Bootloader

A submission for the GMTK 2023 Game Jam.

You play as the filesystem of a game, where you need to go around a computer's hard drive and load parts of the game for the player.

I didn't have time to go too far into the graphics / level design. I spent most of it tweaking physics and fixing bugs.

Might update later. Depends on how I feel.

Potential ways of expanding on the idea (aka Ideas I had while developing I didn't have time to implement):

• Have a "Player patience meter", If nothing is loaded after some time then the "player" will do something other than looking at the game, so chat messages might show up in the level as an obstacle to avoid; or the "player" clicks a few times, so it might spawn ghosts that chase the players down Mario Galaxy cosmic clone style.
• Assets that load could show up in the level. If you load the trees, for example, then trees would pop up in the level that you could use as a ramp to take a shortcut.
• Certain nuggets of code could have dependencies, and collecting them in the wrong order could give some funky effects. Like collecting sprint then double jump would let you double sprint until you got jump.
• You might need to pick up certain parts of code to assemble a part. For example, if you need to load trees, you'd need to get the tree's mesh, collision data, materials and placement data, and this would be reflected in the level somehow.