Momma Duck

Collect your ducklings and lead them to safety!

This is a point-and-click platformer!

This game was created in 48 hours as a submission for the GMTK 2021 game jam. All design, code, images, sound effects, and music were created by Levi.

The theme: "Joined together"

You are a momma duck. Your precious ducklings follow closely behind you as you lead them to a safe pond.

What exactly existed before the start of the jam?

If you think this looks polished and like way too much for a single person to have done in just two days, you're right! But most of the really impressive stuff is from a couple open-source Godot Asset Library packages: Scaffolder and Surfacer.

• The Scaffolder library:
  • This mostly adds the GUI and screen-layout you see before actually starting a level.
• The Surfacer library:
  • This mostly adds pathfinding.
    • Parsing tile maps into platform graphs of navigable surfaces.
    • Calculating paths through the graph and executing movement through these paths.
    • Annotating stuff relating to these paths.

Software used

• Godot: Game engine.
• Aseprite: Pixel-art image editor.
• Bfxr: Sound effects editor.
• DefleMask: Chiptune music tracker.
• Scaffolder: A framework from the Godot Asset Library that provides some general app infrastructure (like GUI layout and screen navigation).
• Surfacer: A framework from the Godot Asset Library that provides procedural path-finding across 2D platforms.

Source code on GitHub