Leaping Leprechaun by Tod Semple

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made by Tod Semple for Ludum Dare 56 (EXTRA)

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Instructions

Use the arrow keys to move left and right. Press down to bounce off a charm. Collect coins to buy upgrades.

Avoid the sneaky fairies that increase your weight and slow you down.

Controls

Move: AD, arrow keys, or a game controller.

Dive: S, down arrow key, or button-A.

Select: space bar or button-A

Gameplay

This game is a cross between Knightmare Tower and Vampire Survivors in a breakfast theme.

About the game

I worked on this game with my 2 kids (8 and 11). When I said the theme was "tiny creatures" my daughter instantly said "Leprechauns!". And of course my first thought after that was Lucky Charms. Yeah, well, there ya go.

I went all in on AI generation for this game. Most of the art was drawn by ChatGPT. The music was composed by Suno. Copilot wrote a surprising amount of code. I tried to get ChatGPT to design some of the game, but it's got nothing compared to the creativity of young children.

I used a custom game engine I’ve been tinkering with for the last few years. It’s C++ with emscripten for the web build.

I love the Extra format! It’s the only way I can make a game with everything in my life. I put in about the same amount of effort as a Jam game but spread over 2 weeks. For this LD, I put in about 20 hours.

Thanks for playing!

Ratings

Given 4🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

Nikkita
20. Oct 2024 · 07:44 UTC
good
Dining Philosopher
20. Oct 2024 · 08:39 UTC
Fun game, I love picking upgrades like this :D Got 4416 points. I didn´t pick charm, perhaps explain what it is in the description.

With the use of AI I'm not sure how generally frowned-upon participating in the graphics and sound categories is. I don´t know what the rules say about this, but then again in the Compo and Extra categories you're not expected to make everything yourself anyway.
smikevth
23. Oct 2024 · 17:47 UTC
That was a lot of fun. I got to 23684 and at that point it was basically a kill screen. There were so many fairies on the screen it was impossible to avoid them, I got so fat (1400)! It could go on longer or maybe be broken up into levels where you have to clear increasingly higher heights if you wanted to expand on it, but ending in total chaos like it does is fun too.
Nice job!
jk5000
25. Oct 2024 · 19:31 UTC
A fun little game.