Dino Dash - Race from extinction! Well... Maybe just your friends...

rakthalekk 2023-10-07 01:55

Not bad for your first game! Unfortunately I didn't have anyone to play with at the time, but it was fun to mess around with and it's mechanically solid. I think it might be more interesting if the rolls were random rather than picking the number each time, as right now there's not much of a reason to not spam 6 until you get to the end.

ffffchai 2023-10-10 04:23

It feels like everything is random, but rolling the dice is addictive. The game is very precise and cute, might make a good tabletop game prototype, looking forward to simpler interactions. anyways, good job!

rongon 2023-10-11 20:49

It was super small window on my MacOS, so it was hard to see, but basically it's a game of Ludo.

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Good job on finishing up the game for the event, but where is the "Limited space" theme here? Regarding interface, it's weird to select the player piece from a dropdown menu, I would expect after rolling, I can click on the piece on the board to move it. And I expect the game to handle turns, after moving, the turn should automatically move to the next player, it's weird to have to change the player manually from dropdown. Next time focus on the theme and make it more of a game, than board game simulator.

eeperdeheap 2023-10-13 17:56

Nice board game. It is cumbersome to be doing all the moves yourself and it is hard to notice the rules being enforced - apart from the dino just not moving. Maybe add an indicator about the rule. To manage turns you could probably add a component to the scene which holds the current player (color) and switches to the next after you have moved a dino. Replace the dropdown (color) with that component. Add the name of the current player to some UI element.

yoss-iii 2023-10-15 06:15

interesting little demo. If the issue is just the size, you could try messing around with a Camera Node (although zooming too far might cause issues on a low-resolution image). Not an expert at Godot by any means, but the general recommended organization is usually to try to keep scenes as self-contained as possible--if you haven't already, look up the concept of "call down, signal up." So, for example, maybe you have one big Scene where the board, the pieces, the dice, etc. are all children of a root parent node with a script attached to it. When a red piece finishes moving, it sends a Signal up to root node of the Scene, which lets that root node know to call down to the green piece and says it can move now. It gets more complicated than that, and you definitely don't have to follow the general recommendations exactly, but that's probably where I'd start.

dan-str 2023-10-17 20:22

This game is truly captivating. I liked it a lot, and the idea is fantastic. Stick to your current trajectory, and you'll undoubtedly become a professional

bliny-lynx 2023-10-20 08:27

Congrats on completing your game.

I didn't quite get the rules, you should probably write them down somewhere? I got the pieces to move by clicking random buttons.

Yoss has some good pointers for code organization.

> art can be made to look good at correct resolutions

If you're doing pixel art in godot, in your project settings set the default texture filtering mode to "nearest" to preserve the pixels at scaled sizes. In my entry for the jam, I set the strech mode to "canvas_items" and overrode the window size to be a multiple of the canvas size, this keeps the canvas at the same size instead of extending it to be wider as the window is resized. Screenshot 2023-10-20 111432.png

The dinos are cute.