Thanks! I'm hoping to keep on working on it post jam.

Thanks.   One of my motivations was to work out some problems I was having so I could move on to more complex games.

Thanks!  Yes, it is GLES2.  I had wanted to use Godot 4, but the GridMap node was giving me some very buggy behavior so I downgraded to Godot 3.5.1.

You're the second person to mention the camera being inverted.  I guess I don't play enough modern games.  A lot of the classic games use the inverted camera and that's more what I was referencing when I was building this.

Thanks.  I rigged the models in Blender using Rigify and the animation was done by hand using keyframes.   If you use Rigify, you can also reuse animations between models using Blender's Actions system.  The models and some of the animations were actually done a few weeks before the contest for some YouTube videos I was working on.  I was originally planning on creating new models and was using them as temporary stand ins, but ran out of time.

Spyro was one of my inspirations.  I've had several tries at making a roguelike in Godot.  I think this is my best attempt so far.

I just double checked a couple of games.  Spyro 2 and the Zelda games have a camera controller setup similar to what I'm using but I should probably add something to let users change it.  It comes down to perception - do you think you're moving the world around the camera or moving the camera around the world?  So different people like it different ways.

Thanks!  Getting the camera to work right is not easy.  I was thinking of it as if there was a person with a real camera following you around and trying to always keep the camera pointed at you.  Also lots of time booting up various Zelda games to see if I could figure out how they were doing it.

Thank you. :)  The map for level 2 was literally created with about 1 hour left in the jam.  I was trying to mimic PS1 era games with the controls, both to keep things simple and because I'm not good at playing theses sorts of games.

Yeah, I wanted to do that, but I ran out of time.  Hopefully in the next update.

Thanks!  One of my goals with  this jam was to try out Godot's GridMap node.  I think it turned out to be pretty useful.

Thanks.  3D is a lot of work, and yet compared to 2D work I think it's a bit easier (at least with my skill set). For 2D you have to draw every frame of every pose of animation you need and usually facing all four directions too.  With 3D, you just need to create your model once and then do each of the animations once.

I hope to make more update to this post jam!