Goofy Gourd Studios

Storm's Harvest is currently 50% off for #SteamScreamFest! Assist this gourd gathering ghoul in a retro style arcade game. Will you have a successful harvest, or not survive the night? 👻🎃🐦🐊

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Trying out the @godotengine.org plugin Dialogic 2 and honestly, it does like 85% of what I need it to out of the box, so I can't complain. 🐦

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Basic encounter areas, scene changing, and data persistence between battles 💀🐻🐊

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Also, had to try really hard to reign myself in so I have room to grow and have more "spice" for the more serious battles later on.

Version two of the main battle theme. I extended the length more and added another section, so hopefully it won't be as repetitive over a long period of time. 🎵

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And with that, we have a basic walk cycle (AND character swapping)
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Ok, thanks this helps a lot. I definitely want to nail down the best way to structure this now before it becomes an awful spaghetti code mess.

It would probably be fine to just keep, but my other worry is an organizational thing. I'm thinking if I limit my global data to just character stats/ inventory, plus maybe flags to keep track of story progress that's fine now, but I don't know how scalable that is if I have other needs later.

My current view is probably a hybrid approach of keeping character stats/ inventory etc in a constant global, but saving area specific info like opened chests into a resource and loading as necessary. Does this approach make sense?

Doing research on persistent data in @godotengine.org and it seems that the two camps are either keeping the information in a constantly present global, or saving and loading resource files as necessary, and I would love suggestions about the merits of both in an RPG.

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These are sheets of pixel art used to animate four characters walking around. 1: A skeleton dressed in purple. 2: An orange bear. 3: A red panda in a chef outfit. 4: A little yellow wizard boy.

Recently finished work on the initial drafts of walk cycles for our upcoming crew of heroes.
If all goes well, these should be our last major sprites created in Adobe Fireworks.
The end of an era indeed.
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And yes, that does mean ALL the art for our first two games was done in Fireworks instead of literally anything else.

Getting our artist to finally switch from Adobe Fireworks (a software discontinued in 2013) to the version of @aseprite.org I compiled for him is a big win for productivity.

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Gods work 🙏

We haven't used a lot of plugins yet, but @godotsteam.com has always been great.

WHY are his hat and tunic two very different greens?

If you're wanting to try the game out for yourself, our Android testing is open! Just join the Google group and it will let you download the test version. 📱🤖

groups.google.com/g/ducks-in-a...

Made a much needed QOL feature of adding in more options for the onscreen controls.🦆🎮

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Initial public testing for "Ducks in a Row" on Android is underway! If you want to join, follow the link for the Google Group, then sign up from there. Any testing support would be appreciated, and you get to play puzzles for free! 🦆📱

groups.google.com/g/ducks-in-a...

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If we did this right, joining this Google Group, then following the link in the first message should let you join the closed testing for the Android version of "Ducks in a Row". Any feedback will be appreciated and I will address any issues as soon as I can! 🦆📱

groups.google.com/g/ducks-in-a...

The good news is I guess there will be some kind of closed testing here soon for the mobile version of Ducks in a Row, so look out for that

I'm in Google Play Console hell.

Shoutout to all the wonderful people we met at the @stlgame.dev meetup the other day! We got to see some really cool projects! We hope we get a chance to go again and be more active. 🎮

Well, I've officially got color options for the background on mobile. Trying to keep it nice and simple 🦆🎨

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The most useful thing I've discovered is it was really useful to add the camera to a a control node (which I've been naming Lakitu for reasons) to automatically move the camera to adjust to the screen size because control nodes have WAY more built in to do that automatically.

The good news is that this process has become a masterclass for @godotengine.org control nodes, so at least I'm getting a lot of good transfer skills from this.

I thought turning an already existing game I have to a mobile version would be a piece of cake, turns out there's WAY more involved in ensuring that every aspect ratio, horizontal or vertical, scale appropriately AND have functional and comfortable touch controls. Getting there slowly but surely! 🦆📱

Working on something. Having to do a lot of work with control nodes so it resizes and scales properly😮‍💨Also, using buttons from the goat @kenney.nl which work great🦆

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I’ve been working on the map for our next planned project. I’m using the tile-set from FF1 as placeholders for the time being, to be replaced with my own sprites down the road. 🧙‍♂️🐻

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