| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Accessibility | #35 | 2.880 | 2.880 |
| Controls | #42 | 3.240 | 3.240 |
| Audio | #55 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Fun | #57 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Originality | #60 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Theme | #71 | 2.720 | 2.720 |
| Overall | #72 | 2.897 | 2.897 |
| Graphics | #117 | 2.040 | 2.040 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.5.1 Stable NixOS
Game Description
Vertical platform shooter. The goal is to get has high as you can!
How does your game tie into the theme?
Using a weapon to platform instead of killing.
Source(s)
https://github.com/DefectiveDev/vertical-weapon-platformer
Discord Username(s)
workingunion
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1
I definitely want to check this game out but I'm having trouble opening on my mac for some reason. Usually as a safeguard when you download software stuff on a mac you have to verify it's secure in the system settings (which I did). But even after doing that I wasn't able to get it running for some reason.
The first time I tried to export for macOS in Godot I had an issue where it wouldn't run and I ended up following this video and it worked perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0op02d8n8_k
It could just be me / my computer though - not sure?? Would be happy to try to test / troubleshoot for you if you don't have or know anyone else with a Mac!
I believe if it is like linux it may need to be given executable permissions try this guide. https://blog.verslu.is/maui/application-cant-be-opened-macos/
I believe if it is like linux it may need to be given executable permissions try this guide. https://blog.verslu.is/maui/application-cant-be-opened-macos/
Thanks! Sadly I was mostly focused on scope and let myself get side tracked instead of trying to do more for the game. However, going through everyone else's games gave me some insight into how far I might be able to go. I hope you enjoyed this game jam!
I strongly agree! Put this with someone else's suggestion of making the recoil stronger the closer you are to the enemy then this becomes a strong reason for the player to play with precision of spamming the button.
It was A LOT worse before hand. I was using raycasting before to make the bounce work but half the time the player was sliding down the wall! I started using the character controller's move and collide function and just setting the vector direction to bounce on collision! This was the result so I am happy :D
As far as escaping goes the calculation is based on the direction you hit the enemy from so you have to wait long enough for your position to move then you can shoot straight down again to gain back your height.
I will give it a try since neovim can interpret gdscript. However, I do really like using statically typed languages.
Yeah I was mentioning to another person who wish for an auto-shooting option that spamming was over powered. 😅
If I were to do it again I would of had move of a buffer for the window and enable it to scale better (the size of the enemies platform was fixed at the time of export).
Loved your potion factory game! Also glad to see you are able to fix the music looping issue on web builds. I was one of the people you talked to in the discord :)
Taylor, I agree it would be easy but it would be more accessible ideally I would find other ways to improve difficulty. One of the things I did was have enemies move at different rates. I had started working on making a combo/alert system that would speed up enemies to make it more difficult but I ran out of time.
Nope! I just did a impulse based on if a shape cast hit or not. It may have been more interesting to reduce the recoil if further away. I will probably try it out if I have some free time :)
We used FMOD for our game, so I’m not sure about how to achieve this in Godot native scripts, but from what I searched, there seems to be a EQ with 6 bands that might be helpful for what I said: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/audio/audio_effects.html#eq6-eq10-eq21
I will see about messing with FMOD in the future. I saw the eq in the audio bus effects settings for Godot! :)
Honestly, I have no idea. I am not even sure what this globalization thing is. This is the message that appear if you don’t set what I mentioned: Process terminated. Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system. Please install libicu (or icu-libs) using your package manager and try again. Alternatively you can set the configuration flag System.Globalization.Invariant to true if you want to run with no globalization support. Please see https://aka.ms/dotnet-missing-libicu for more information.. It’s probably a good idea to have it set on all Linux builds.
I went ahead and added your instructions to the installation instructions. Thanks for figuring it out!
Odd, I was able to run it using steam-run. I don't know what could be causing the issue sadly :(
It seems that owl wise figured it out. It is an issue to do with c# (godot mono specifically) expecting a native library to be downloaded by default for linux. If I use c# again I will make sure to configure the json. Next time it will work without the library.
Thanks for the tip! I will look into how to do that next time!
The funny thing about the submission time is I uploaded it 30 minutes prior. I thought that because I made the game from the submission page it automatically registered! So I spent the last 30 second figuring out it didn't and trying to submit as fast as possible 🤣
Sadly I did not spend much time on graphics. :( I really wanted to put my week of pixel art practice to use. However, I found out that I really didn't know the game engine as well as I did. I am proud that I was able to scope this game well enough to submit it!
I might end up programming in rust next time so at least I can build to web :)
Me personally I enjoy having the static typing of c# and being able to use a language outside the engine. Plus having access to the latest 3d features for godot is nice. I will probably switch to rust gdextension until the c# web build is ready. If I decide to work with a team at some point I will have to bite the bullet and use gdscript.
Plus I use neovim so setting up gdscript will be a pain :p
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