Luanti Game Jam: Day 18

Day 18

I created Level 20. It's sort of a gauntlet, so it's fairly hard. I might tone it down, but likely not.

I (fully) started work on Level 21, the final level, or so-called "boss fight"[1]. I worked on it a bit before, but now I can focus on it for the full time.

I modified the XBows arrow HUD and made it stay permanently on screen once you obtained the bow. Now, the arrow HUD is next to the hotbar.

Other bug fixes/cleanup:

• I tweaked levels 5, 8, and 13. The tweaks are listed below in the "Checklist from yesterday".

I'm starting to feel a little fatigue from all this Luanti game development. I'm pretty glad this is ending in about three days.

Checklist from yesterday

• [x] Make one or two more levels
• [ ] Work on endgame (boss fight)
• Timed
• [ ] Add a credits screen
• [ ] Add a GUI for going back to previous levels

[x] Level tweaks:

• [x] Move the arrow block one block higher in level 5
• [x] Move the button to somewhere less accessible in level 8
• [x] Start with orange showing and improve button placement in level 13

• [x] Always show how many arrows are left
• [ ] 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.

[ ] Work on endgame (boss fight)

• [ ] Boss fight:
• Timed
• [ ] Add optional callbacks when the target is clicked and when dialogue ends (for boss fight)
• [ ] Add the option for custom coloured dialogue (for AI character text)

• [ ] Add a credits screen
• [ ] Add a GUI for going back to previous levels

[ ] Level tweaks:

• [ ] Have a more "random" initial reflector placement in levels 13 and 14
• [ ] Extend level 18

• [ ] 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
• [ ] Minify XBows

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More information about the jam can be found here:

Luanti Game Jam 2025

The code is on Codeberg:

Codeberg repository

[1]: It's not really a boss fight, but I'll continue calling it a "boss fight".