Geomancer (WIP)

My first Godot project. A bullet heaven twin-stick shooter.

Local Development

• install Godot engine
• clone this repo and import to Godot
• ask me for assets, and put in /assets
• to change control setting, find /utilities/settings.gd and change defaults.controls.control_mode. gamepad and mouse+keyboard curently supported.

Development Timeline and Features

Week of 10/6 - Player Scene

• ✅ Make Player spritesheet
• ✅ make weapon spritesheet
• ✅ Player movement mechanics
• ✅ Player weapon wheel
• ✅ Projectiles and weapon shooting

Week of 10/13 - Enemy Scene

• ✅ Make Enemy spritesheet
• ✅ Make enemy projectile spritesheet
• ✅ Enemy movement behavior as a state machine

Week of 10/20 - Player vs. Enemy

• ✅ Health bar/circle
• ✅ Make healthbar fade out after hit
• ✅ Add dying anim for enemy
• ✅ Enemy projectile hit detection
• ✅ Player projectile hit detection
• ✅ Player health bar/wheel
• ✅ Make world an infinite plane with grid background
• ✅ Scoring system (display time and number of enemies killed)
• ✅ Game Over on player death
• ✅ Restart button
• ✅ Title screen

Week of 10/27 - Enemy Leveling

• ✅ Enemy strength levels. Create different instances of the enemy scene with varying strengths (hp and projectile properties):
• ✅ Enemy colors to indicate strength level
• (med) Enemies prestige as weapons do
• (high) Enemies grow stronger as a function of time and/or number of kills
• (low) varying enemy bullet patterns with aura to indicate

Week of 11/3 - Weapon Leveling

• (high) Enemies drop weapon XP
• (high) on XP gain weapon can do more damage, shoot faster, faster projectile speed, use less mana (opt.)
• (high) weapon strength indicated by smooth color gradient "aura" (particle effect maybe)
• (med) weapons can prestige, indicated by number next to it (after moving through full color gradient)
• (low) Mana wheel for player weapon(s)

Week of 11/10 - Catch Up Buffer

• Address existing bugs and other debt:
  • (critical) Fix enemy spawning
  • (critical) fix issue with UI in fullscreen
• (med) add custom cursor sprite
• (med) Aim assist for gamepad (see existing branch)
• (critical) need a way to set or detect control mode setting

Week of 11/17 - Polishing

• (critical) Add sound effects and soundtrack
• (high) Design new player sprite sheet
• (low) implement player Adds if time permits

Week of 11/24 - Release

• Last minute tweaks
• Choos release platform(s)
• Release

Target for release: 11/27/2025