Description

In Get Souped! you play as a "Godzilla-like" in a quest to make the best soup possible. Turns out though, that the main ingredient is a type of tiny creature that lives in a crowded city being ravaged by a contagious disease. Moving around the map, the player needs to guide creatures into the soup while avoiding the contamination by the infected, while also using the ability to stomp buildings, not only to spawn more creatures, but also kill any unneeded ones.

Contribution

Developed around the theme "Tiny Creatures" associated with the 56th edition of Ludum Dare, the team started by pitching around some ideas, and based on the chaotic nature of entity management that was achieved in Bonzios we came up with the idea of turning those entities into tiny creatures that have some autonomy and move around freely. The contextualization by using a Godzilla-like figure then came naturally, and somehow the culinary theme also got thrown into the mix somehow. Regarding actual development, the first task that was assigned to me was figuring out how we were going to mix the 3D buildings while keeping the classic 2D Godot engine workflow intact.

This mix ended up being accomplished by having a second camera rendering a 3D scene on the side - with all the corresponding buildings - and then using a texture overlayed on top of the 2D camera working as a render target for the 3D camera. Keeping both cameras in sync, as well as any other camera behaviour, like camera-shake for example, was also handled by me. Other than that, I also ended up being responsible for level design, putting the city together, but also behaviour related to the destruction of said city, from the buildings to the actual stomp that the player can perform.