mminer / ggj2022

Dungeon, With Friends! (Global Game Jam 2022)

Dungeon, With Friends!

Our Global Game Jam 2022 submission. A WebGL game built with Unity 2021.2.

By Brad Keys, Chris Bogie, and Matthew Miner.

Third Party Assets

Fonts: Kenney Fonts by Kenney
License: CC0 1.0 Universal

Sound effects: RPG Audio by Kenney
License: CC0 1.0 Universal

Tilemap: Micro Roguelike by Kenney
License: CC0 1.0 Universal

Map generation library: RogueSharp
License: MIT
DLL built from commit 1b9e746 (version 5.0.0-pre4)

ggj2022's Issues

Generate and display P1 & P2 glyphs

Each player will have an assigned glyph that can be seen when they access the exit door (glyph selection). Their assigned glyph is static, cannot be changed.

There is a second glyph slot that requires the other player's glyph from their exit screen.

Order doesn't matter.

Implement teleporters

Add door art to glyph entry screen

Spruce up the glyph entry screen using @cabogie art and only display the selector glyph.

Change title to "a door to bridge two worlds" and update the subtitle to be more helpful.

Limit visibility

One mechanic we can try is limiting one or both of the player's visibility.

Create glyph entry screen

Allow spawning pits along walls

At present pits only spawn in the middle of rooms. This ensures that players can always circumvent them, but it also means they can easily avoid them by only walking beside walls. Instead we could check if you can circumvent pits by doing a pathfinding check from the entrance to the exit.

Create shareable random seed generator

(Should be short, like Jackbox codes; 4 alphabet characters)

Create spike pit

For a first obstacle, create a spike pit that one player cannot see.

Implement map generation

This seems like it could be a gnarly task if we attempt to do it from scratch. My vote is to integrate an existing library. I found a few:

• libtcod: C++ library, but perhaps we could pull it in as a plugin
• RogueSharp: loosely based on libtcod; has field-of-view calculations which might be interesting for providing lighting (e.g. if the player holds a torch)
• GoRogue: also inspired by libtcod

Add death reason to results screen

Fix keyboard controls focusing UI buttons

The UI is also tied to our movement controls, so when you move, the UI buttons change focus.

Import art assets

Support WASD input

Because Bradley is a special boy.

Create Host / Join Game screen

Consider adding music

Should we have music? My instinct is no, but I can be swayed.

Create camera

Make monsters move

To start we could have a few simple patterns, e.g. they only move in a square.

Make dungeon wall connections look good

Time to get our bitmasking on. Or maybe Unity's tilemap makes this easier?

Write editor script to regenerate dungeon

It'll speed up map testing if we're able to quickly tweak parameters and see the result immediately, or type in different game codes while playing the game to see what map it corresponds to.

Make monster movement predictable

At present monsters move in a random pattern. It's unnerving. The player should understand where they're going to move next.

Create player controller

Grid-based movement should be sufficient (at least for now).

Limit game code to unambiguous characters

Certain characters are difficult to distinguish from each other.

• O and 0 (remove 0, O is already not allowed)
• B and 8 (remove B)
• S and 5 (remove 5, S is already not allowed)

Add sound effects

I don't think we need to spend too much time on this. Unless sound plays a meaningful role in the gameplay, which could be interesting to explore.

Create custom HTML template for WebGL build

The default one with logos at the bottom could look better.

Add mute button

When we add sound effects in #7, we need a way to mute those bad boys.

Create instructions

This could be on the Join/Host screen, or on a web page if we make a WebGL build

Death animations (blood / fall)

Place player and exit

We have a few options here.

1. Always start the player and exit on the same tiles
2. Completely randomize the player and exit locations
3. Preselect a few tiles (e.g. the four corners) and randomly choose between them; whichever preset spawn point the player is on, choose the opposing one for the exit

I'm partial to option 3. Whichever route we choose, we'll have to carve a path in the dungeon if the spawn points ends up in a wall.

Support hitting enter to start game

I keep trying to hit enter after entering the game code.

Add UI

• Title screen with player 1 / player 2 prompt (#3)
• Player 2: game code prompt
• Game code (just keep it visible in corner?)
• Game over screen

Also #9 and (possibly) #6.

Prevent player movement while on Monument or Exit screens

When the full-screen UI for the monument or glyph selection is displaying, you can still move your player around with keyboard commands.

It's weird and also messes with being able to dismiss the UI via a keyboard command because the button loses focus (I think).

Create rivers

These will be slightly different from walls in that you can see across them, but not move across them without a bridge.

Spawn monsters

These could be like pits where you die if you run into them, unless you have a weapon.

Fix monsters changing sprite

When they move, the monster's sprites change.

Make WebGL build

Make sure there are no problems with WebGL. I don't anticipate any.

Add win and lose jingles

It's what the player came for. Our old friend Kenney has jingles that might fit the bill.

Connect dungeon generation to random seed

I created a "game code" (random seed) generator in #3 and basic dungeon generation in #8. Now we need to connect the two concepts.