Add Nora and the Impossible Homework StoryQuest #1301

felixwalberg · 2025-10-06T22:32:32Z

Nora and the Nearly Impossible Homework follows a student through their struggles to perform at a high academic level. They deal with self-doubt, shame, and frustration. But, through determination and the support of a thoughtful friend, they are able to persevere and attain what they once thought wasn't possible. Each mini-game correlates with an emotion: first anger, then sadness, then happiness!

All art either created by @felixwalberg, or based on modifying existing artwork in the game.

Engineering:

Anger Level by @tovedetered
Stealth Level by @felixwalberg
Happiness Level by @felixwalberg

Game Design:

Core Gameplay & Mechanics by @felixwalberg and @tovedetered
Progression & Motivation by @felixwalberg and @tovedetered
Narrative & Storytelling by @aureliamarzipan, @felixwalberg and @tovedetered

Production and Management:

Code review by @felixwalberg and @tovedetered

To see the specific tasks where the Asana app for GitHub is being used, see below:
- https://app.asana.com/0/0/1211587602398296

Merging from Endless Repository into Verso

Mini game one tilemap

Remove the style it inherits from button by setting an empty stylebox to the normal and pressed states. And add a white background with transparency to the focus and hover states, so when navigating with the keys the player can see that the option is focused to toggle it.

And provide helper methods to get and set fullscreen.

Add a video section in the settings, with a check button that switch the display to fullscreen when toggled, and switch to windowed when not toggled.

This is a workaround for an upstream bug: godotengine/godot#100626 Connect the label size changed signal to a handler, that calls reset_size() in the PanelContainer Also, change the minimum size of the PanelContainer to the current size, and shrink center both the MarginContainer and the Label nodes. The offsets in the diff have changed automatically because of this. Fixes endlessm#608

Add the Aseprite source file and the exported spritesheet animations as PNG. There are 3 animations: idle, move and attack. There are 5 color variations: blue, gray, green, orange and red. And there is another variation: the character holding a torch, and the character without a torch.

The previous sprite frames used in the Lore quest was from the Tiny Swords asset pack, character Goblin with a torch. And the template was created based on it. The storyvore character is a bit different: - Has different amount of frames: - Attack has 6 frames. Goblin has 3. - Idle has 11 frames. Goblin has 7.

Use the ones without torch for the guards that move super fast and have small detection area (scaled to 0.1). Use the ones with torch for the ones that move slower and have large detection area (scale 1). Use a variety of colors for the storyvores.

One was added 2 months ago in 1d47e43 and the other one was added 1 monnth ago in 7f0ceff. Leave the one with better variable name.

Make it consistent with other setters in the project, wait for the node ready and set it from the _ready method, assuming that the SpriteFrames variable is not null because it's defined as an @onready. For this, do not use inline setter.

Unfortunately, the sprite frames for Storyvore and the guard template have animations of different length: - Attack: 6 and 5 frames - Idle: 11 and 8 frames The only animation with the same length is the walking animation (6 frames). This is because the template was based on a placeholder, not in the final character. So, match the frame by frame animations in AnimationPlayer to the longer animations (the 2 from Storyvore). The template will have the last frame still for a few frames. Add each frame to the AnimationPlayer timeline. Changing the animation and adding 2 frames makes the animation play but not at a consistent 10 FPS. This fixes a bug where the idle animation wasn't playing, because it was done by calling play in the SpriteFrames node directly, and at the same time the AnimationPlayer was calling stop(), which made the character be still in frame zero of the idle animation. Also: Remove waiting for 0.4 seconds before playing the attack animation. Otherwise it looks odd that the player defeated animation happens before it.

Fixes endlessm#692

The undo and reset are actions specific of the Sokoban puzzle.

Add an action to the Sokoban HUD to go directly to the next scene without completing the puzzle. This commit adds it inconditionally, but the next commit will add the logic to when the action is possible.

The rules engine can be configured to offer skip after the player spent a certain amount of seconds in the puzzle, defaulting to 2 minutes. Or after a number of retries, defaulting to 10 attempts. The Skip in the HUD becomes visible only when the player can skip the puzzle.

Each puzzle has a RuleEngine node and a SokobanHUD node. Connect the skip_enabled signal of each RuleEngine node to the display_skip() function of the SokobanHUD node.

To me A (bottom button, PlayStation X) feels more like the button for a "normal" action, where my finger rests by default, while skipping is more exceptional. I think Y (top button, PS triangle) feels better for this action in some hard-to-explain way.

