Godot Project Zero: A Dark Forest

Uses Godot 4.4 game engine.

Inspired by A Dark Room game, the Dark Forest is an incremental experimental minimalistic idle game project.

Started as my first game project to learn Godot, now a community project with 10+ contributors!

THE GAME:

• PLAY ON Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3314970/A_Dark_Forest/
• PLAY ON Itch: https://tinytakinteller.itch.io/the-best-game-ever

CONTRIBUTE:

• A) Enhancements by checking out "Issues" section on Github
• B) Content, Mechanics, Design by joining Discord (add tiny_takin_teller for invites)
• C) ??? by forking the project (code is MIT licensed, assets are licensed by respective contributors)

Milestones

• 29/04/2024 [prototype.week.01] First version shared on Itch 👀
• 24/06/2024 [prototype.week.09] Created Discord & Trello for the community ❤️
• 26/08/2024 [prototype.week.18] Project featured on front page of Itch "New & Popular" 🚀
• 09/09/2024 [prototype.week.20] Discontinuing weekly updates going forward. ⚰️
• 07/10/2024 [prototype.release.1.0] Added final boss fight, a short minigame ending. ⭐
• 05/01/2025 [prototype.release.1.1] Localization Update for French and Chinese (SC). 🌎
• 08/01/2025 [prototype.release.1.2] Localization Update for Portuguese (Brazilian). 🌎
• 11/01/2025 [prototype.release.1.3] Soulstone Patch: Added 15th Charm to fix endgame grind. ⚡
• 11/02/2025 [prototype.release.1.4] The Art Update 🎨 & The Future 🔮 & Polish Localization 🌍
• 06/06/2025 [prototype.release.1.4.4] Steam Demo Release & Next Fest 2025
• 12/06/2025 [prototype.release.1.4.5] Localization Update for Thai 🌎
• 04/05/2026 [prototype.release.1.4.6] Localization Update for Spanish 🌎

Overview

Gather Resources...

Generate Passive Resources...

Fight Ancient Colossals...

And More...

Development setup

Setup the GDScript Toolkit

This project uses the Format on Save and gdLinter plugins. Both of these depend on the GDScript Toolkit python package being installed. You can install this dependency globally or in a virtual environment.

To install globally

This is the standard way described in the documentation of the package

pip3 install "gdtoolkit==4.*"

To install in a virtual environment

If you're on Windows, this project has some custom code in the "Format on Save" and "gdLinter" plugins to make it work with a venv/ directory in the root of the project.

cd <path/to/this/project>
python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate

pip3 install "gdtoolkit==4.*"

Remarks

1. The venv/ directory is in the .gitignore, so won't be committed to git
2. Because of the custom code, the venv integration will break when we update the plugins