MORSE V1

Morse is a game made for the TriJam #256 (3 hours to code a game) with the subject "Only 3" !

How to win ? 

• You just have to find the more Morse Code as U can. Each time, you succeed, a new letter is provided to U... 
• One error and the game is over ! 

How to play ? 

You just have to press the "3-key" of your keyboard to recreate the morse code of the letter above. 

• a short press : a dot
• a longer press : a dash
• a longest press : a "blank"... 

Playable in mobile : but the "touch screen" is less precise than the 3-key.

To help during while you're pressing the "3-key", the pattern illustrated the look of dot / dash or blank.

How about the game conception  :

I follow one of my first idea : a game where the player can only use the 3-Key. I thought it will be fun to try to find some the mecanism to drive some fun with only one key. With one key, you only can estimate the duration so it made me think about the morse code. 

As 3 hours is really short to create a game ( for me !). I made some choices to realise this game :

I choose : 

• to realise only very very simple and minimalist assets. 
  With only 3 colors : Pink / blue / Grey
• to deal with the "one key constraint" :
  • everything as to be the more automatically as it's possible (the active digit, the validation of the try, the "play again"....)
  • to track the most efficiently the duration of the pressing (short, long , very long)
• to keep the game very simple. 

The features, I will code later (after the ending of the jam) : 

• Nourrish the complete alphabet (today, it's only limited to letter from A to H)
• A bonus scoring each  "3 letters" 
• A 3s timer to motivate the player to speed his answer. Each good response, will boost the timer....  
• An audio and  light feeadback of the code morse
• Some juicing as particules effect, and discret polish animation... 

Crédits & Time spending : 

• Sound & Font : kenvector_future.ttf created by Kenney (https://kenney.nl/)
• Assets : created by ... me  [ estimate time : 20 /30 min max on Illustrator] 
• Coding : Godot 4   [ estimate time : about 4,5 H ] 

Shame on me !! I spend more time than the gam jam allowed but, as I rediscover Godot (never used the version 4 of Godot before, and even the itchio import give me somes puzzles... ;-|  ) and that I had my head into my project, I was quite happy to progress so much with this game. So anyway, I submit my project even if I know I am out of the "game". It's a matter to honorate this game jam and  to recolt  some comments and advices as well.   

Next time, I will try to code faster and respect the deal ... will see... what a suspens ! Best climax ever ;-)