WarioHack
By
@Dasher2801
- 6 Devlogs
- 5 Total hours
A game full of short minigames! (Make a WarioWare-Style Game Mission)
Ship #1
WarioHack is an arcade-style indie game developed within the Godot Engine for the Hack Club Stardance Challenge, blending tight platforming controls with high-stakes time management. Set against a cosmic background featuring a shifting starry galaxy, the experience challenges players to navigate platform layouts and zero-gravity environments to collect specific items before a strict countdown expires. The game operates on a structured progression loop where successful collection tasks push players forward through ascending difficulty levels, while failing to meet objectives or running out of time subtracts from a limited pool of lives and redirects the flow back through intermission screens.
Under the hood, the project is powered by a robust GDScript architecture designed to avoid common runtime pitfalls like null-instance crashes and invalid node references. Rather than relying on fragile external node scripts, the core loop utilizes a self-contained runtime structure within the primary minigame script. Dynamic checks using safe node retrieval ensure that user interface elements, such as the active countdown display, update seamlessly every second without throwing errors during rapid scene transitions. Global state management tracks overall progress across multiple sessions, ensuring that cumulative minigame completions correctly dictate whether the player advances toward final completion screens or repeats the challenge cycle. This combination of responsive arcade mechanics and clean backend scripting results in a polished project that highlights both creative game design and precise technical execution.
16m logged
I added a fourth minigame, where you have to click at a tomato 10 times in 4 seconds
1h 20m logged
For the third mini-game, I developed a simple Flappy Bird-style game. You play as the moon with legs again, and you have to dodge pickles of varying lengths.
20m logged
I designed a winning and a losing screen, both with a ‘play again’-button, wich brings you back in the main menu.
1h 1m 4s logged
I added a second game where you have to click on all three tomatoes within four seconds; however, I ran into a problem where only one tomato was visible, so I used AI to figure out why. The solution turned out to be quite simple: the animation file had placed all three tomatoes in the exact same spot, as that was the command defined in the file.
1h 30m 30s logged
I built a platformer game where you play as a moon and have to collect three tomatoes. If you don’t manage to do it within 10 seconds, you lose one of your three lives.
38m 21s logged
After downloading Godot and setting everything up, I started programming my WarioWare-style minigames. To do this, I first created a start screen with “Start Game,” “Settings,” and “Quit” options; pressing “Quit” closes the game. Selecting “Start Game” takes you to the minigame hub, where you can see your five hearts, the current level, and a timer counting down from five.
Next up is the first minigame.
