Earth's Secrets

A narrative focused platformer made in only 1 month as part of both Github Game Off, November 2020  (theme constraint: "Moonshot") and Web Monetization Challenge, November 2020 (theme constraint: "Secrets")

Controls

Move -> Arrows / WASD / ZQSD / Xbox Left Stick

Jump -> UP / W / Z / Xbox B and A

Run -> SHIFT / Xbox L1 and R1

Climb -> Automatic, just jump with speed towards a ledge

Open/Close menu -> TAB / Xbox Start

Interact -> E / Xbox Y

You may need to use the mouse to navigate menus

Features

• 2D Platformer movement
• Climbing
• Multi-layer levels
• Dialogues, Lore and NPCs
• 4 secret artifacts hidden in the level
• Day/Night cycle with a "neverending day" mechanic (see Moonshot)
• Gas balloon top-down flights
• Save/Load system made during the jam
• Balloon skins (unlocked with web monetization)

Secrets

Secrets and notes are scattered around the levels which encourages exploration and autonomy. This game gives you much freedom to enjoy its peaceful, yet visually rich world.

Moonshot

The game features a day/night cycle system. You start at dawn and once you reach midnight you are brought back to the start of the level. Still, the most interesting and rewarding part of the game, which is your balloon, is hard to reach in a full day. It pushes the player to plan and learn the level to get to the balloon and take off before it's too late to enjoy a long and peaceful flight.

Also, the lore and story of the game is centered around the survival of the space dream after civilization collapse. (Don't expect much from it thought, it was made in a month)

Updates & Issues

The game will be updated here until the end of the jams: https://gotm.io/anicet-nougaret-studio/earths-secrets

The version on this page will stay the one I published before deadlines.

Follow us on twitter for future games!

https://twitter.com/AniC_dev

Known issues

• Talking to the Farmer makes your character freeze
  • FIX: Reload the game
• You can't skip the credits cutscene
  • Sorry for that, it's not pointless tho because you have to listen to the speech playing during that part since it's interesting for the story
• Various typos
  • Sorry for that, english is not my main language, please feel free to report them :)

Credits

Source code under an "All rights reserved" licence: https://github.com/AnicetNgrt/montgolfiere_godot

Our stuff

• Anicet Nougaret - Design, Art, Story, Code, Additional SFX
• Thibault Henrion - Balloon flight code and design

Public domain assets

Our game features public domain recordings of public domain classical pieces. All pieces found on https://musopen.org/

• Interpreted by Olga Gurevich
  • Composed by Chopin
    • Grande Valse brillante in B flat minor
    • Nocturne in B flat minor
    • Waltz in B flat minor, Op. 69 no.2
  • Composed by Charles Mayer
    • Valse mélancolique - Le Regret
• Interpreted by Paul Manjarrez
  • Composed by Alexander Scriabin
    • Fantasy in B Minor, Op 28.