My Game Off 2021 entry.
The Earth is under invasion. A fleet of giant bugs, bacteria, and viruses are outside of the planet.
In the meantime, Diddi was developing a secret spacecraft. When his friends told him of the invasion, Diddi decided to visit the brilliant Dr. Chuck (a scientist, and also an old friend of Diddi). The doctor gave him the L1-F3 experimental serum, that kills anything alive. That should destroy those bugs...
To ensure that those bugs will be destroyed, Diddi modified his spacecraft to convert it into a starfighter that energizes the serum and shoot it. Then, he named the starfighter Willpower. Suddendly, the Willpower goes outside of the planet, to start the fight...
Since the GameOff 2021 event is hosted by itch.io, the distributions are available there. The source code lives in this GitHub repository, but the stable distributions are available at itch.io.
The itch.io page for my game is here: https://diddileija.itch.io/diddi-and-the-bugs.
Once you are there, read the installation instructions and find the right distribution for you. If you don't find what you expected, feel free to open an issue on GitHub (or comment in the itch.io page).
If you will use Python get sure to have Python >= 3.8.
New since 2.0.0.
If you have a local clone of this repo, you can build the zipped distributions (those that we distribute on itch.io),
If you have Nox and the Python required version (see above), run nox -s package. It will run a lot
of commands to generate the source zip, the Pyxel executable and the Windows executable (if running under Windows). The final
contents will be found on a dist folder 1.
Try out the latest dist: the Pyxel web version! You'll find this in the html_dist format of the game on itch.io,
along with the source, the Pyxel-packaged and Windows-only versions.
You can also see the legacy, nightly web version (hosted online) here.
Use the energized serum to destroy 200 bugs and win! In the meantime, you can earn extra points by destroying space trash. Try to get all the points as you can!
Read the game guide for more information (and maybe a few hints!).
This game is made using Pyxel, a Python tool for retro games. The executables are uploaded to the itch.io page manually each time a tag (release) is published here.
Read this contributing guidelines for full details.
There's a Discord server (officially named DiddiLeija's Server) where you can ask and share stuff related to Diddi and The Bugs! Wanna join? https://discord.gg/DfrHxT9ENy
We have a wiki to keep some tips, records, and that stuff. It can be found at the GitHub repo's wiki.
Footnotes
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Contributor's advice: This folder is ignored by Git, so it won't be shown on GitHub. ↩