Sundog

Secret Santa Game Jam 2025 entry, for Mothlanturn

Made in Construct 3 by VeryLukely, music made in Beepbox.co

Probably best to use full screen!

Controls

A and D to move left and right

W to jump, W again to double jump

Shift, Q, or Spacebar to run (at expense of jump height)

Retrospective

Inspired by UFO 50 (a game mentioned in the letter that I also love) I decided to go for kind of a cross of Mooncat and Paint Chase. Hence the name Sundog, although the final control scheme I went with isn't too weird, so the name doesn't fit super well anymore. I still think it's funny.

Sorry that I couldn't work in any marine life into the game, I was really excited about that element of the letter originally. If I had more time I would have made the game in three acts with the three animals mentioned in the letter.

Since the game has no actual conflict (I briefly considered having enemies that re-monochrome tiles but I didn't have any good ideas for what they would be), going off a really interesting line in the listener letter about disharmony, I thought it would be interesting to make the conflict take place in the music of the game instead. Which is why a distortion instrument comes in and kind of ruins the whole vibe. Is that an idea I'm skilled enough to pull off? Probably not, but I enjoyed trying!

As a reward for reading this far here's the beepbox track used in the game, you have my permission to steal or modify it or whatever: https://is.gd/jPEvy6