Luanti Game Jam: Day 13

Day 13

I added two reflector nodes; one that reflects up, and one that reflects down. Currently, they're all separate nodes from the (sideways) reflectors, and I might try to combine them in the future, but for now, it's good enough.

I added two settings; one that disables dialogue (for speedruns) and one for making the glass framed. In my experience, the frames in the glass rendered weirdly, so I decided to have an option to turn that off/on.

Health is now automatically regenerated, because it seems unfair to only be able to lose 10 hearts of health throughout the whole game. Currently the health rate is 1 health point (1/2 a heart) every 0.2 seconds; I might lower the regeneration speed later.

The "change_level" command can now be used with default permissions to return to previous levels. Ideally, I would like to add a GUI for that, but at least the command is something.

I'm almost ready to add mineable reflectors (self-explanatory) for future levels. This will also let me tie in story, adding a reason for the boss fight.

Other bug fixes/cleanup:

• Mineable blocks are harder to preserve.
• Dialogue and transition HUD elements are no longer repeatedly destroyed and recreated; they are now reused, with their properties changing.
• The inventory formspec looks nicer.

I'm actually going to start work on the boss fight tomorrow. Most of the stuff I wanted to do today got done, so I have more time for boss fight work tomorrow.

Checklist from yesterday

• [x] Make one, if not two, more levels
• [ ] Potentially work on endgame (boss fight)
• Music: potentially Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 "Italian", movement IV. Saltarello presto, in some retro/chiptune form if possible
• Timed
• [x] Add option to disable dialogue

[ ] Anti-gravity preparation

• [ ] Node that toggles anti-gravity

• [x] A reflector node that shoots straight up
• [x] Automatic health regeneration
• [x] Make dialogue and (potentially) transitions not repeatedly create new HUD elements
• [x] Fix mineable blocks not being removed from inventory when resetting the section
• [x] Allow going back to previous levels
• [x] Small code cleanup

Plans for tomorrow

• [ ] Make one, if not two, more levels
• [ ] Potentially work on endgame (boss fight)
• Music: potentially Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 "Italian", movement IV. Saltarello presto, in some retro/chiptune form if possible
• Timed
• Credits screen

[ ] Anti-gravity preparation

• [ ] Node that toggles anti-gravity

• [ ] Add mineable reflectors and clean up reflector code
• [ ] Remove other mineable blocks during transitions/resets
• [ ] Add a GUI for going back to previous levels
• [ ] Improve the hearts/health texture
• [ ] Small code cleanup

Overall plans

• [ ] More levels!!
• [ ] Fix item adding/removing to focused slot (maybe; I have no idea how to fix this!!)

[ ] Add more environments and interactions:

• [ ] Anti-gravity/less gravity

[ ] Level ideas:

• [ ] Deja-vu: The same section gets repeated multiple times

• [ ] An achievement system

Might do (non-breaking)

• [ ] Combine the reflector nodes into one node
• [ ] Reuse the same reflector textures for both regular and mineable reflectors

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More information about the jam can be found here:

Luanti Game Jam 2025

The code is on Codeberg:

Codeberg repository