Dungeoncrawler

Dunjin (working title) is a WIP multiplayer platform fighter using Godot ver 3.5.3. The game is currently in a prototype state.

Motivation#

I wanted to make the TTRPG combat experience more enjoyable, using medieval themes but a real time battle system that allows for a high skill ceiling. I’m using a smash archetype for the character controller, but plan to have this as both a single-player and multiplayer game. This is currently a solo project: I did all the art and code, but the parallax background behind the windows was sourced from here.

Notes#

• You can view the design document here. There is a more extensive working document which I can provide on request.
• The current state of the project was intended for demo/testing at the November ATL Gamedevs meetup. It is still in a primitive, but playable state, with some of the more complex systems not implemented yet.
• Preliminary playtests brought a lot of feedback:
  • Hitboxes are somewhat disjointed
  • Ledge mechanics are in an early state and will be revamped soon.
  • L-cancelling will be added or landing lag will be eliminated entirely

Features#

• All attacks and character interactions occur on a 60fps timescale as is genre standard
• Up to 4 player local multiplayer (engine limitation)
• Character controls inspired by Super Smash Brothers Melee
  • In-depth movement system with wavedashing, moonwalking etc
  • Unique directional attack inputs which change depending on player state (tilts, aerials, etc.)
• Instantly configurable character skins using Aseprite + Aseprite Wizard addon (not configured in-game yet)
• Multiplatform: works on Windows, Linux, MacOS

Planned additions#

Vaguely ordered by priority

• Features
  • Sound
  • Level and character selection
  • More characters
  • Roguelike segment
  • Dynamic sprite additions
• Systems
  • Stitched Wave Function Collapse based procedural level generation
  • Online multiplayer with rollback netcode using Godot Rollback Netcode plugin
  • Multithreaded matchmaking system