Starter Kit for a Top-Down Action Adventure Game

dialog-after-pickingup.mp4

Work-in-progress of a action adventure starter kit for Godot 4. NOTE: Developed in and compatible with Godot 4.3. It looks like that MeshLibrary is breaking compatibility with 4.2.

Credits and thank you to:

• @kaylousberg for the FREE Kaykit Prototype Bits as a base for the 3D Assets;
• Dialogic2's contributors for their amazing dialogue manager, used for all my dialogues and cutscenes;
• Beehave's contributors for their amazing decision tree add-on, used for my ennemies;
• @kenney for his Input Prompt assets and Interface Sound assets;
• kidscancode tutorials for the building block of a DebugLayer

Follow me on Twitter/X to get regular updates about the development and coming features:

Loading the project for the first time:

1. Clone or download this repository in a folder
2. Open the project in Godot (there will be a lot of errors, because of missing add-ons)
3. Click on AssetLib, search for Beehave and install it
4. Download Dialogic2 from here
5. Unzip, find the dialogic folder (in the folder addons) and paste it in the res://addons folder of the Godot project
6. Go in Project/Project Settings, in the tab Plugins, activate both Beehave and Dialogic
7. (Optional) For your peace of mind, you might want to reload the project
8. Run the Game!

Features:

Gridmap Powered

Discover how I use Gridmapd and NavMeshRegion together:

gridmap-navmesh.mp4

And how I organised my levels:

Ennemy with Behaviour Tree based AI

Discover how I use Beehave to implement a simple chase and hit behaviour:

3-enemies-chasing-with-behave-tree.mp4

Character Controller

Support Gamepad or Keyboard, select between 4 controller schemes:

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Camera follows Main Character and can be rotated with RT/LT.

Animation System based on a Blend Tree and Fully modelled and rigged character:

demo-blendtree-hero.mp4

Logic based on a State Machine (inspired from GDQuest tutorials):

Switch system

Short switches, long switches, area switches can control enemy spawners and doors through a switch hub:

switch-demo-full.mp4

Here an example to close the doors and start spawning ennemies when a player walks in a room:

Cutscene and Game Events

Discover how I create dialogs that react to the player interactions:

demo-game-event.mp4

Discover how I made cutscenes using the Animation Player and Dialogic:

showing-animation-player.mp4

Advanced Import methods

Discover how my GLTF files become destructible objects on drag-and-drop:

showing_import_as_destructible.mp4

Game Feel Included

Destructible elements, Hit feedback, Particles, Recoil animation (more to come):

Discover an example of explosion VFX:

Always wanted to replicate the Inifinite Inertia from Godot 3?

Collision layers are set up to reproduce the infinite_inertia property which was dropped in Godot 4:

demo_infinite_inertia_replicated.mp4

Debug Layer and Stats

Work-in-progress, display properties when pressing L:

Controls

Press start button of your gamepad to open a menu and select between 3 controller schemes:

• One Stick Controller (move with Left Stick, aim with Left Trigger, shoot with B)
• Two Stick Controller (move with Left Stick, aim with Right Stick, shoot with Left Trigger)
• Two Stick Auto-Shoot Controller (move with Left Stick, aim and shoot with Right Stick, Move Camera with RT/LT)

If no Gamepad only the One Stick Controller works at the moment:

• Move with Arrow keys
• Jump with Space key
• Aim with Q key
• Shoot with W key (you can only shoot if you are aiming)

Debug Layer which can be toggled with L key