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Final

It took me a couple more hours to bring the game in a state I can leave it at.

With this at the finish line for me for now.

Here is all the messy code I created to build this 😄:

https://github.com/KANAjetzt/GardenRescue

And here you go to the game page:

🌱 Garden Rescue

Thinks I added

✅ Sound Effects ✅ Particle Effects ✅ Music ✅ Ambient Sounds ✅ One Animation ✅ One Light ✅ Save / Load System ✅ Pause Menu ✅ Main Menu ✅ Settings Menu ✅ Ropes on the Main Menu 😅

Thinks I didn’t do

❎ Added no new system ( plant health / watering etc. ) ❎ Didn’t rework the mouse interaction ( clicking like a maniac is still the most efficient ) ❎ Added no customers ❎ Added no decorations

And all of this

Thinks I learned

💡 Use Resources!

I’m glad I decided to implement the save games. It was a massive pain but I learned so much. I revamped most of my code after learning about resources and how to create and use them.

This is the Video I started with. At the end I had:

1. game_store to save all global game related data i want to save
2. plant_store all the plants there state and location
3. invetory_shack
4. inventory_store

I had a ton of bugs after loading the game:

Fix Inventory's not loading correctly

• There are a lot more of this todos 😄

Creating Sound Is Hard

I didn’t think it will be easy so I was mentally prepared to struggle a lot 😅

Music

The music part by far the worst - In the future I need some one to do this for me 👀

I used this, as a starting point:

• Ended up with this masterpieces

  Track 1 Track 2

SFX

I enjoyed creating these a lot more 😀 I used this free short course to get me somewhat ready:

Blipsounds

• In total I added 17 sound effects to the game

  
  

• I used this Mic to record

  Zoom H4n Pro Black/220GE Handy Recorder - Audio Aufnahmegerät (4 Spuren, Mikrofonverstärker, bis 140 db SPL, 3, 5 mm Klinke In, 24/48V Phantomspeisung, 1, 9" LCD, bis zu 32GB SD), schwarz

• At the end I’m happy with a view of the sounds I created - I like the scissor, buy and planting sound. But the digging sound really needs more work 😅

• Sell

  Sound 1
  

• Planting

  Sound 1
  

  Sound 2
  

  Sound 3
  

• Scissors

  Sound 1
  

  Sound 2
  

  Sound 3
  

  Sound 4
  

How do create a “rope”

• I used the tutorial on top to create most of it and then struggled for a howl day to put it on the title sign 😅

• Thats what I ended up with:

  
  

  Added 2 Pin Joins to the TitleBoard

  func _ready(): var rope_l = Rope.instance() var rope_r = Rope.instance()  # Connect the joins to the last RopePiece ropes.add_child(rope_l) rope_l.rope_end_joint = jl rope_l.get_node("RopeEndPiece").queue_free() rope_l.spawn_rope(rope_start_l.position, jl.position)  ropes.add_child(rope_r) rope_r.rope_end_joint = jr rope_r.get_node("RopeEndPiece").queue_free() rope_r.spawn_rope(rope_start_r.position, jr.position)  

• If someone can help make it more rope and less bouncy, it would be much appreciated 😀

Enhance the MainMenu

The godot input flow

• I ignored the issue of inputs going through the buildings and interacting with the ground behind them until the last day 😄

• On the search for a solution I found this handy chart:

  
  

  https://gdscript.com/solutions/godot-event-handling/

• Because the Buildings are Area2Ds with collision shapes the input gets handled after everyting else, even the Unhandled Input on the Plant / Ground Layer.

• So after trying to bend this to my will, I ended up just putting some gravel behind the buildings 😄

• That’s the easiest and cleanest solution I can think off 😅

Thinks I try to do next time

• Change my folder structure:

  • I startet with creating folders per “file type”

    
    

  • Next time I want to save all the files I need for one thing in the game

  • So I want to store the art, the code, the sound and everything related close by

  • Something like that:

    
    

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MROqj4x_e_A&ab_channel=DevDuck

  ``` / entities/ _shared/ damage/ deat - Pastebin.com

  We have tried both models and settled on the following rules:

  Every entity type (player, cannon, bullet etc.) gets its own folder. The folders usually contain folders (scripts, sounds, models). If we decide to use functionality from one entity in another, extract it and put it into a "shared" folder on a higher hirarchy level.

  Looks somewhat like this: https://pastebin.com/FRUVKUSa

  How do you structure your project files?

• Use resources from the get go ( no brainer )

• Create multiple audio busses from the get go

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At the end

Feedback on the buy and sell prices and everything else would be much appreciated 🙂

Thanks a lot for organizing this great game jam and I’m looking forward to the winter edition 👍

Cheers