🚀 A fan game created while learning Godot Engine 4 🚀
- About
- How to play the game
- Technical Restrictions
- How is this Duck Hunt fan game different?!
- Resources used
- Disclaimer
- Third Party Licenses
I created this fan game as a first project in order to learn how to develop games in the 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. 😎
Here are some screenshots of the game:
I uploaded an HTML5-Export of the game to itch.io, so that you can play Duck Hunt Remastered in your web browser. 🕹️🌐
In addition, I uploaded binary exports of the game for Mac OS, Windows and Linux 🕹️💻 to itch.io as well.
I encountered the following technical restrictions while testing the game in the following setups:
| Export Type | OS | Web Browser | Playable? | Restrictions encountered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🍎 MacOS 14.1 | Safari 17.1 | ✅ | You have to click once so that audio output is enabled. |
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🍎 MacOS 14.1 | Chrome 119.0.6045.123 | ❌ | Chrome freezes! 😱 |
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🍎 MacOS 14.1 | Firefox 119.0.1 | ❌ | Game freezes while loading! 😱 |
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🐧 Ubuntu 22.04.3 in VMWare Fusion 13.5.0 | Firefox 119.0.1 | ✅ | Cursor change on mouse hover on duck not working |
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🪟 Windows 11 Enterprise Evaluation, Build 22621 in VMWare Fusion 13.5.0 | Internet Explorer Edge 119.0.2151.58 | ✅ | Cursor middle part not visible in embedded iframe, working though when maximized |
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🪟 Windows 11 Enterprise Evaluation, Build 22621 in VMWare Fusion 13.5.0 | Firefox 119.0.1 | ❌ | Error: The following features required to run Godot projects on the Web are missing: WebGL2 - Check web browser configuration and hardware support 😢 |
| 🌐 HTML5 on itch.io | 🪟 Windows 11 Enterprise Evaluation, Build 22621 in VMWare Fusion 13.5.0 | Chrome 119.0.6045.124 | ✅ | Cursor middle part not visible in embedded iframe, working though when maximized |
| 🐧 Linux binary | Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS in VMWare Fusion 13.5.0 | - | ✅ | Cursor change on mouse hover on duck not working |
| 🍎 MacOS binary | MacOS 14.1 | - | ✅ | - |
| 🪟 Windows binary | Windows 11 Enterprise Evaluation, Build 22621 in VMWare Fusion 13.5.0 | - | ✅ | - |
While this is no 100% guarantee that the game functions on your setup, it can give you a good indication.
Note: The SharedArrayBuffer support feature is activated on the game page on itch.io.
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 Engine version 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 Engine 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! 🤩
- The Godot Engine, Version 4.1.3 🤖
- This project is inspired by the great Duck Hunt in 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
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 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 Engine project
- 🐼 Make a donation to the WWF if you feel bad for shooting too many ducks 😜
See also https://godotengine.org/license/
This game uses Godot Engine, available under the following license:
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