to general UI and feedback and stuff flying every which way, which will be updated in the demo.
Lemme know whatcha think!