Yes, BOIS, THE GAME IS OUT!!!

GO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW!!!

It's currently a DEMO version, and there's still some quick fix and bugs todo, but hey! At least we uploaded it.

Let's now talk about it!

I was really super demotivated while working on this project. I had less time, even though I'm finishing a lot of stuff, there was yet a lot of things todo, and more things started getting added up. The game has yet more stuff unfinished, which I didn't added here, but we'll see; I'm thinking of releasing a new patch later (without speed-running, obviously, I'll be taking my sweet time this time.). So, since I said I was super motivated, the question arises, what the HECK was even my motivation to atleast finish it off?

Well, there's quite few.

Firstly, I was truly not satisfied with Godot's web export status. It was as if they never really noticed how important web builds are, especially for new game-devs (kind of like me), who would have their humble beginnings with a game jam. But then, a new progress report got released from Godot. I was checking my feeds when I got a notification from Godot Server saying 'Web exports in Godot is getting cooler 🥶' (something like that), and that caught my eye. I instantly read the entire report (GO READ IT, IT'S SUPER SICK AND I'VE NO WORDS FOR IT).

TL;DR:

• The new cool features for web will be arriving on Godot 4.3x
• The Godot splash screen would arrive in web exports, rather than just a loading bar (I seriously can't find the difference of Godot Loading bar and TurboWarp Scratch Loading bar XD)
• A lot on SharedArrayBuffer crap, but in short, uploading your game jam games in itch.io would be a piece of cake!!!
• Fixing audio issues with mobile and weak devices on Godot (just THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!!!)
• They're cooking even more!!!

Isn't this JUST enough for me to work on Godot and this game??? And trust me, when Godot 4.3 is in LTS, I'll be blindly port it to it!!! We need the best of the best brothers...

And that's first motivation. Second one, is probably a bit obvious, the Prize Money Extension.

It's also NOT only about the money, but a new 4th place has been added, and it's 200$. That was the original 1st place prize. And seeing the quality content people posted at the last minute, I think this decision, is top-tier LUCKY.

And I'm so happy that I not only I finished my FIRST EVER GODOT GAME, but also PUBLISH IT IN A JAM BEFORE DEADLINE.

Since it's posted with a bit delay, I couldn't get playtesters (which would probably me my homies and besties) to test it. So the only tester, or approver, in this entire process... was my mom. Yes, my mom, and also yes, she don't have a flippin' clue on who the heck that ginger haired kid .is. Try predicting my mom's face when I say that 'kid' blasted of an alien's ray-gun 🤣🤣

But this time I'll definitely get playtesters test it on the next patch.

Obviously, I couldn't visit the Pico Day meeting 😭 but I'll definitely come once I have money.

Pretty sure New Grounds Must Die & Heroes of Pico's School would ace this Pico Day. I don't know about mine. 🤞🤞

And there's one huge thing I forgot to mention. You see, to get more 'clicks' and make the game 'more cooler', I thought of adding the NG API, and add medals. And unfortunately, there's a small issue that changed this entire plan, which is also a great de-motivation for me. I won't be discussing it here. But I'll definitely post about it in a different post, so people could talk about it. This is NOT an issue of Newgrounds team, but my 'location'

Briefing it down, I can't normally open newgrounds in India, and have to use a VPN. Because newgrounds is 'blocked' in my area. And this same applies to newgrounds.io, where we get the API calls from the gateway there. And since the gateway is also blocked and can't access normally, I could not use ANY of the cool APIs newgrounds provides me, and other fellow Indian developers. If you're an Indian, or an Indian developer, share your experiences over the post I'll be making soon.

Overall, Newgrounds COOL, love you soooo much kiss kiss kiss.

So yeah, that's it.

Toodles,

StiK.