Make a procedural Lemmings clone that is also a to-do list and implements the game jam mechanics (DK15)

Final update & thoughts

Game is playable at https://ry-games.itch.io/todo-town

I managed to submit something for the game jam within the original deadline however once I’d uploaded it I realized there were a few issues with the build. Luckily the game jam deadline got increased by a couple of days which gave me some time to fix these issues. I’ve decided to stop here after 2 weeks and having given it some thought I think this is something I might on a more regular basis. Week 3 is always incredibly grueling so why not just skip it do something else and return to the project at a later date. I don’t think I would have had this idea if I hadn’t started late so I guess that all worked out well in the end. In the future I’ll probably be doing DK15’s (possibly 2) instead of DK30’s and I’ll see how it goes. As for this project I think it went quite well. I managed to make a simple, playable game that I’m happy with and even though I did not manage to implement the game persistence and to-do list mechanics that I wanted, I feel I can add these at a later date. I’m also starting to see the benefits to using stronger architectural practices for certain projects.

Week 2 - A slow decent into madness

Since I wanted to submit something for the game jam and I had started late I only had 1 more week to try and make something that was playable. This meant that the stronger architectural practices that I’d used in the first week got abandoned in favor of writing code that was quick and messy. This allowed me to get a lot done in week 2. I managed to make a procedural terrain generator, add more unit abilities, add some music and make the basic rules for winning the game. Although much of this code is a mess, I can tidy it up at a later date if I choose to continue with this project.

Week 1 - A slow but strong start

I’m very new to the Godot engine and I have also been learning about programming patterns and architecture since earlier on this year. So when I started this project I decided to try and implement some stronger architecture as well as some of the patterns. This seemed to go reasonably well but did take significantly longer to get the project going. I managed to implement the basics of the game with units moving around and able to perform some basic actions on a predefined level.