Wowza! This is really pretty, especially that opening above-round scene. I really loved the lighting.
Great work!
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the last afterhour - party under the cemetery's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Accessibility | #3 | 3.656 | 3.656 |
| Theme | #12 | 4.063 | 4.063 |
| Audio | #22 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.384 | 3.384 |
| Controls | #28 | 3.219 | 3.219 |
| Graphics | #32 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Originality | #38 | 3.281 | 3.281 |
| Fun | #52 | 2.594 | 2.594 |
Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
3.4.4
Wildcards Used
n/a
Game Description
something weird is going on under the cemetery, and you're about to go down there and find out!
How does your game tie into the theme?
the game is situated underground, under the graveyard where you've lived and worked for a long time!
Source(s)
n/a
Discord Username
philou#2555
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
three
Comments
1 year ago(+1)
aw, thank you! making a no-battle game was on my objectives list from the start, and i'm glad you appreciated that!
oh and while you're here, i'll add that i'd been meaning to start using git, and found your little series on that from 2020, and it's super helpful! so, thanks for that, too! :)
thanks for playing, and for your feedback! i definitely should've blocked the stairs on level 3 to make it clearer to the player that this was not the way towards the end of the game. (there's one other npc on level 3 that allows to get to the party room, but hiding it at the end of some far-off corridor definitely wasn't my best game-making decision, haha!)
1 year ago(+1)
thanks for the comment! :)
for the proc-gen, i watched some youtube tutorials that came up when searching for "godot procedural generation". the "walker" approach felt interesting for what i had in mind, and then i ended up sort of creating my own, wonky, janky thing.
clearly not the most efficient way, but what i did: each room is an instance of its own, room template scene (which has its own tilemap, with floor and walls and doors (hidden by default). i then have a map scene, with its own tilemap, but this one is never displayed, it just serves to keep track of where rooms are. the code then generates "room 0", looks for the four potential movement directions to see if the path is open, choses one randomly, adds a room there, and connects the two rooms together. you then repeat the same process from that new room, and so on. i had a path_length variable that allowed to control how many rooms i wanted per level, in total, and then, some rooms could become an "end of corridor" room, and it restarted from the first "room 0", to have separate branches.
or something along those lines... haha.
1 year ago(+1)
aww, D4yz! that feedback means a lot, thank you so much! i'll definitely play around with that movement adjustment idea, it actually makes a lot of sense! <3
...also, fyi: i ran out of time, but i initially meant to have alternate endings, depending on your game-ending decision. so, instead, have this "party-pooper ending achievement". :)
1 year ago(+1)
hah, yeah! i ended up spending way too long figuring out how to make the procedural generation do what i wanted, but then i ran out of time to make the actual levels a tad easier to navigate. oops! glad you still had some fun with it! :)
1 year ago(+1)
the room number wasn't supposed to be on screen, it should be fixed now, so thanks for that! :P
and without spoiling too much: on the second level, there is definitely another creature that you should interact with that allows to continue!
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