Low-res p&c framework

stillinthe90s

About Been trying to make a old school adventure game framework in godot. Unfortulately, my programming/scripting skills are not good enough to make a proper template-like framework, and it will probably perform poorly in higher res (above 320x200-ish). However, I managed to get a small tech demo working, including most of the simple features I was aiming for. (It was based on an existing game made with the Adventure Game Studio engine) <img alt="" src="http://i.imgur.com/V6mMjXd.gif" title="Image: http://i.imgur.com/V6mMjXd.gif" height="400" width="640"> This will hopefully be solid enough to build something more interesting on. If anyone is interested in trying it out, HERE is the compiled project.

toger5

Cool!very atmospheric sourroundings. I like the blue yellow colored style. (I didn't test it so I cant say much more than that for now ;) )Are you going to publish it for smartphones. Because the UI at the bottom looks like that?  Would be cool

Megalomaniak

I'm getting a 'the thing' movie vibe from the screenshot/gif. And I think that's a good thing. :)

stillinthe90s

Thanks guys! Unfortunately this is only a tech demo so far. I'm not planning on porting the game in the image, atm. It only works as test assets for the demo. But if you feel like checking out the actual game, you can find it on itch.io, indiedb or gamejolt. It's called "Camp 1".This thing, here, was just put together to show the UI,walk/interaction system and save system. The aim is primarily desktop (win & OSx). Partially since the screen scaling method I'm using probably will have to be reworked for phones, and partially because of the difficulties with making touch screen p&c games.

deadsuperhero

This is honestly amazing. I used Adventure Game Studio for a long time and really enjoyed it, but unfortunately their editor is Windows-only for the long forseeable future. I've been super curious about creating a 2D p&c adventure game using Godot, so this is actually pretty inspiring for me!Also, I love the graphics. The gameplay itself vaguely reminds me of Beneath a Steel Sky.

stillinthe90s

@deadsuperhero:Thanks! I hope this is pushing you in the right direction.  :)AGS is really hard to beat when it comes to windows p&c games, especially low res. Getting the 320x200 graphics to look right was actually one of the big issues when implementing this. However, this problem is not exclusive to godot but the lack of documentation did certainly not help.Godot has a lot of useful features, such as the limited but easy to use pathfinding. The downside is that other, more p&c specific features that AGS provides (save system, inventory, character movement/animation, dialogs/speech, displaying/skipping cutscenes...) has to be constructed somehow. This also adds more flexibility, allowing things that are hard to do in AGS.[quote]The gameplay itself vaguely reminds me of Beneath a Steel Sky.[/quote]I think the interface is fairly close to the one they used in Beneath a Steel Sky. So, well spotted!