Brackeys GameJam

Barckeys Game Jam

2025.1

This will be KBVE entry to the Barckeys Game Jam!! For this entry, we will be using Godot with Rust

The main theme for the jam is Nothing Can Go Wrong.

The theme for the sister jam, hosted by Wild, is ERASE and the wild cards are:

• Mimic - Something is not what it seems.
• Style Shift - Visuals switch between two art styles.
• Shopaholic - include some kind of shopping mechanism.

Team

Official Team Sign In Sheet! Make a fork and then a pull request with your name and itch.

• h0lybyte
• SummationX
• Ron?
• Spaceman ?

FlowChart

Starting the basics of the flow chart, while writing out the rust code.

GameDocs

Game description You wake up in a miner spaceship, and everybody is gone. And worse of it all, sparks appear in different parts of the ship, concluding that the space ship already undergoes different hardship and you hope that nothing goes wrong.

UIUX

An analog spaceship UI could have scratched metal textures, dimly glowing buttons, slightly flickering holographic elements, and a worn-down control panel vibe. crt display? inspired by spaceteam

Gameplay Loop

• Mine asteroids and harvest scraps across the space to earn money.
• Fix and upgrade you ship.
• You will encounter various anomly that can be good or bad for you.

Assets

Space Shooter Redux

The spaceship asset pack that we will be using is from Kenny Space Shooter Redux, released as a CC0. There are two folders, _space-shooter-redux and space-shooter-redux, all of the assets from the pack are under the _space-shooter-redux and objects that we will use will be copied over to space-shooter-redux. Without having to dump a bunch of assets, I will try to use as many as needed and then going to delete the _space-shooter-redux folder.

auidioknobs

This asset will be used as UI panel that players will interact with in the world. auidioknobs, released as CC-BY-3.0. Credited to [email protected]

Layers

These are the layers that I am thinking we will be operating in:

2d_physics/layer_1="timespace"
2d_physics/layer_2="universe"
2d_physics/layer_3="galaxy"
2d_physics/layer_4="environment"
2d_physics/layer_5="planet"
2d_physics/layer_6="spaceship"
2d_physics/layer_7="npc"
2d_physics/layer_8="entity"
2d_physics/layer_9="projectile"

The first three layers, timespace, universe and galaxy will act as the background layers and the environment will be the first delta-time layer from the client-side point of view. Using the layer 1 through 3, we can create a parallax style simulation of space. The actual ship that the player controls will inherit the layer 6 aka spaceship. Finally we would split the npc and entity layer because we might want the npc to have additional abilities, like a star path finding.

1. Timespace

   • Tracks the time without a reference to frames.

2. Universe

   • Client-side background

3. Galaxy

   • Sub-background with the purpose of creating a parallax effect.

4. Environment

   • Tracks the delta-time, with a reference to the client’s frame.

5. Planet

   • This layer will include spacestations and presents an entity that has true collision.
   • Players will be to enter the planet, which can open up minigames or special UI screens.

6. Spaceship

   • The actual layermask for the player.

7. NPC

   • Layermask for pirates or friendly ships.

8. Entity

   • Layermask for objects that can be mined, cause damage and/or hold any interaction.

9. Projectile

   • Ammo shells and lasers, used to raycast hits as well.

Global Resources

The idea behind this singleton is to hold the spaceship stats and resources, including the gold, metal, stone, ect… I went ahead and designed it to be modular, so we can add any resource we want without having to go crazy trying to refactor it in.

Current List of Resources:

{
  "gold": 0,
  "stone": 0,
  "metal": 0,
  "gems": 0
}

1. Gold

   • This is the main currency of the game.

2. Stone

   • A resource for building objects within the ship.

3. Metal

   • A limited resource for building upgrades for the ship.

4. Gems

   • A rare resource for special upgrades.

Resource Examples

Global.earn_resource("gold", 100, "Mission Reward: Killing Fudster")
Global.earn_resource("stone", 50, "Mining Bonus")

For using the resources, it would be like this:

if Global.spend_resource("gold", 50, "Bought Shield Upgrade"):
    print("Purchase successful!")
else:
    print("Not enough gold!")

Then on the UI, we can listen to the signals and make changes.

func _ready():
    Global.connect("resource_changed", _on_resource_updated)
    Global.connect("resource_receipt", _on_resource_receipt)

func _on_resource_updated(resource_name, new_value):
    print(resource_name + " updated: " + str(new_value))

func _on_resource_receipt(resource_name, amount, new_value, invoice):
    print("Transaction: ", invoice, " Resource: ", resource_name, " Amount: ", amount, " New Balance: ", new_value)

Weapons

The first weapon that we will introduce is the laser for the spaceship, later on we will include a couple more guns, maybe a machine gun type weapon. Majority of the laser’s logic will be stored under /scripts/laser.gd and we will not implement any sort of pooling for it yet, that might be something that I will look into later on.