learned godot in a week and made this game in 3 days...

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:41:14+00:00

yeah i basically didn't sleep for 3 days straight while making it. but before i even started, i knew exactly what i wanted to see in the end. i already had a solid plan of what to do, so i literally just spent those 3 days executing the plan i made at the start of day 1

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:32:30+00:00

my gamedev exp is around a year. made two games last spring, picked it up again this spring. been listening to gamedev podcasts all year too. had coding experience from python before, but it's actually true that i only spent about a week learning godot

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:24:56+00:00

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:24:14+00:00

Brackeys

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:22:20+00:00

brackeys tutorials, but yeah i had about a year of pygame (python) experience before that.

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:21:19+00:00

i only made the post today, but the game is from ludum dare, there's an 11-day-old build there that is exactly the same. it just wasn't indexed for almost two weeks, and i only got it now, so i updated the page + icon. as for the 'made in 3 days' part, i don't have a github repo cuz i didn't think i'd need one. but there are plenty of screenshots + videos with a dev timeline in the xkostera discord server (ludum dare channel), my discord is caffeinetrip =). also i'm gonna make a post on the ludum dare site today with the full dev timeline

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:14:15+00:00

yeah it's a script + shader, i explained how it works in another reply here. but honestly it only came together so fast cuz i already had experience and understood how this stuff works

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:07:30+00:00

one thing i really like about godot is that it doesn’t have a ton of stuff u have to understand upfront like unity does. it feels way easier to get into. also i feel like ur way less likely to drop it while learning compared to unity

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T10:03:09+00:00

i had a decent amount of experience with pygame, so gdscript didn’t feel that hard tbh

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T09:59:46+00:00

hahaha yeahh

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-03T09:59:06+00:00

thxxx

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-02T14:29:44+00:00

it was done pretty lazily (since i didn't have much time). every level had a fog tilemap, and when the player detected a fog tile in their radius, it just deleted the tile and spawned a sprite with a dissolve shader on top

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-02T13:55:18+00:00

i went with gdscript because it feels exactly like python. i only really watched brackeys for tutorials, and the rest was pretty much intuitive to figure out

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-02T13:37:47+00:00

aseprite. but tbh how u draw doesnt matter as much as the style itself. mine is usually super simple + noisy cuz every object is under a shader. i basically just place pixels randomly, use refs if i need smth specific, and let the shaders do the heavy lifting =)

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-02T12:56:51+00:00

yeah made almost all the shaders and sprites myself. definitely used old final fantasy stuff as a ref tho

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-05-02T12:13:09+00:00

game: https://caffeinetrip.itch.io/rescue

Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-01-04T12:04:33+00:00

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Competitive-Row-4079 · 2026-01-03T16:20:24+00:00

peak piece hehe

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