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GMTK Game Jam 2023

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A jam submission

Frost SurfView game page

Control the icy terrain to surf your penguin
Submitted by IcyLava (@icylava_), Nertsal, Daivy, Mikky_Ti — 1 hour, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#6584.0144.014
Overall#6783.7753.775
Creativity#8083.8383.838
Enjoyment#9803.4733.473

Ranked from 74 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Control the terrain instead of the player character

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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NoticSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I'm shocked at how smooth the terraforming is. The core gameplay loop is a little simple but still gets the job done. Great work!

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Nuclear Napoleon
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IcyLavaDeveloper2 years ago

Yeah unfortunately we didn't have time left for more levels and items. We had the idea of having to restart the level if you didn't collect all the fish but the deadline was already there 😅

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KoiCharkSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

This is such a neat effect! great job

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A Hammer's Hero
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IcyLavaDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks! It was a bit tricky, but I love how it turned out

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Obvious_SanSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

What a great idea! And also excellent execution :) Had a lot of fun figuring out how to catch the most fish. Awesome job!

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You just played yourself!
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IcyLavaDeveloper2 years ago

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the game!

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theburntcrumpetSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

This is really fun! Thanks for posting the github, I'm really interested to see how you made pushing and pulling the terrain so smooth

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One Of Us
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IcyLavaDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks! I use this helpful damping function to help me make it smooth: https://github.com/icy-lava/frost-surf/blob/3d10d9677ac2cf2afc40a0f2b0538b637a0e...

There's also an article on it https://www.rorydriscoll.com/2016/03/07/frame-rate-independent-damping-using-ler...

Other than that, it's just a bunch of tweaking to make it look and behave nicely.

Thanks for playing :)

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LavaLynxSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

wow! very unique concept. love the idea of contolling the ice level instead of him! just a small detail but at first i was confused how to controll between adding and removing ice, but then i got it, it moves towards the cursor position. btw Nice to see the new Godot version to run well. but how did you do that displacement thing with the ice?

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IcyLavaDeveloper2 years ago

Hey, thanks for playing! You played this really soon and we haven't filled out the page completely yet, will add some instructions to it at some point :)

The way I displace is that I have a bunch of points which gradually move vertically to the mouse when it's held. I have a polygon collider for the terrain, but for optimization reasons, only part of the points get set on the polygon (this happens dynamically throughout the game).

I don't know if I'm clear, but either way you can just see how I did it - https://github.com/icy-lava/frost-surf/blob/main/object/terrain.gd

Thanks for playing!

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