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Speedrunner 2

Complete the levels as fast as possible! 路 By eboatwright

Idea for a feature

A topic by Negreb created Dec 27, 2023 Views: 226 Replies: 34
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What if your time from every checkpoint was recorded and you had a "your best possible time"

Developer

That's an interesting idea, although the optimal path for most levels skips checkpoints so it might not be very useful hahaha

True. Now that you say it its actually useless lol

Ok, I have another idea.
1. The Hub becomes a level itself
2. A level editor. It may be just as big as a screen but it will be nice to train some jumps

Developer

I've thought about a level editor, but the code is already open source here: https://github.com/eboatwright/Speedrunner2

So if you just install the Godot game engine, (it's only like 300 MB) you can make and share your own levels :D 

But I think I'll come back and add a few more levels to this game, and I think T had requested ice physics a couple months ago, but I've had another idea for a speedrunning game that's slightly different than this, but it would be way more feature complete and I'd probably add a level editor to that one

Another question: do you play in the web version, or have you downloaded the client?

Web. Why does it matter?

Developer

Just wondering from a game dev perspective, it doesn't matter for gameplay

I downloaded Godot and loaded the project but cant seem to understand how to make a level (Probably cuz idk how Godot works)

How do you make levels. I cant seem to be able to edit them

Developer

This game is old, so I think you'll have to go back and download an old version of Godot, maybe the 3.5.3 LTS version on the front page?

And then here's an old YouTube tutorial for how to use it:

oof. too much work. it doesnt even matter at this point

Developer

lol ok

I got 3 new ideas :D (even though you probably wont add it anytime soon[or at all] cuz its too much work and the last update came today)

1. A way to unlock new levels - By having a low total time from all levels till now, you unlock a new set of levels

2. The Hub being a level itself

3. Having levels that need colectables to finish

Developer

Well I'm working on alot of projects at the same time right now, but I can add some of these ideas to a "to-do" list to come back to later


1. I've thought about this, but I like the idea of having all the levels open to everybody more than unlockable levels


2. What do you mean by this? The hub having checkpoints?


3. That's an interesting idea, I like that

2. Hub having both checkpoints and a goal and showing your time just like regular levels

Developer

Oh, well the hub is really just a way to get from level to level, so idk about that

Just a suggestion.

But with new levels at least checkpoints would be nice

Developer

Yeah, I think I might add checkpoints, it could get annoying to have to walk all the way up the hub level to get to a higher level

:D

New idea:

What if every level  had a door at a hard to reach place anf after reaching it youll get a hard version of that level (More spikes and shortcuts blocked) and the time would be displayed above the normal time (You wont even have to make new topics, you can just showcase the hard times in the same topic as the easy times)

Developer

Interesting...

Maybe a speedrun mode where a the timer start at the hub and end when you beat all levels

Developer

That'd be cool, runs would definitely be harder to beat

I just noticed the doors start closed in the first frame and then are open for the rest of the game

Developer

Yeah that's an old artifact from the code, I was originally gonna have all the levels except level 1 blocked off, then you have to go through them one by one, but I scrapped that in favor of letting players go wherever they want

Ok

Since the down key doesn't do anything (outside the hub) how about a ducking animation that reduces your sliding on ice?

Developer

Maybe, but then it would kinda destroy the purpose of making ice hard to control...

true

Would be cool if there was a level here LOL

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you should have not told me that and add it without telling anyone to see if someone would find it T^T

Developer (1 edit)

Oh ok i'll delete the comment LOL

also new charcters sounds cool

Would it be just cosmetic or actually have different movement style 馃

Developer

It would probably be just cosmetic, but I've had ideas to add more movement options like a hang-glider, or a propeller hat

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