{"id":595,"date":"2016-09-02T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T05:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/?p=595"},"modified":"2017-02-16T01:27:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T07:27:32","slug":"floppis-relic-run-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/2016\/09\/02\/floppis-relic-run-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Floppi’s Relic Run: Tools and short Post-Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

A little while ago, I entered the 36th Ludum Dare game jam, and ended up creating my first ever game with the Godot Engine: Floppi’s Relic Run<\/a>. Check the LD link there for the download. This post is a bit of a post-mortem on the jam project, but also to spotlight the tools that made this remotely possible.<\/p>\n

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To quote, well, myself:<\/p>\n

Synopsis: You’re flung into some alternate space\/time plane presumably far in the future, and an entity there says that they can send you home after clearing a certain number of relic gates. They can only be opened by collecting ancient relics. (Stone wheels, vaccuum tubes, and arrow heads were all I managed to add in time.) The world itself is not dangerous, despite my intentions to add more obstacles, but there’s a catch. Your time in each sector is limited because you’ve kind of been turned into a floppy diskette and are operating on borrowed power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The game play mechanics are sparse in large part due to the fact I learned how to use Godot during<\/em> the jam. Yeah, yeah, I know. Don’t do that. Lesson learned, the hard way. Like all the lessons I learn. Another piece of it is that I spent a long time on art and audio assets. I wanted the atmosphere to be polished. As far as that goes, I’m pleased with how that went.<\/p>\n

I cannot compose music or engineer sounds, and I was in the compo. I couldn’t use premade assets and only had 48 hours to produce a game. As such, I ended up using generators. I used Bfxr<\/a> for the sound effects, which is great when you need simple sound effects and you needed them yesterday. The music track, “Wandering Bitfield,” was composed with cgMusic<\/a> and synthFont<\/a> using the GMR Basico v1.1<\/a> sound font.<\/p>\n

Wandering Bitfield:<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/rrbits\/wandering_bitfield.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

[Original Ogg Download]<\/a><\/p>\n

It was originally a dance composition, but I tweaked instrumentation and tempo until I had something I felt was good enough to use. I really like GMR. Based on what I could glean from the auto-translation, GMR Basico 1.1 is donationware and I, since it helped me so much, felt compelled to contribute. I intend to use it for later stand-alone music projects.<\/p>\n

The art was largely created in GIMP<\/a> and Krita<\/a>. Whichever I used was largely dependent on how technical I was being. For instance, if I wanted exact straight lines at exact sizes I’d use GIMP, but for freehand drawing, I used Krita. In fact, Floppi, the the main character, was drawn entirely in Krita with different layers for each part of the sprite so they could be animated separately.<\/p>\n

Now I’d like to write a bit about Godot itself, but I’ll leave that for another post. There’s a lot to write of my first project with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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