Colonite

Meet Coly: a one-eyed cutie that like to wander endlessly. Together, they form a colony: a Colies!

Colies didn't like outsiders. With limited resource to spawn them, find the best spawn strategy to beat all the outsiders.

Basic control:

• Left click to spawn a Coly
• Right click to spawn 5 Colies
• 50 resources is needed to spawn each Coly

Gameplay video: YouTube

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Demonstrating a quick game project with Godot 4.x for GitHub's Game Off 2023.

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but here are couple of technical notes:

To match with the 'scale' theme, Coly's health and strength is represented by its scale. It can grow in size after consuming dead outsiders.

This game is highly inspired by old flash game called "Micro Life" (it was my first flash game back then), and also a relatively chill gameplay like "Eufloria" where most of the game mechanics are handled by the game rather than user's aggression to move/attack here and there by clicking or mashing the keyboard.

Due to the nature of the Jam, I leave optimization untouched. So spawning lots of unit in the "Free Arena" will lags a lot depending on the machine as the target scanning only uses primitive array operation. Chase movement is also very simple "move to the point" scheme without any advanced navigation algorithm.

The source code for this project is available here. 

If you ever need a Godot starting template/boilerplate with git, kindly check our template repo here. It contains minimum component to quickly start off your Godot project like main menu, settings page, and empty level scenes.

This is my first time creating a game, both using a game engine and using Godot in general. I have a background in coding, but I've never coded a game before.  I really appreciate any suggestions!