Outpost Assault Game Jam

Description

It’s time to end the year and celebrate the new one with another Quiver game jam! In this jam, you’ll be tasked with building on our open source tower defense template, Outpost Assault, and adding one or more new tower types or new enemy types.

You can either adapt and extend an existing tower or enemy or create your own from scratch. The template includes three tower types (gatling, cannon, and missile) and four enemy types (tier one infantry, tier two infantry, tanks, and helicopters). So you should have a lot to work with, but feel free to create your own.

Getting started

• First, follow the installation instructions on the Outpost Assault Github page to download the template and start using it.
• [For Quiver+ subscribers] If you are a subscriber to Quiver+, you have access to our tower defense tutorial where we build Outpost Assault from scratch. This will give you a leg up in understanding how the code is organized.
• [Recommended] Create a project page for your submission to document your progress on the game jam.

Tips

If you’d like to make a custom enemy, you can inherit from the Enemy scene. Note that the enemy doesn’t shoot by default, so if you’d like to add shooting mechanics, you can add a Shooter to the enemy. You can look at the Tank scene as an example off adding shooting capabilities to an Enemy scene.

If you’d like to make custom tower, you can inherit from the Tower scene. The base Tower scene has a Shooter component by default.

Getting help

If you get stuck, you can try to get help on the Quiver Discord. We can’t guarantee that someone will be able to help you, but we’ll do our best.

Assets

You can use the assets included with Outpost Assault. Feel free to use any external assets as well, but please make sure you have rights to use those assets.

Submitting your game

You can submit your entry anytime the game jam is active. You will submit a zip file of your Godot project for us to run.

How the winners are picked

We will judge submissions based on technical excellence, art style, innovation, and the fun factor.

Also, please provide a detailed description of what makes your game interesting when you make your submission (there’s a form when you submit where you can enter this information).

Finally, the game development process can be as interesting as the final result. Post your project on our projects page and add updates to your projects as you build it so that we can follow along.

Technical Requirements

Please use Godot 4.0 or later.

Prizes

$500 USD for the first place finisher. $250 for the runner-up. In addition, we’ll donate $10 to Godot for every valid submission (up to maximum of $1,000). We’re counting each submission that makes a meaningful change to the original code.

Questions?

Check the FAQ. If you still have questions, leave a comment here or contact us directly.