Gemsmith - GWJ45

This game was made for the Godot Wild Jam #45, a challenge to make a complete game within 9 days.

The theme for the jam was: Underground

The following wildcards (optional challenges) were included:

- BREATHTAKING: Include a scenic view
- NEXT!: Have your character change visually after death
- DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: Make a trade that you'll regret

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In Gemsmith, your clients will need gemstones for their jewellery, and you'll have to go through the whole process: from picking a crystal to jewel setting!

Controls:

User interface (buttons, sliders) all via mouse

First person view:
- WASD To walk
- Space to jump
- Mouse to look and turn
- Mouse click to read, mine and use the machine
- Hold SHIFT to run
- ESC to release the mouse

Clients will make requests:

Of course you don't need to know all the crystals from the back of your head. There is a book full of pictures so you know what to look for in the mine:

As you find out what you need, time to go crystal hunting and mining:

But you can't take the book with you to the mine - you'll rely on your memory down there. Of course you can always go back and check again - there is no time limit.

With the right crystal on hands, time to work on it:

The gem design is inspired in real world gem cutting, but simpler and easier: adjust a profile by dragging the dots, pick a few options, and the profile will be cut in several sides. You can see a stone preview in real time as you tweak! 

If you did everything right, all is fine - time for next client! If you messed up, you waste the stone, but you always have time to go back to the mine and bring another one - the client will wait, don't worry.

The game has no end - apart from the mine being finite.

Music from SergePavkinMusic (Creative Commons, https://youtu.be/oEjNVO5QmOE, https://youtu.be/KzWR3FlAzec), HDRI from polyhaven, everything else is original.

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FUN FACT - Want to know how those crystals look like in real life?

Some of these stones can grow in more than one shape. In that case, I've picked the form which would make the game less confusing.

Also, "watermelon tourmaline" usually has green on the outside and pink on the inside, but you wouldn't be able to see this in the game, so I represented this with color bands (technically a "bicolor tourmaline"), but some suppliers do call them watermelon even if they are banded, so I'm not that far off.

And no, the stones below were not cut. They grow like this in nature. Really. All of them.

Images sources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz#/media/File:Pure_Quartz_at_Senckenberg_Natural_History_Museum.jpgcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amethyst#/media/File:Amethyst._Magaliesburg,_South_Africa.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citrine_1_(Russie).jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_emeralds#/media/File:Émeraude,_calcite_300.4.1981.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquamarine_(color)#/media/File:Aquamarine_P1000141.JPG
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourmaline#/media/File:Elbaite-Lepidolite-Quartz-gem7-x1a.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinel#/media/File:Calcite-Spinel-dtn37a.jpg
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spessartin#/media/Datei:Spessartine-132070.jpg
mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/MineralData?mineral=Garnet
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fluorite_crystal_polychrome.jpg
sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby#/media/File:Ruby_-_Winza,_Tanzania.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corundum-d06-89b.jpg