Minigame Madness is a microgame project I started in November of 2020 to help teach myself the Godot engine and some basic principles of design. The original goal was to have twenty minigames finished by the end of 2020, but due to certain inevitable delays that got pushed back.
Minigame Madness is designed for web platforms but can also be exported for desktop environments including Windows, MacOS, Linux, and maybe more! See the Compiling section for more details.
The game is currently in a prerelease state with 14 fully playable minigames.
Minigame Madness is mostly public domain software. I emphasize "mostly" because the game contains exactly one non-public-domain asset: the song "Skippitybop" by Spadezer, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Additionally, even though Minigame Madness itself is in the public domain, compiled binaries are subject to the Godot Engine license, because the game runs in the Godot engine.
In spite of this, all of the work done by me on Minigame Madness will remain fully in the public domain. Further information on other assets used in the game can be found on the Credits screen in-game.
As of version 0.12.2-alpha, the game will display a comprehensive list of third-party licenses to which any particular copy of Minigame Madness is subject in the "Legal Stuff" menu in-game.
Trying to narrow down a bug? You can access a debug menu by entering the Konami Code on the main menu: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
Alternatively, you can start the game in debug mode for a specific minigame using the following command-line option:
--debug-minigame <id_num>Replace <id_num> with a numeric identifier indicating which minigame you want
to test. If you don't enter an ID number, the game will print out a list for
you.
Good for you! Go ahead and let me know by leaving an Issue on Minigame Madness's GitHub page. Be sure to include details like the game's version number (displayed in the lower-left when you start the game), what system you're running it on, and which minigame you encountered the bug on. Oh, and describe the bug in detail, too. That step is pretty important.
To my knowledge, the Godot Engine currently allows exports of projects for
HTML5, Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android, and iOS. Wikipedia and a distant
memory suggests that it also supports FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, but for
the life of me I can't find export templates for those. Your mileage may
vary.
Minigame Madness was originally designed for the web and desktops, but if you
want to try and get it working on a smart phone you be my guest.
The next step is to download a copy of the Godot Engine. You can acquire
Godot from their website or grab the source code right here on GitHub. Just
make sure that you're downloading Godot 3 – at least 3.5-stable –
rather than Godot 4, as Minigame Madness was made on Godot 3.5. The version
you're looking for might be referred to on the website as an LTS version.
If you choose to compile your own version of the
Godot Engine, you might consider using the profile included in custom.py to
remove any modules that aren't needed to export a Minigame Madness binary.
After you've acquired Godot, it's a simple matter of importing the project by pointing the project manager to the project file in the directory you copied this repository to and finally exporting a binary for your chosen system. The Godot documentation has exceptionally well-written tutorials that will show you how to do this.
NOTE: While exporting a copy of Minigame Madness, you should go into the Resources tab on the export screen and find the text box labelled "Filters to export non-resource files/folders" and type "COPYRIGHT.txt" (without the quotes) into this box. This will export Minigame Madness's licensing information into the binary file you end up with, so that the game will be able to display the licenses for Minigame Madness's various components.