Description

Beet Up is a short action based arcade style game, with the single objective of getting the highest score possible depending on how long the player manages to survive. As more enemies come from outer space, the task of protecting the centre of the screen gets harder, forcing the player to manage the currency acquired throughout play in order to progress through several powerup trees. Eventually the enemies become unmanageable, leaving the player with only their highscore to contemplate.

Contribution

Being developed for the 2023's edition of Global Game Jam, with the theme "Roots", the team spent quite a while brainstorming an idea, after which tasks were delegated to different members. Taking into account the theme and the concept of protecting a core from enemies burrowing underground, this idea of managing what has already been burrowed vs what hasn't, had to be represented to the player in some way, which became my responsibility throughout the jam, only managing to crack the approach well into the 48 hour time limit.

Since Godot lacked any such feature out of the box, the R&D process consisted of checking what had been done regarding such feature, and hacking way a solution that worked for us based on other people's efforts. This resulted in a collider associated with a sprite, that on collision with the enemies, recalculates itself on given time intervals, based on a boolean operation that takes into account the enemy's collider. Other than that, general bug fixing is always on the menu in these types of projects, with the game coming together pretty neatly in the last couple of hours.

TLDR

• Classic arcade style game.
• Developed in Godot.
• Made for GGJ 2023, with "Roots" as a theme.
• Tackled the game's dynamic collision system.
• Naturally helped around with the game's conception and debug process.