North of Goodtown

North of Goodtown is a browser game created for GGJ 2024

Year: January 2024
Language: PHP, jQuery, GScript
Libraries/Frameworks: CodeIgniter 3, Godot

Over the weekend of the event I wanted to make another pet browser game, so I made a game about having to adopt a generally unwanted pet and putting him through various experiences.

Game data was local cookie-based

Players must first pick a pet (they cannot afford anything other than Gorb)

Once Gorb is adopted, the player may take part is numerous activities, such as:

Going through the garbage dump to find items to decorate Gorb's room with

Going to the store

Gaining currency by playing games or working

Battle Arena

Playing carnival game

The game was a HTML5 embed compiled by Godot
Similar to ratsnet, I was able to get it to send a web request to submit the score
Though there were no user accounts I still wanted to avoid being able to re-send network requests to spam scores so I gave them unique match IDs to only affect unique IDs. But if you knew that then you can just spam it by sending random match IDs :D

There is also a room decoration feature to drag-and-drop place collected items

It was fun to have made the game, game jams are always a cool way to quickly create a little world and to make it interactable.
I'd like to keep exploring browser pet games for future game jams.