Created for the GMTK 2024 Game Jam: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2024

For the best experience, try the desktop build of the game. Web build may have bugs.

Nood Dude Skydiving League

You are Lario, buck naked and ready to jump out of a plane as the newest member of the Nood Dude Skydiving League. Dive through rings to impress the judges and scale up your formation! Rack up sweet, sweet points to win!

Your goal is to link up with other skydivers to scale up your formation, then fly through rings to score points. Grow your formation to match the objectives listed at the top of the screen and you just might impress the judges, and, more importantly, yourself.

Controls

There are two options for controls - keyboard and mouse. Choose whichever one suits you best!

Keyboard

W, A, S, D	Move Forward, Left, Back, Right
Space	Fall Faster
Shift	Let go of all dudes / Slow down (can be held)

Mouse

Move mouse	Move in the direction of the mouse (while it is moving)
Left click	Fall Faster
Right click	Let go of all dudes / Slow down (can be held)

Strategy Guide

~~ This outlines the intended way to play the game, if you want to figure it out for yourself, don't read this ~~

1. Hit escape to pause the game and read over each of your objectives. Memorize the first three and treat the fourth one like a nice bonus if you can get it.

2. Un-pause and fly towards the next ring. A compass appears over your player showing you which way to go. A shadow of the ring is shown where it will cross your path. Make sure at least one member of your formation is inside the ring to score points.

3. When you pass through a ring, each judge will give you points. Points are multiplied by your "ring multiplier", which goes up each time you pass through a ring, and resets if you miss a ring.

4. When you pass a ring, any dudes you are connected to who are outside of the ring will disconnect from you. Dudes who are not connected to you will pull their 'chutes and disappear forever.

5. It's not always bad to let dudes break off on a ring. You have until the next ring to go and re-connect with them. As long as some dudes go through the ring, your multiplier will not reset, and some judges reward you for breaking off dudes. Conversely, it is always bad to miss a ring.

6. If you want to reconfigure your formation, HOLD shirt or the right mouse button. All your dudes will break off of you, and you will fall slowly, so you can go around and re-connect in a better formation.

7. You can hold space or left mouse button to fall faster. This is never helpful and only included because it feels good to go fast.

8. Sometimes, rings are spawned in a spiral. These are your chances to cash in big on having a good formation. Once you start going through the spiral, you won't have enough time to fix your formation, so use the altimeter on the right to know when a spiral is coming and get prepared.

~~ Have fun jumping nood and hooking up your dudes ~~

Asset Licenses

Asset	Source	License
Game Over Screen Audio	Farting Around	link
All  Other Audio Assets	https://pixabay.com/	link
Ocean Texture	https://2minutetabletop.com/	link
Godot Engine	https://godotengine.org/	link
Godot Shaker Plugin	https://github.com/Rofle44-git/shaker-plugin-gd4	link