Yes, ''magazine UI'' was in my polish list but i barely made the deadline on this one haha. I got too distracted trying to make a reusable resource system for the balls and pegs so I could eventually implement some sort of relic/artifact system like STS, Pegglin and other roguelikes.
It's the first jam that I don't just run for the MVP so maybe i could continue the game later without wanting to go back in time and strangling myself for the code quality and I paid for that in features haha.
heyo thanks for the thorough test and review! to be completely honest, I did not judge the zoom level correctly and had the fullscreen/zoom thing as one of the last things to implement, but i couldn't get to it due to time haha
i literally submitted my final build fixing a visual bug with the bee that was going in backwards with 17 seconds on the clock, i feel you hahaha. My clock gave me a warning it thought i was having a heart attack 😂😂😂😂
ty! the original plan had 6 stats (adding special/physical def and mana) but i tried gamecrafting how that would look like in terms of balance and it was ridiculously out of scope for a single dev in a week hahaha
cute artstyle i love it! i find it a bit confusing not to have different colored ''walls'' for each player, without being careful you lose track whose turn it is
surprisingly tight platforming controls for a jam game! can't fault for missing sound, as i didn't get to that on my entry either and this is waaaay more polished hahaha
damm, this was super fun! It does feel like some starting boards screw you from the get-go, but overall pretty good. does not feel like a 2 week jam game at all, the polish is very nice.
Original plan was to make it more of a shop than a combat game. Customers would come in and request a critter with a specific stat spread (changed to a letter based system for more leeway than hard numbers) within X days, so the balance of the game would be keeping some critters vs using them for breeding which would disable collection for X days or selling them for gold to buy more.
OH yes for sure, I have notes for every major commit for my jam games but atm i'm binging math and shader stuff so I can push out a more polished game for Brackey's jam that is coming up :)
Writing is super helpful to me, so it's something i need to do (eventually haha)
I have no idea where the softlocking came from and will probably have to revert to the exact commit the jam release came out of, it was introduced along the other bugs in the build, all because i wanted to add sound so imagine the spaghetti at that point.
im binging tutorials now so i can do better on the next jam, signed up for the Brackey's jam :)
it's the jam curse :( almost all bugs were introduced on the last build i uploaded, which added sounds of all things hahaha.
I'm super new to godot and i couldn't reserve time to learn how to make the UI elements for the powerups ''drag and droppable'' and have pop-ups for the info that would explain how to make them work 🫠🫠this was more of a learning thing into procedurally generating geometry. Don't ask me if i can get past 50 on-screen critters with my current code hahaha🫠🫠🫠
Yeah, lag was going to be an issue on a range of devices I believe. As I'm taking the jams as learning opportunities, this was ''procedurally created geometry'' without using multimesh instances, so it's going to hit CPUs HARD. There are actually no sprites on screen besides the background tilesets. Every critter is 100% calculated and drawn, even the eyes. Every frame. Now I know how to do othat tho, so next jam, can be multimesh/meshinstance node learning :)
Sadly it seems the last build I uploaded broke the moddule that loads critters from the breeding screen back into the game 😭😭😭😭 They are still saved in your browser tho, if you reload the page, they should spawn right in... just not between days 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 I'll update once the jam ends and it lets me upload builds again :)
Sadly it seems the last build I uploaded broke the moddule that loads critters from the breeding screen back into the game 😭😭😭😭 They are still saved in your browser tho, if you reload the page, they should spawn right in... just not between days 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
thanks a lot for the feedback! Ive been learning godot for around a month, glad to see someone else enjoying the work. Time got me but i had tons of stuff planned for this, im using most of the mechanics for a bigger pet based game i have planned down the line, ATM im doing jams to constrain dev time :)
level clear portal should spawn at last enemy's death location but this is pretty enjoyable. mechanics are tight and it's fun trying to get enemies to self delete with their own dynamite if you are too close haha
level clear portal should spawn at last enemy's death location but this is pretty enjoyable. mechanics are tight and it's fun trying to get enemies to self delete with their own dynamite if you are too close haha
