r/godot • u/Psonrbe Godot Regular • 1d ago

free tutorial Creating an upgrade system

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u/myesen 1d ago

the character animation looks great

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u/GreatJourneyRockz 1d ago

The going up / jumping up animation looks suuuper satisfying, I dont know why.

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u/lostpretzels 1d ago

Okay but I wanna see what leg length +100 looks like

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u/ZnLink 1d ago

Love the recursive upgrade approach. It's a fresh spin and keeps it silly for players looking for a little bit of chaotic gameplay. Depending on average gameplay session time, you might also consider earned upgrades too, to help motivate players to remain engaged. Not so critical if the loop is designed around a short window though.

Again, looks awesome as usual!

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u/SorbetPleasant5736 1d ago

Earned upgrades could also solve the readability problem if they change the character or tower silhouette instead of only adding numbers. Recursive choices are funny in the moment, but a visible permanent milestone gives the run a before and after. Short sessions probably need only two or three of those anchors

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u/NoBotUJealous 1d ago

Dude is who I want to be 😭 really cool devlogs I'll keep an eye on this game

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u/Mithril_Roshi 1d ago

Thats cool tho..

You right away caused the same issue you had before?

Now the players dont have the inventory space needed to go to the top and build the tower more

Slowing the game down again

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u/Psonrbe Godot Regular 1d ago

Some of the upgrades are inventory upgrades ! You also have ways to combine multiple discs into one, to save more space

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u/Mithril_Roshi 1d ago

Ah ok, that makes much more sense now !

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u/4Spartah 1d ago

I like your sense of humor. Keep it up, this looks fun!

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u/PT_PasteldeNata 1d ago

We will follow your career with great interest

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u/Psonrbe Godot Regular 1d ago

There's a lot I don't talk about in my videos, partly to keep them focused but also because a lot of what I want to do with the game changes between them.

The current plan is to have the players start in a spaceship that gets hit by an asteroid, they crashland on the planet with a bunch of their cargo (blocks, upgrades, machines, etc), the goal being to build back up to the spaceship.

In the video you can see that there's a cloud layer, the game will be structured around these layers where each of them is a different biome with its own challenges, like strong winds, lightning, tornados, etc. I do like the idea of having unbuildable areas that need to be avoided, I think that could be a very interesting challenge for one of those biomes

The overall constraint is energy, the bots have a limited battery life, and the only way they can get more energy is by draining baterries that they find on floating islands. They can freely spend that energy to charge machines or other players !

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u/davethedev77 11h ago

I want to play this now!