Nice game! Reminds me of Croc: Legend of the gobbos, but I doubt you've heard of that esoteric game. Making a 3D game for metroidvania month was a bit of a gamble since most metroidvanias tend to be two dimensional. I think the non-linear paths you can take through the game (whether intentional or not) really make it feel like a metroidvania despite the game's lack of bosses and enemies (there are only bats and bombs). You might want to fix some of the animations and missing sound effects if you want to release it as a finished game, but with the time given its a pretty darn good game.
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Kre-chan the Mole's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #9 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
| Metroidvania | #10 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Overall | #20 | 3.583 | 3.583 |
| Design | #24 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Presentation | #30 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Engine
Godot
Team/Developer
hatmajster
External assets
Sounds are from opengameart.org
Comments
Yeah, animations are broken, but i just decided that they don't break the game so i did not fix that, and focused on other stuff, but it does ruin the effect;)
I actually just wanted to make a proper 3d platformer, and instead of going into the usual collectathon, just aim for metroidvania. So I looked mostly at Rayman 2(the rope/hook), Banjo Kazooie (dialogues, puzzles, models), Kao the Kangaroo and yes, Croc/Croc 2 (for character design). I even have physical pc version of croc 2, though the big box was thrown away;)
I had one more world in my notes, but just would not finish it, so with many ideas scrapped its very bare boned. I really underestimated the effort for even making the 3d map, which is just simple poligons, but then tuning it, and making it correct, texture, etc. all takes time eh. And yeah, i guess making interconnected dungeon like map in 3d will almost instantly make a metroidvania-like game, because its all about exploration and honestly its much better served in 3d than in 2d. Though the 2d don't get people so lost;)
1 year ago(+1)
No;) There's no real destination, Kre-chan just has to inspect the tree. There should be a cutscene fired when you get close to it hopefully, but if not, if would you press LMB it should start it too.
About time... yeah, maybe I would've not want to do that for another month:D, but I really underestimated the efforts just for modeling the levels and drawing textures - it took me 1,5 of a week. Well I'm just slow as I was really just learning along the way, but also will have to come up with some tricks to do it better and especially quicker. And it was not my first time doing some modeling stuff of course.
Thanks for playing! I'll try to finish it before end of the year, I would just like to add few locations there, fix some bugs and flesh things out a bit. And btw, can You tell where and how did you get stuck?
All true probably. I experimented a bit with post processing, but came to conclussion that clean works best. At least during my quick research, because godot is quite lacking in this regard. I would like more to give some effects to the textures, specular maps and so on but well... time. The music and sounds will be there next time hopefully;) Shadow should also be there though honestly you don't have to do that much precision jumping in game, most probably its the bombs that caused you problems. They make the jumpings tricky for the most part, lava is mainly only in the first level, its not a one hit kill and respawn should be close. Though I agree it could be done better and especially shadow is a must.
If you could provide more feedback on camera it would be great, because few people didn't like it, but i have no idea what's wrong. Unless people are simply not used to 3d platformers anymore;) You played with mouse or gamepad? I just think I need to implement speed and invert settings for looking around.
1 year ago(+1)
Yeah, I knew some place will be hard to figure out, the lack of playtests shows:/ You should grab a ring in a room after the first powerup, before the trapped miner moles. If you get there, you have to open the gates again and You should see this, like in the picture. But its still easy to miss I agree...
The vertically is there because I wanted to do it, but its hard to be done when You have a platforming hero jumping high... So it became an issue I haven't addressed yeah. I don't know if moving camera away even more would work, because then it would get weird in tight corridors. Hm. But in the end You aren't really required to do many steep jumps - outside of maybe mushrooms at the beginning and once in the end. But I know that people will try when they're lost.
And yeah, I messed up about shadows:D I really thought that this game would be a bit more fleshed out, more enemies, more QoL features, but it turned out to be more difficult than I expected...
1 year ago(+1)
Ah its a shame You got stuck, I was so careful to never allow it... F11 should respawn You btw (see description). I think I found the place, I was lowering the jump height, and didn't test that part again. Bummer eh.
2, 3. Yeah... should be done, sorry. I really underestimated the efford a 3d game requires honestly. Just because there are sometimes easy solutions doesn't mean its quick to be done eh. I will fix that. And You guessed right, its 3 seconds. 2 seconds later another bomb will jump out.
4. Then we have to agree to disagree;) I really don't like maps everywhere, I prefer a solution where all graphics look more distinct. But its harder to pull off so... I've made characters that should point you to a place where you should go/what you should do next. Its not crystal clear though.
If I would've shown you the map, You would realize that the maps are actually 2-4 circles and that's it;) The design is quite simple, though for sure its a bit confusing when watching from inside.
It could be done better for sure of course. Thanks for playing!
Thanks. Ah sorry that camera was dizzying. My guess is that with apple hardware the mouse just has a lot of DPI and its very fast, and my crappy 5$ mouse is just slower. Note taken: implement settings in the future, allow mouse speed to be adjusted.
Its a shame that another person got stuck -.- F11 should work, but browsers usually think its some command button (dev console or what not). Didn't check that eh. But it should work in following way, at least in chrome: F4 to quit fullscreen, F11 respawn, F4 to go back to fullscreen.
Thanks for playing!
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