Devlog #7: Created a dino game

Goal:

• Jump over cacti
• Just don’t get hit by a cactus!
• Survive for 15 seconds

Features I’ve added:

• A jungle themed background
• 3d scrolling effect with Parallax background
• Cactus spawning and scrolling towards dino
• The dino remains still (all the player has to do is to jump over cactus as it scrolls near the dino)
• The game lasts for 15 seconds before moving onto the next.

NOTE: The game seems easy to make, but it’s really hard. Might be easier to play compared to “Flappy Bird”.

Devlog #6: Created Flappy bird game

Goal:

• Keep the bird in the air without hitting the pipes or the ground.
• Keep tapping on the screen to do so.
• Maintain this for 15 seconds straight to survive and move on to the next minigame.
• Else, you lose a life.

Features I’ve added:

• 3 flappy birds for seamless animation
• Blue sky, green grass, white cloud background
• Endless scrolling of ground
• Code to generate new pair of pipes with the same magnitude of distance between them. (Just their positions on the y-axis change)
• Flap SFX (Same as jump and bounce effects)

NOTE: I might change this minigame to the last one as I find this one to be of immense difficulty.

Devlog #5: Creating Pong game

After venturing on a lot of sidequests (HTM+CSS+JS), I’m back on Godot, baby! ngl, Godot is by far the simplest thing to code on. Plus, it’s really, really fun.

I’ve managed to create my 3rd minigame: Pong game

Goal:

• Keep bouncing the ball using your paddle for 30 seconds straight.
• If the ball leaves the screen, you lose a life.

Features I’ve added:

• Ball bouncing off the walls and paddle
• Ball bouncing SFX
• Easily movable paddle (controllable by mouse and touch screen)
• Black starry background

One thing I struggles with originally was that the paddle was bouncing off the screen once the ball hit it. So to solve that problem I switched my paddle from CharacterBody2D to StatucBody2D

NOTE: You may not be able to see the timer. But the game will end within 30 second, trust me! It’s just so as to introduce as element of suspense.

Devlog #4: Added a bunch of cool things!!!

Hello ppl!!! Greetings from Nebula! I know it’s been a long time since I posted a Devlog (I was a bit busy with life). But here I am, at last!

What I did:

• Added a settings page that allows you to toggle the volume and put the game on full screen mode
• Added music and SFX from Pixabay
• Optimized the platformer game so that it can be played on a mobile phone (my bestiee was complaining she couldn’t play the game, but now she can! :))
• Added a VirtualController for my platformer game.

So that’s it for now! I’m gonna ship this project!

Problems I encountered:

• “Exit” button on final screen not working once I uploaded it to itch.io
• Volume control slider not toggling on a mobile device

But for now, Imma ship the project as it is!
I worked really hard on it and I hope you guys enjoy playing the game as much as I did making it!
I’m open to feedback and suggestions on what more games to add!

Thanks so much for reading this and comment down below what you think!

P.S.S: This is not my final ship….I’ll do some changes, add more games and then do my 2nd ship (which’ll most likely be my final)

Devlog #3: Added winner and loser scenes

Winner’s Scene:

• I’ve added a “Congrats!” message.
• A hovering red Amongus
• An image of Earth rotating 360 degrees
• A “Play Again!” button, which takes you to a level select screen where you can then choose which level you wanna attempt again.

Loser’s Scene:

• I’ve added a “Better luck next time!” message.
• A dead red Amongus
• A “Try Again!” button, which takes you back to level #0
• A “Main Menu” button, which takes you back to the main title screen.

What I plan on doing next:

• Create a Readme file on Github

Devlog #2: Added Minigame #2

I managed to solve the problem I had mentioned on my previous devlog. Turns out I had actually forgotten to connect my Star_collected() signal onto the main GD script. How silly of me! ^^
So basically, that’s the reason why my system wasn’t recognizing that all the stars were collected and instead deducting lives.

Next I added Minigame#2 which is basically a Star Clicker game.
GOAL:- Click all 7 stars in 7 seconds.

Up next on my to-do list:

• Add winner and loser scenes
• Update my ReadMe file on Github

Devlog #1: Building my space-themed warioware game

Sooo about a week ago, I started building my game “Beyond the Nebula” on Godot.

Things I’ve added:

• Title Screen (With Start Game, Settings and Quit buttons)
• Levels Screen (Displays what level of minigame the player’s on and how many lives the player has….I’ve used Godot faces for lives:))
• Themed Timer (This is a 10 second timer that can be added onto any minigame I create)
• Player Sprite (a red Amongus character ;D)
• And last but not the least…..MINIGAME #1:-

Creating my first minigame has been somewhat of a challenge since I’m new to the Godot interface. But, I think I’m starting to get the hang of it :D.

The goal of the game is simple: collect all the 3 stars before the timer hits 0.

I enjoyed building this platformer game, but I bumped into a slight but major problem: despite my character collecting all the stars, the game doesn’t go back to the levels screen and load the next minigame. Instead, it decreases a life.

So this is a problem that I’ve got to find a solution to and I hope to do it soon!

Besides this, there was another issue I encountered while playtesting my game: My sprite going out of the screen’s viewport accidentally. I quickly solved this issue by altering my gd script code so that the sprite can’t leave the screen, even if the player tried to.

Further Plans:

• Solve the aforementioned problem of losing a life despite winning the game
• Add Minigame #2

I shall update regarding the same on my next Devlog…

This is SMD signing off!
Keep coding xo