Bouldering Bounce

This robot was built to scale a mountain. Make it to the top!

Solo project developed during the GMTK Game Jam 2024 given theme "Built to Scale".

Hint: Hold down jump button to clear large boulders

Assets Used:

Kenney - Toon Characters 1	Robot character textures
Kenney - Shape Characters	Boulder hazard texture
Kenney - Pattern Pack	Pattern textures
Kenney - Background Elements Redux	Cloud textures
Kenney - Emotes Pack	Heart emote texture
Kenney - Input Prompts	UI textures for input
Kenney - Fonts	Fonts
Kenney - Medals	Medal texture
Kenney - Music Jingles Kenney - UI Audio Kenney - Impact Sounds	All sound effects
Abstraction - Three Red Hearts Album	Two music tracks: 1. Puzzle Pieces 2. Candy
Queble - Palette Limiter Shader	Overlay shader to limit color palette
Kerrie Lake - Resurrect 64 Palette	Color palette

Tools Used:

• Godot 4.3  (GDScript)
• GIMP 2.10

How Was This Made?

Simple smoke and mirrors. The player is running on a flat, static body that never actually moves. The camera's rotation and position does all the work to create the illusion of climbing uphill.

Then, I use a simple curve resource to drive this camera's rotation and position! I also use this curve to adjust the rate at which hazards spawn, their speed, and to procedurally generate the HUD element that tracks the player's climb and slope steepness.

That's pretty much the gist of it.  Thanks for playing!