Infinitrap 1.0.4 just released!

This version contains a lot of changes. In order to offer a pleasant experience even for more casual players. For example, the character can now hang from the edges instead of falling (when possible). Also, if he gets hit by a projectile, he loses his coins instead of dying instantly. For those who prefer a bigger challenge, the “hardcore” difficulty mode disables these changes.

We wish you a lot of fun 🙂

Complete changelog:

Features / changes:

– You can now grab ledges instead of falling for the first 2 difficulty modes.
– No more insta-death if you have coins, for the first 2 difficulty modes too.
– Scoreboard calculation have changed.
– Scoreboard resetted for campaign dungeons.
– Checkpoints now store keys and coins.
– Crystal skull resets death count.
– Updated run animations.
– Increased range for slide-jumps.
– Vertical jumping is now more forgiving. read more

How to make a multiplayer game in Godot 3

Introduction

This article is intended for people who want to learn how to use Godot 3 to make a multiplayer game with no experience in the network field.The magic with Godot is that the majority of the difficulty with multiplayer is hidden by the engine itself.

I’ve attached a sample game with source code, you can download it and read it to better understand how it works. This program is pretty easy to use, you launch one instance as a server and many others as clients that connect to the server.

Even though I’ve been developing games for several decades and have used multiple engines in the past, my experience with Godot is quite recent (only a few months), so if you see anything horrible in the code, please let me know.

https://github.com/cobolfoo/godot3-spacegame/

Description of the game

It’s an arcade top-down space combat game. You use WASD to move and SPACEBAR to shoot. When you die, you reappear at a random location. A server is used to host the game space. Clients connect to the server to control a ship. There is a login form that asks for the player’s name and the color of the ship.

First, let’s start with the server:

To start a server, it’s pretty easy. You create a new scene containing any kind of node (I used Node). You create a script and attach to this node. You put this code in your script:

func _ready(): 
    var peer = NetworkedMultiplayerENet.new()
    var result = peer.create_server(5555, 32)
    get_tree().set_network_peer(peer) 
    get_tree().connect("network_peer_connected", self, "player_connected")
    get_tree().connect("network_peer_disconnected", self, "player_disconnected") 

func player_connected(id): 
    print("Callback: player_connected:", id) 

func player_disconnected(id): 
     print("Callback: player_disconnected:", id) 

This code create a server listening on port 5555 and allow up to 32 connections. If someone connect, player_connected function will be called. The same for disconnection with the  player_disconnect function.That’s it, you have a basic server running now.

On the client:

This is pretty much the same thing, you create a scene, add a node and a script, then you type:

func _ready(): var peer = NetworkedMultiplayerENet.new()     peer.create_client("127.0.0.1", 5555)     get_tree().set_network_peer(peer)   get_tree().connect("connected_to_server", self, "client_connected_ok")     get_tree().connect("connection_failed", self, "client_connected_fail")     get_tree().connect("server_disconnected", self, "server_disconnected") func client_connected_ok():     print("Callback: client_connected_ok") func server_disconnected():     print("Callback: server_disconnected") func client_connected_fail():     print("Callback: client_connected_fail") read more

20 dungeons out of 30.

We’re moving fast. The forced containment due to the Coronavirus allows us to work faster (Shadebob Games is a group of part-time developers in normal times). We have completed the first 20 dungeons out of a total of 30, required for the release of the full version of the game.

Stay tuned for more to come!

Re-using your deaths to complete a level

While working on the game, we added corpses to mark the places where the player died (you keep respawning in the same level until you complete it). Then we told ourselves that it would be nice to interract with theses bodies. Like jumping on floating bodies to get pass an acid lake. It means that you need to die a certain number of times and it will impact your score but you get rid of the obstacle.

I don’t want to make it mandatory to complete a level, but I think it is nice to have alternative ways to achieving your goal. What do you think about this “feature” ? read more

Version 0.24 BETA just got released on itch.io

Hi everyone, we are happy to announce that after 8 weeks of hard work we just released version 0.24 of our beta game.

– A intro video (still WIP) is bundled with the game.
– We just introduced the story mode along 11 new levels.
– Online scoreboards are now ready.
– A $@#$ton of bugs have been fixed.

Also we do not accept participants for the beta anymore. We wish to thank everyone who is participating to the success of this game.