The making of MemoryOverflow

I had to make a game for a school project, so I made MemoryOverflow, a simple platformer game written in Godot for a school project.

Idea

So I started by asking ChatGPT for some ideas. I got to about the 20th idea and just gave up and came up with my own idea. ChatGPT is just not good for coming up with ideas.

The twist

A simple platformer isn’t usually very interesting but I included a twist where you run out of memory and need to collect more.

Development

I developed this in one of the best game engines ever created, Godot. Godot is an open source game engine, meaning I can distribute my game however I like without any companies trying to make money off it (Cough cough unity). Godot uses the GDScript language which is just Python, but with some game engine specific stuff, and func instead of def for reaons I don’t know.

Player code

Here is the code for the player for example

extends CharacterBody2D

@export var SPEED = 690
@export var JUMP_VELOCITY = -690

# Get the gravity from the project settings to be synced with RigidBody nodes.
var gravity = ProjectSettings.get_setting("physics/2d/default_gravity")
var landing = false

func _physics_process(delta):
	# Add the gravity.
	if not is_on_floor():
		velocity.y += gravity * delta
		landing = true
	if is_on_floor():
		if landing:
			$Land.play()
			landing = false
	# Handle Jump.
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("up") and is_on_floor():
		$Jump.play()
		velocity.y = JUMP_VELOCITY
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("down") and not is_on_floor():
		$Down.play()
		velocity.y = -JUMP_VELOCITY

	# Get the input direction and handle the movement/deceleration.
	# As good practice, you should replace UI actions with custom gameplay actions.
	var direction = Input.get_axis("left", "right")
	if direction:
		velocity.x = direction * SPEED
	else:
		velocity.x = move_toward(velocity.x, 0, SPEED)

	move_and_slide()

Open source

Code is here