Prototype Available to the Public!

I was inspired to make this game by @PirateSoftware on Twitch and his child channel @FerretSoftware.

Thor's story telling ability and passion for ferrets and game making have been a driving force to get me to sit down and learn how to make and publish a game. If you're interested in game development at all check out his Twitch and Youtube, as well as his site to learn more about Game Development

The draft of the Game Design Document took me day or of work spread across a week. I'd love feedback and ideas for it especially on Art and Music as that's not my forte and would happily onboard people with those skill sets to the project.

I chose to support the opensource movement and picked only opensource tools where possible, to that end the project is make in Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine, uses GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program, Libresprite, mapeditor/tiled: Flexible level editor (github.com) for art assets, and LMMS/lmms: Cross-platform music production software (github.com), audacity/audacity: Audio Editor (github.com) for audio editing. All the source code for this will be publicly available over on dkopec/ferret-rescue: A 2D pixel art pet sim game inspired by FerretSoftware on twitch. (github.com).

Godot had a lot to teach me as I delved in. Once I got over the idea of how programmy/object oriented the engine is I started to get things put together. I ran into some issues once I started getting the project integrated with source control and CI/CD automation on Github I ran into some compatibility issues between Godot4 and Github pages (which does support SharedArrayBuffer and Cross Origin Isolation) so I reverted to Godot3.5.3 which made me re-build the project.

So most of this release has been Design or CICD and I'm hoping to take the the next few weeks to sit down and get some of the core systems in place for the game so there is more to do then just have a ferret chase the cursor. I also want to get some proper assets loaded into the game so if you are a Artist or Musician that wants to add their talent and name to the project let me know!

Right now all monetization is disabled until those assets get swapped out. After that we will likely make it a donation model for any further development.

Looking forward to hearing from the community, later goblins!