zshoals/xkcdgamejam

https://itch.io/jam/xkcdgamejam

xkcdgamejam

https://itch.io/jam/xkcdgamejam

Check out the resulting game at: https://blazingmammothgames.itch.io/bun-snap

How to Build + Run

1. Clone the repo recursively:

$>git clone --recursive https://github.com/BlazingMammothGames/xkcdgamejam.git

2. Build with node:

$>node kha/make html5

3. The compiled files will be in the build/html5 folder—serve them up with whichever http server you like!

Ideas

• Bookstore: you have to escape a bookstore which is trying to make you pay for all the knowledge in your head that is also in their books
  • Action game
  • Top-down
• A Mole of Moles: explore a moon made of moles
  • Side-scrolling platformer
  • Dodge the volcanic plumes of hot meat & methane bubbles
  • Alternate: colonize the galaxy with moles!
• Bun: take pictures of buns, searching for a glimpse of the King Bun
  • Like Pokémon Snap, but with buns
• The Man Who Fell Sideways: try to live your life as gravity pulls you sideways
  • Side-scrolling platformer
  • Gravity pulls you to the right, not down
• Voynich Manuscript: play some rounds in the world of the Voynich, à la DnD
  • DnD-style RPG
• T-Rex Calories: cook 80 burgers for a T-Rex before he gets too hungry and bites you in half!
  • Cooking game, serving burgers (and other things?) to a hungry T-Rex
• Lunar Swimming: play a game of extreme water polo in a pool on the moon
• Orb Hammer: fly a rocket to the moon and smash the glowing orb with a hammer until some chunks break off, then head home.
• Margaret: go on a mission to kick God's ass
  • Fighting game
  • Fight angels on your way to the big guy
• Geologist: hunt rare rocks and mount them on your wall

Chosen Idea

• Bun: take pictures of buns, searching for a glimpse of the King Bun
  • Like Pokémon Snap, but with buns

Asset Credits

• "Rabbit" by Google is licensed under CC BY 3.0
• "Rocky Mountain Outdoors: wind and birds" by Pete Buchwald is licensed under CC0 1.0
• "Low Poly Forest Pack" by Jaks is © Jaks
• "Mute" by Rajive Sharma is licensed under CC BY 3.0 US
• "Targa Mono" by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
• "XKCD-Regular" by Randall Munroe is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5
• "Camera Shutter Click 03" by Sound Jay is © Sound Jay
• "Footsteps in Forest - 01.mp3" by Gutek is licensed under CC0 1.0