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Creating an Ad for Uncontrollable Spaceship

I liked the awkward gameplay of the Uncontrollable Spaceship and I wanted to create a graphic to go along with it. I searched for astronaut clipart and found this image on Pixabay Starting with the vector version of the art, I cleaned it up a bit in CorelDraw (removing some hidden gook and…

Free Online Blob Maker Tool

I found this nifty free tool for making blob SVG shapes. If you are the kind of person who needs this kind of art, this is the tool for you. You can set the RGB color, the complexity (that seems to be how many node points it uses) and the…

My 1st Game Jam – Wowie Jam!

This is going to be a busy weekend! I’m preparing stuff for my card game “A Game of Porcelain Thrones” which is scheduled to launch on Kickstarter on April 1, 2019. And right in the middle of this, Jonas Tyroller comes up with his Wowie Jam! game jam. I’ve enjoyed…

Wowie Jam! Project Objectives

With so little time (and so little Godot programming knowledge), I want to make a solid list of doable project objectives for Uncontrollable Spaceship. Gameplay I have a lot of ideas for Uncontrollable Spaceship and my original intent was that it would have many or all of these as game…

Wowie Jam! Update #1

February 3, 2019 at 7:45 am There are days when an enormous amount of stuff just easily falls into place. Yesterday was not such a day. There are too many things I don’t know about using Godot that make simple tasks take a ton of research. I posted what I…

Wowie Jam! Update #2 added BOOM

Quick update: I added a BOOM! What would a pilot of an Uncontrollable Spaceship do if they got stuck? Throw a hand-grenade out the window and see what happens! The BOOM! button throws out a hand-grenade that explodes with random force in a random direction. If it bounces your ship…

Wowie Jam! Update #3 Global Variables in Godot

I’ve read this documentation page on Singletons so many times. And so many other online Q&A’s about making Global variables in Godot. And those usually point back to that same documentation page. It’s actually SO simple that it needs to be explained more simply: Here’s what worked: Make a new…

Wowie Jam! Officially Entered

There’s an Uncontrollable Spaceship in the Wowie Jam! Made it with a few hours to spare. I am so tired! And I have to wake up soon! If you want to see the game for yourself, it’s downloadable for Windows: Here’s a quick video showing how you control your ship…

Excellent Godot 2D Tutorial Series

I just came across an excellent Godot 2D tutorial that would have helped a lot with trying to get stuff done for the Wowie Jam! game jam. There are so many things that I know must be possible (like having a title screen or global variables) but I don’t know…

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