The Void Moon

-- The Game --

Hello there! This is my entry for Mech Jam V, The Void Moon.

It's a bite-sized metroidvania about a robot on a rescue mission in a lunar base. The secondary theme used is "Weird Fiction": The moon is not what it should look like. This is not a horror game but it has some bizarre, including the text and some appearances.

-- Controls --

I configured many control schemes to try and match most people's setup.

The basic controls are WASD + Left/Right Click of the Mouse.

You can also use ArrowKeys + Z/X (pico-8 style)

You can also use WASD + SPACE + CTRL (who does that?)

But the best way to play this is for sure using a gamepad. It has automatic support, so just plug in and play.

-- Content --

I was inspired by some metroidvanias in which you can acquire enemies' abilities, and tried to turn it into puzzle mechanics. As in, kill enemy X to get access to its power and go to place Y. Then kill another enemy to get access to another ability and so on. Of course, there are classic abilities and items, too.

As a Jam Game, this game is short (it has about 10-12 rooms)  but I've tried to make it as "metroidvania-y" as possible. My goal this time was to improve my tooling process and combine the knowledge I gathered from my past jams to make something more complex than I would normally make for a jam. Also, I'm trying to improve my art skills as much as I can. I hope y'all like it!

-- Credits --

- This game was made by me as a solo dev during the time of this jam.

- I've used CC0 fonts from https://not-jam.itch.io/ (really good stuff there)

- I used Godot 4.2 as the game engine.

- My other tools were Aseprite (art), Spritemancer (particle effects), and FL Studio. All SFX and Songs were made during the jam period, using FL Studio and UVI instruments (8-Bit-Synth, Austrian Grand, Drum Designer)

- I also used 3 Godot Add-Ons: Beehave (https://bitbra.in/beehave/#/), Phantom Camera (https://phantom-camera.dev/), and PostProcessing (https://github.com/ItsKorin/Godot-Post-Process-Plugin).