🦆 Duck Hunt Remastered 🦆

🚀 A fan game created while learning Godot Engine 4 🚀

About

I created this fan game as a first project in order to learn how to develop games in Godot Engine 🤖. If you don't know the Duck Hunt game, you can read about the original NES game Duck Hunt on Wikipedia 📖.

You can also watch a YouTube playthrough video of Duck Hunt 🎥 to get the idea. Be sure to watch my demo video of Duck Hunt Remastered on YouTube 🎥 to see the game in action. 😎

How is this Duck Hunt fan game different ?!

Fair question indeed and what started out as a spontaneous personal learning project that would never get shown to anybody, soon became a real passion for me. ❤️

I did research other Duck Hunt fan games on itch.io, before deciding to upload my version of a Duck Hunt fan game. 🦆 

Here's the points I identified that my game does differently in many cases:

• 🕹️ Close to the original, but with a slight fresh touch, while sticking to the (S)NES style
• 😅 It's actually playable!
• 💪 Playable in web browser (via itch.io) and downloadable as native binary for MacOS, Linux & Windows
• 🧑‍🏫 GitHub repository including the source code of the game to learn from
• 🎥 Demo video & screenshots of game play
• 📖 Detailed Readme
• 🙈 Detailed comments and explanations in the source code, especially for pitfalls which some of cost me hours of debugging
• 🤖 Created and working in Godot 4.1.3
• 🎶 Background music & pond ambience sounds
• ☁️ Parallax clouds in the background
• 🦆 Ducks can have 3 colors: blue, brown, red
• 🐕 Dog picks up the correctly colored shot duck
• 🌾 Intro animation in which the dog jumps behind the grass
• 🎯 Animation for completing a round (shooting 10 ducks)
• 🦆 Ducks shot scream and then fall behind grass
• 🔫 Points appear where duck was shot
• 🚀 Duck flies out of grass from random X position
• 🤣 Dog laughs at you on game over
• 🦆 Duck bounces of window boundaries and top edge of grass
• 😏 The info boxes on the bottom part of the foreground are separate sprites which get scaled according to their content and on window resize (see Godot docs on NinePatchRect)
• ⏱️ A timer shows time elapsed (mm:ss) since game start
• 🎯 Local highscore stored in a text file in the user space for downloaded game versions
• 👤 Random player name generator for highscore to keep it clean from profanity 😜
  
• 🎯 Online highscore for game version played in web browser on itch.io

As this is my first game in Godot Engine, I'm really proud of how it turned out and what I was able to learn so far! 🤩

Resources used

• The Godot Engine, Version 4.1.3 🤖
• This project is inspired by the great Godot 4 tutorial video and example Duck Hunt project by 16BitDev ❤️
• The sprites for the animated ducks, animated dog, background & foreground are from Pik on spriters-resource.com. I did tweak them here and there a bit.
• The pixel clouds are from craftpix.net
• The Pixel Operator font is from fontlibrary.org
• The crosshairs cursor and regenerate icon are from kenney.nl
• All sound effects and music are from freesound.org
• I based the custom mouse cursor on the great tutorial by Jon Topielski. I had to make quite some changes though in order to get it to run in Godot Engine 4.
  
• The random player name generator is inspired by the random container names in Docker
• The online highscore is powered by the great SilentWolf backend services for Godot Engine

Disclaimer

This personal learning project is not related to or endorsed by Nintendo®️. Use this personal project as is and at your own risk to have fun while playing it and to learn how to develop games with the Godot Game Engine. 🤖 No warranty and no official support are provided for this fan game project.

As this is a fan game, I have no commercial intent whatsoever regarding this project.

If you still want thank me somehow:

• ⭐ Leave a star for the project's repository on GitHub
• 👍 Like & comment my demo video of Duck Hunt Remastered on YouTube
• 😎 Like & rate Duck Hunt Remastered on itch.io
• 🕹️ Buy something great from Nintendo️®️, the originators of Duck Hunt
• 💰 Make a donation to the Godot Project
• 🐼 Make a donation to the WWF if you feel bad for shooting too many ducks 😜

Technical Restrictions

Please see the Readme in the respective download file or the Readme in the game's GitHub repository.

Third Party Licenses

Please see https://godotengine.org/license/.