Hello!

I am writing to ask for ideas from anyone of who you want to add and how they would be implemented.

There is a hobby I have of practicing my programming skills by creating open source versions of games I like to play.

For a while now, I have been really feeling the need for a GPL Super Smash Bros clone.

It would be so fun to have GNU and his family of characters (popular open source project mascots) to play as similar to how they have it in Tux Kart.

But, I am not very good with balancing and coming up with unique move sets. Could you help me out with fun ideas of what kind of fighting moves Tux and his friends might have.

If you have any special characters of your own design, then I can help after I add modding support.

The move set and control scheme will be exactly from the game this takes inspiration from (or latest version of it). This might change though, depending on what others may want.

Godot will be the game engine of course.

License will be AGPL-3.0 only! Unless there is a reason for another one.

Repository will be on codeberg.org as always

Name of Game: ??? Drop suggestions in the replies, thank you.

I am not the best developer and only really do quick prototypes, but with this information I can have a better direction of where to go. I can confidently tell you, this will not be too much of a challenge so you do not have to worry. So long as I have time to crunch, it can be made.

This posting is just for whoever may come across it so they can put their ideas out there. Development will not start immediately. I have not been able to work on anything at all recently, but will start again soon within the next few months.

I look forward to the thoughts of everyone. I very much prefer to work in Godot. Please ask as many questions as you need, I know this may not be so readable.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    11 days ago

    Character ideas: The KDE Konqi, Katie and the whole host of dragons (Yoshi style). Xenia the Fox alternate Linux mascot. Lemmy and Mastodon mascots.

    Provisional name idea: Smashtest (like Minetest until they figured out to call themselves Luanti).

    Other name ideas: Open Source Battle Royale

    Stage ideas:

    • Smart Home (Home Assistant themed),
    • GRUB (a few traversable lines or options)
    • GRUB rescue (one line, Final Destination style)
    • Rapid Coding (a DK falls-style scrolling map)
    • vim (a close quarters map similar to the Game & Watch map, optionally with walls as the characters are “stuck in vim”)
    • i3 (a pre-made map styled in a tiling window way, or perhaps dynamically splits the stage during battle)
    • compiz (do whatever you want as long as it looks cool, wobbly, wavy, cubey or 3d-like)
    • Hannah Montana Linux or Biebian (without a picture of the person in question but the colour scheme and the shape of stage elements would highly imply it’s those distributions)
    • Blender 3D interface
    • FreeCAD animated assembly

    Special Move ideas (that can work with most characters):

    • Update (a small rest/vulnerable period followed by a buff)
    • Mailing List (a beam of emails)
    • Harden/Vulnerability Patch (could paint/plaster offensive move, or it could be a curl up defensive move or roll around like yoshi/sonic/jigglypuff etc.
    • Release Candidate (powerful offensive move with some drawback or self damage)
    • Bug catch (a forceful two handed clap in front, or using a net)

    Other attacks:

    • cronjob (Tux tosses a clock that explodes)
    • Tail whips
    • Fire breath

    Obstacles, enemies, hazards:

    • a bug
    • a kernel panic/freeze
    • the meditation guru
    • firejail
    • a green-coloured GPU driver
    • git issues
    • dependencies/dependency hell
    • Blender default cube

    Your game doesn’t have to have every single element FOSS-themed, as it might make it feel too nerdy, but if you were short on this kind of idea and wanted some, here you go.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        TempleOS as a stage would be something incredibly fun yet incredibly annoying/imbalanced to the point it would get banned from competitive play.