About one year after my last game jam I finally had the desire to do another one. The theme for the winter’s buddy up jam was “Renewal“. My adult brain went straight to mortgages and paperwork but after working through a couple of ideas I decided to make a game where you build weapons out of garbage.

The gameplay consists of picking up weapon parts and placing them on a table then performing a skill check to build the weapon out of the items. Then you could sell the weapon and the price would vary depending on the parts used and how well the skill check was performed.

A weapon contains 4 different parts: pommel, handle, guard, ouchy bit. At minimum a weapon must have a handle and ouchy bit the rest of the parts were optional.

I used the same kind of skill check from the game Dead by Daylight. The quality of the weapon would decrease the further away from the perfect zone the player landed in. I created the UI for the skill check with UI toolkit. I didn’t have a lot of experience with this new UI system so this was a great learning experience.

You can play it in your browser here: https://spacecastle.itch.io/goblinsmith
Jam link: https://itch.io/jam/buddy-up-jam-winter-2024/rate/2580841