Maaack's Game Template now in the Godot Asset Library

Maaack

The template handles main menu, options menu, credits, config files, and a bit more.
Thanks to the Godot Wild Jam community for its support!

https://github.com/Maaack/Godot-Game-Template
https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/2709
https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/2703

kuligs2

Which godot versions are compatible with this?

Maaack

kuligs2 The plugin is compatible with Godot 4.2.*.
I believe 4.0 and 4.1 are also both supported, but haven't tested with those in several months. There's a separate branch for Godot 3 that is not being maintained.

JusTiCe8

Hey ! I've had the same idea just starting this week, you stole MY idea, I'll sue you theft !!!

Just kidding 🙂 I'm not even living in the crazy lawsuits country if you know what I mean.

Did your Game's Template handle both 2D & 3D specific settings ?
It may be good to have a 2D only and 3D only and maybe a mixed type for export size optimization purpose, as engine can be fine-tuned to remove useless stuff.
Also, bunch of game (mostly from Bigfish I guess) have a profile management for players, it could be something to consider adding.

Maaack

JusTiCe8 The template is fairly agnostic to 2D vs 3D games. However, it is on my To Do list to add an example options menu with more settings, like camera shake and mouse sensitivity.

I'm not familiar with the profile management of Bigfish games, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.

JusTiCe8

I believe it would be better/easier/more efficient to have a split between 2D/3D games because there is a lot more options related to 3D (looks at demo samples for instance) and having already a settings page ready to use with the right setting well set according to chosen option will be helpful to people who doesn't want to do all of this by themselves, whatever cause of laziness or they've better things to do.

Maaack I'm not familiar with the profile management of Bigfish games, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.

You're welcome.

Basically, you have a player profile which store settings, progression, items, whatever there is in the game.
And you can create many profile (max may depend on UI more than anything else, especially if they are showed as cards with avatar and maybe also progress % to click on)
Other games I know with such feature : Magic Rampage (free) and Balatro available on Steam.

Maaack

I've since split the template into a suite of 4 plugins. You can find them on the Godot Asset Library.

https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset?user=Maaack
Feel free to leave feedback or report any issues.

Maaack

I've made significant updates to these addons in the last few weeks, in the aim of improving usability.

These now come with an installer that helps copy the example scenes into your project's directory and updates the relative paths.

Follow on GitHub: https://github.com/Maaack/Godot-Game-Template

Maaack

I updated the Music Controller in the Game and Menus Template (now v0.7.2), as well as the standalone plugin. It blends music between scenes, and now also works alongside animations within the originating scene.

I tried to keep it as simple as possible, but there were several edge cases to take into account. The blending is achieved by adding one audio bus at runtime. I hope others find it useful!

GitHub

buzzbuzz20xx

This is very cool !

Maaack

I made a quick intro video to the template features. Feedback is appreciated.

axolotl

Maaack this is great, the video format is perfect for showing what the template looks like.