A little unnamed project

Hello!

A little preface, I’ve been working on this project on and off for about a year now. It is a single player, asteroids style, action rpg in pixel form. I am primarily a visual artist and programming is not my strong suit by any means. I have had this idea in my head for a while now and I’m pleased with how it is coming together, but I think I have reached a point where I don’t have enough knowledge myself to code certain functions in.

Anyways, here are some shots of what I have developed so far!

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A little showcase of the starting screens. I might get rid of the faction selection option since it wouldn’t serve much purpose in a single player game (might save it for a later project though).

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The player creation screen. I have no idea how to save the selected options, so this doesn’t actually work yet and is more of just a proof of concept.

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A little showcase of the movement and art. I personally love the stars and the parallax effect.

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The building has an invisible shield that shows, temporarily, when it is shot. Also notice the camera moves with the cursor and the guns on the ship aim towards the cursor as well.

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A warp gate that sends you to other solar systems (scene changer). Still needs a little animation to let you know there’s a scene change and some way to randomize where you spawn in at.


And that’s what I have been able to figure out so far! I still need to add more ships, enemies, an inventory system, quests, dungeons, a saving/loading system, a health system, quests, indoor walking, interactable maps, and maybe a simple crafting system.

I have been having a lot of troubles recently figuring out how to code these things though, so if anyone has some good resources to learn or advice or if anyone is willing to help me out, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks for taking a look at my passion project and let me know what you think!

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I really like those faction symbols

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I am looking forward to the game! When you post the full game can you put it on itch.io please? Also, can you give the link to it on this post?

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I think AI tools are a great resource for indy developers working on our own, without a big team. ChatGPT can give you working GDScript code for example, if you feed it the correct prompt.

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Hey! I actually have the inverse issue, art is my bottleneck. The way I’m navigating the issue is by buying sprite assets. Sometimes I don’t get exactly what I need so I just have to make it happen with Gimp. Things that require more art/design expertise I just pay an expert to do it.

Good luck with the game, any issues you may encounter try to get help from the forum.

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This looks interesting. The faction symbols look cool, and fit well with the art style. I also like the faction selection idea. For a single player game, maybe the faction selection could be a way to offer variety in game experiences? Like different starting criteria and location, or who will be either friendly or hostile towards the player based on their faction?
Anyways, I’d be interested to see where you go with this project.

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