GiantessRun goes sunset, post-mortem devlog, open source avaliable (Patreon)

Time to finally move on. GiantessRun at v1.11 is now a legacy game. As a personal duty as developer, I’m sharing its source code for free download at Itchio for future studies (last verified and tested on Godot 3.6). As I go to Godot 4.3.x, with highly changed patterns and more sofisticated personal game libraries, new ideas appears to me, like dialogue sequences, destructible objects, longer levels etc. So it’s not like building a remake version, but focusing on creating new games. For it, we must let go of legacy projects.

GiantessRun was built initially on Godot 3.2.x, and now we are on Godot 4.3.x. Although I went into a big test fight to upgrade the entire game into the new 4.x paradigm, more and more I found that an learning gamedev’s job should be used as guide for iteration, not maintained for so long (the first version was made in 2021 I think). So, for a legacy system, it's time to move on for new projects.

YOU CAN READ THE ENTIRE POST-MORTEM HERE: https://xptz.itch.io/giantessrun/devlog/804276/postmortem-giantessrun-turns-legacy-going-open-source-soon 

I have friends who commissioned me to make their OCs appear in GiantessRun, but I contacted ‘em for the project change. I have new game ideas, which basically makes it an entire new game. I love the Wonder Boy I/Adventure Island I game, and I want to make one similar to it, destructible objects, dialogues, powerups and a basic story behind it. It’s gonna be a new GiantessRun game, maybe with another name, idk yet.

Everything I’ve learned during those years, all experiments and the codetest made by lots of people (who even without updates are still downloading the game for free today). I should thank everybody who tested it and commented about bugfixes and suggestions. You made this game possible, testing and giving feedback, now an amateur can call himself a gamedev and is finally able to tackle harder challenges.

TYSM ALL GUYS/GIRLS! THANKS FOR PLAYING MY SILLY GAME! FOR THE NEXT ADVENTURE!! ♥