The original game where I took the inspiration is made to be hard to be good at it, so I take that as an accomplishment.
I’ve tried with faster boats but was weird with the slow jump, an idea was to add a lot more planes and maybe some missiles to avoid, a powerup to fly a bit a la godzilla vs hedora and other silly stuff.
Well, it should’ve been worse control-wise, less air control, more slippery, like in Adventure Island 3 but the few attempts to do it that way ended being too annoying/frustrating.
Yeah, I didn’t have time to work on balance so left it to a point where you can at least reach 20 seconds.
And the idea was also to have a more busy sky, I’ll see if I can add more generators in an update before the deadline.
Godot does have a visual scripting system, node based like unreal BP, but can be a bit rough to learn in the short time of a jam (some people have learned visual scripting quickly, but not that fast) so GDScript may be easier.
If you used Construct also you may be facing several challenges like a different way of structuring games, written code, and according to your question, a third dimension too. It is always advised to try to tackle one thing at a time so try first, like the jam theme says, something simple.
Later the migration from 2D to 3D in Godot is simple in terms of logic and basic structures, is just complex in the same way 3D is complicated in general.
Back to programming.
Sadly, and despite that GDScript is a nice and simple starting language for learning programming, there are not many resources to start learning from zero (yet), people is usually directed to sites like https://www.learnpython.org/ which cover the programming basics with a language similar to gdscript, then the official documentation and try to experiment.
That said, here are some video tutorials focused on programming made by godot contributors and content creators:
In the link that Winston put are tutorials about custom drawing, how canvas layers work and other useful stuff too.
You can also use Line2D nodes which can make fancy lines on top of Polygon2D nodes (using the same set of points), there are MeshInstance2D nodes too but are a bit hard to use.
And Godot importer can rasterize SVG files (in editor, not at runtime) if you want to just use svg assets.
To not waste much time, if you can check the requirements for mobile exports, get and configure all the tools (export templates, sdks).
On Android you can do updates of scenes and scripts with the game running on the device and see the modifications instantly (or crash the game :D ) which can help to test changes quickly on the target platform (I have no idea about iOS).
If you need motivation for something simple, a great resource (even for serious projects) are old game manuals, some of these look like design documents.
The official documentation has a section called tutorials that also show how to do specific things, from simple logic like how to use a physics body to more complex like networking.
I'm not sure if there is a collection of snippets but almost everything is "plug and play", you can take the character scene and script files from a demo project and use it on your own project without changes in most cases.
Weird but interesting game, may need some work on the movement mechanics and give more meaning to the stage, decide if goes for pure action or more stragic and agressive enemies.
Nice visuals and atmosphere, it needs better feedback on the movement (like a trail) and most interactive items did not said anything (a default WIP message can help while developing, to not get lost in the game feature hail :P).
It was hard to kill the ants and gave no penalties at all for keeping them alive, and found easier to just level the reactor emperature attacking it, may need some motivation to kill ants and to resist (a time based score, probably).
Is a amd A10 with R5 graphics, tried running on a desktop too but takes both monitors as the screen wide and the game is placed half on each monitor, I guess there is something weird on the fullscreen part.
Cute game, found the wife but was almost dead so I guess it did not had a happy ending ^^;
You can add some trail to the turtle to see the movement, also maybe some light on the fire to see the area of influence and maybe a dirt patch under it.
Good for being a first game, try to add some information about the current state of freezing because there is nothing to tell how frozen you are and how much time you gain from picking fire.
A summer mode, avoiding the fire could be nice too :)
Nice management of the change of environment, just be careful when things are not reset on death, that can add interesting mechanics but can easily cause some softlocks too.
