Hey guys! This is my first Ludum Dare and game jame. I'm an enterprise software developer by day, and pretty new to gamedev. Looking forward to learning something along the way, and hopefully deliver something!

Here are some of the tools I'll be using.

|Category|Software| |--------|--------| |Engine|Godot| |Art|Asesprite| |Music|Sunvox|

I'm working on a ASCII based platformer. You spawn in the world by typing contextual terminal commands. When you use the correct commands, the output text forms the world / platforms around you.

I've started making them game with Godot. So far, I've gotten the initial player movement started, but it needs a lot of tweaking. Originally I created the platforms using tilemaps with font tileset, however, I found it really tedious to generate the level with it since everything was text based. So in order to speed up the workflow, I instead I extended Labels and added StaticBody's to them with autocomputed CollisionShapes to make it easier on myself. I suspect I may run into other issues with this, but so far it seems to be working.

Here's a screenshot of what I've done so far. Also added random PEW PEW projectiles because my brain got fried last night.

I'm so glad I actually finished a game in my first jam! It's a puzzle platformer with everything drawn in ASCII graphics. Check out my game here

This just made my week! Shout out to everybody who played my game and everybody else who competed in the jam. I'm so happy with how this went. These results far exceeded my expectations for my first jam. :smile: Definitely looking forward to next April!