Luanti Game Jam: Day 16

Day 16

I made 4 levels:

• Level 13 is the introduction to mineable reflectors. It is an empty room where you have to place the mineable reflectors yourself. It also hints at story.
• Level 14 is a similar empty room with mineable reflectors.
• Level 15 is the anti-gravity introduction. This required adding the option to set moon-like gravity on a per-level basis, which was fairly simple since I already implemented anti-gravity.
• Level 16 is the "deja-vu" level. You repeat the same sequence three separate times.

With the amount of levels I added, I also worked on quite a bit of story, updating/adding dialogue. See the day 14 log for some plot details:

/blog/2025-11-21-luanti-game-jam-2025-day-14/index.html

I added an anti-gravity toggle node, which will go into the boss fight.

Other bug fixes/cleanup:

• The hand can now break otherwise "unmineable" blocks in creative.

Checklist from yesterday

[ ] Make more levels!! Level ideas:

• [x] Mineable reflector introduction level
• [x] Deja-vu: The same section gets repeated multiple times (maybe in anti-gravity)

• [ ] Work on endgame (boss fight)
• Timed
• [ ] Add a credits screen
• [x] Add a node that toggles anti-gravity
• [ ] Add a GUI for going back to previous levels
• [x] Add dialogue when needed
• [x] Rotate level 10
• [x] Start regenerating when joining if the player isn't at full health
• [x] Code cleanup

[ ] Work on stuff for submitting to ContentDB:

• [ ] Update README to further explain what the game/story is about
• [ ] More/better screenshots

Overall plans

For this last week, the "Plans for tomorrow" and "Overall plans" checklist will be merged.

• [ ] Make more levels (no level ideas right now)!!
• [ ] Work on endgame (boss fight)
• Timed
• [ ] Add a credits screen
• [ ] Add a GUI for going back to previous levels
• [ ] Code cleanup

[ ] Work on stuff for submitting to ContentDB:

• [ ] Update README to further explain what the game/story is about
• [ ] More/better screenshots

Might do (non-breaking)

• [ ] Combine the reflector nodes into one node
• [ ] Combine the buttons into one node
• [ ] Reuse the same reflector textures for both regular and mineable reflectors
• [ ] Optional mod to add music
• Boss: potentially Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 "Italian", movement IV. Saltarello presto, in some retro/chiptune form if possible
• [ ] Fix item adding/removing to focused slot (maybe; I have no idea how to fix this!!)
• [ ] An achievement system
• [ ] Figure out and implement emerging
• [ ] Combine levels 11 and 12

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More information about the jam can be found here:

Luanti Game Jam 2025

The code is on Codeberg:

Codeberg repository