Godspeed

One schoolbus, one ticking bomb, only one way to- forward. Godspeed.

Godspeed is a simple game for Playdate, inspired by the movie Speed. You play as a bus, speding down a highway full of obstacles, and if you slow down, or crash too much, the bomb explodes.

Released on itch.io. Check out gameplay here.

Requirements

• Playdate SDK

Running

Building From Source

• Set PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH Environment Variable

• Run:

  pdc source/ out/godspeed.pdx

• Either play in the Simulator, or in your Playdate by sideloading.

Prebuilt Binary

• Download the latest release.
• Either play in the Simulator, or in your Playdate by sideloading.

How to Play

Every obstacle you hit, you slow down. If you don't mash A hard enough, you slow down. If you slow down too much, or hit obstacles thrice, you explode! How far can you go?

• ↑ to move up one lane
• ↓ to move down one lane
• Mash A to speed up
• Press B to restart the game after exploding

Licenses

First Party Code & Assets

• All the code, that is, every lua file under the source/ folder, except source/lib was created by me, and is licensed under the MIT license.
• All the assets, that is, every file under the source/assets/ folders, except source/assets/fonts and source/assets/sounds was created by me, are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Third Party Libraries & Assets

• AnimatedSprite by Whitebrim (source/lib/AnimatedSprite.lua) is licensed under the MIT license.
• Car engine sound effect by MarlonHJ (source/sounds/engine.wav) is licensed under the CC0 license.
• Car skidding sound effect by martian (source/sounds/skid.wav) is licensed under the CC0 license.
• Crash crash sound effect by Eponn (source/sounds/crash.wav) is licensed under the CC0 license.
• Explosion sound effect by tommccann (source/sounds/explosion.wav) is licensed under the CC0 license.
• Bomb beep sound effect by snakebarney (source/sounds/beep-fast.wav and source/sounds/beep-fast.wav) is licensed under the CC0 license.

Misc

• All the sprites and images were created using Aseprite.
• The theme song was created using Ableton Live.