User:Thijshijsijsjss/Prototypes/Benches

I was notified by Alessia that Jordan Magnuson, author of the book Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practise, has initiated a magazine of the same name. The first issue will release later this year, and there's an open submission.

• Deadline intent to submit: April 15
• Deadline game submission: June 15
• Deadline (extended): July 15
• Theme: first moves

Idea

Place a stick figure in a scene by pressing a key. The figure is placed according to a moving slider. In each scene, consisting of a photo taken in Rotterdam, there is another figure drawn. The scenes form a series of vignettes in which the figures are increasingly difficult to place next to each other: at first by increasing the slider speed, then by the hostile architecture the vignettes exhibit.

Technical Notes

Web

I've never built a Godot game for the web, but this is a conventient excuse to learn how that's done.

1. Based on this video, I downloaded the GitHub mirror's web build template

1. After regular export, I use [1] to setup a live server to test.

Image Resolution

Similarly I have never used photos directly in a Godot game. I had a lot of scaling issues, that were mostly solved by enabling mipmaps:

Project settings > Rendering > Textures > Canvas Textures > Default Texture Filter > Linear Mipmap
Then reimport the relevant assets with the mipmap box checked

References

• Selection of game poems curated by the magazine's editorial team
• ...