[GGJ2023] DINOROOT

I finally made it in time for a Game Jam haha.

This is my entry for the Global Game Jam 2023

However I should come clean about a few details. I did not technically start from scratch.

Back in December,  I started work on a smaller Game Jam with the theme of dinosaurs. I started doing some sprite work for that right away but had to scrap the project because of... REASONS.

So, when the GGJ got announced a few days ago, I decided to take whatever I had from that scrapped dinosaur game, and make something from it, while somehow shoehorning in the theme of roots somewhere along the way.

The result, after many compromises and changes of heart, is this: DINOROOT!

As it stands now, it's just a very simple and VERY short platformer. I originally had the idea of including puzzle elements. Something along the lines of burning roots to carve your way though this cave that's under a giant tree.

I ended up scrapping that burning roots idea because of time, and because I ended up wasting a lot of time just playing with shaders and particles and stuff.

In all seriousness, most of my time was dedicated to making the dino feel good to control. I spend basically an entire day fine tuning that thing lol. It was worth it I think, it controls pretty smoothly.

Still, I wish I had time to do more. Or at the very least do cutscenes that don't like like they were drawn by a 5 year old. You can probably tell just by looking at them that at that point, I was just trying to get it over with lmao.

At any rate, I'm pretty happy with this. I ended up putting it together is something like 20-30 hours total.

...I think, who's keeping time lmao

Anyways, enjoy, my sh*tty, desperately-trying-to-tie-in-with-the-theme-of-the-jam, sorry excuse for a poem at the end credits. idk, it was 6 am when I wrote it.

Controls:

WASD

Credits: 

Assets:

• https://szadiart.itch.io/pixel-dark-forest
• https://szadiart.itch.io/pixel-fantasy-caves
• https://anokolisa.itch.io/high-forest-assets-pack

Shader:

• https://godotshaders.com/shader/crt-shader/

SFX:

• https://kronbits.itch.io/freesfx

Everything else:

• Me

Thanks for playing.

Made with Godot Engine, btw