Png tiles touchup

Sync from Endless Threadbare repository

I set up a clone with two remotes: $ git remote -v VERSO-UVM git@github.com:VERSO-UVM/threadbare.git (fetch) VERSO-UVM git@github.com:VERSO-UVM/threadbare.git (push) upstream git@github.com:endlessm/threadbare.git (fetch) upstream git@github.com:endlessm/threadbare.git (push) I looked at the files changed between the two: $ git diff --stat upstream/main...VERSO-UVM/main I semi-manually pruned the list to only include files that already existed upstream. Then I used `git merge-base` to find the common ancestor commit of upstream/main and VERSO-UVM/main: this is where they branched from each other, and used it as input to `git restore` to restore the files as of that commit: $ git restore --source=$(git merge-base upstream/main VERSO-UVM/main) \ .github/CODEOWNERS \ .github/workflows/export.yml \ .pre-commit-config.yaml \ assets/first_party/logo/threadbare-logo.png.license \ project.godot \ scenes/eternal_loom_sokoban/components/hud/sokoban_hud.tscn \ scenes/game_elements/characters/enemies/guard/components/guard.gd \ scenes/game_elements/props/fixed_size_label/fixed_size_label.tscn \ scenes/game_elements/props/sequence_puzzle_hint_sign/sequence_puzzle_hint_sign.tscn \ scenes/globals/settings/settings.gd \ scenes/menus/options/components/video_settings.tscn \ scenes/quests/lore_quests/quest_001/3_stealth_level/stealth_level.tscn \ scenes/ui_elements/components/theme.tres

Revert changes to upstream files

Moved assets into verso directory

github-actions · 2025-10-07T07:24:26Z

Test build no longer available.

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:14:16Z

scenes/quests/story_quests/verso/0_verso_intro/verso_intro_components/verso_Replace image.png

You can delete this unused file I think.

wjt

This was an easy PR to review - thank you for the care you and your colleagues have taken to organise this quest.

I played through the quest - great ideas, I love the adaptations of the main game artwork to suit your story.

I have a few bits of feedback but nothing too large:

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:37:08Z

scenes/quests/story_quests/verso/3_verso_sequence_puzzle_happiness/verso_sign.png

I think this file is unused and could be deleted.

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:38:02Z

scenes/quests/story_quests/verso/1_verso_combat_anger/defeat_enemy.gd

Interesting adaptation of the filling game!

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:39:10Z

...ory_quests/verso/1_verso_combat_anger/verso_combat_components/verso_target_spriteframes.tres

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+[gd_resource type="SpriteFrames" load_steps=6 format=3 uid="uid://cw0d60uuy2b8"]
+
+[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://do4tec8oedbcx" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_target.png" id="1_s8lii"]


This references the image in the template folder directly. I think you should either:

Delete verso_target.png (since it is unused); or

Update this to refer to verso_target.png

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:39:19Z

...quests/verso/1_verso_combat_anger/verso_combat_components/verso_projectile_spriteframes.tres

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+[gd_resource type="SpriteFrames" load_steps=3 format=3 uid="uid://dqrslr3weg0lt"]
+
+[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://cagyo41xspko" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_projectile.png" id="1_jg0bk"]


wjt · 2025-10-07T10:39:26Z

...ts/story_quests/verso/1_verso_combat_anger/verso_combat_components/verso_throwing_enemy.tres

+[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://cd2ivq0ll3lt0" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_throwing_enemy_attack.png" id="1_whccx"]
+[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://cb3lim37pj3by" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_throwing_enemy_defeated.png" id="2_b3jhe"]
+[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://dlyqia7fiovw1" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_throwing_enemy_idle.png" id="3_mub68"]
+[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://ddsr4nuoutyif" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_throwing_enemy_walk.png" id="4_yujlm"]


wjt · 2025-10-07T10:44:20Z

scenes/game_elements/props/decoration/sharpener/pencil_sharpener.tscn

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:44:25Z

scenes/game_elements/props/decoration/teacher_desk/teacher_desk.tscn

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:46:05Z

...sts/story_quests/verso/1_verso_combat_anger/verso_combat_components/throwing_enemy_health.gd

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+@tool


Suggested change

@tool

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: The Threadbare Authors

# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0

@tool

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:46:25Z

scenes/quests/story_quests/verso/1_verso_combat_anger/defeat_enemy.gd

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+extends Node


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extends Node

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: The Threadbare Authors

# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0

extends Node

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:54:24Z

scenes/quests/story_quests/verso/verso_player_components/verso_player.tres

+"texture": SubResource("AtlasTexture_bsni3")
+}],
+"loop": true,
+"name": &"attack_01",


In the combat game, the repel action doesn't work. This is a bug in some backwards-compatibility code in the shared player scene - we changed the name of the animation corresponding to repelling a projectile. You can fix it by renaming this animation:

Suggested change

"name": &"attack_01",

"name": &"attack_02",

I filed #1305 about the bug in the player scene.

wjt · 2025-10-07T10:55:40Z

Oh, I also noticed that you have many files named .png.png:

It's harmless but you could rename these.

PR changes: renamed/moved assets, removed unused assets/files

Adding missing dependencies for PR

Deleting extra assets

Deleted last scene assets from global directory

wjt

Nice work!

wjt · 2025-10-08T14:35:35Z

I've invited the 3 creators of this StoryQuest to a team in our GitHub organisation; joining it will give you the ability to push branches to this repo. I'll mark that team as co-maintainers of this quest so that you can merge your own PRs targeting this quest. No obligation to accept but we'd love to have you as continuing contributors to this quest or the wider game if you are interested!

manuq · 2025-10-08T14:57:03Z

@aureliamarzipan, @felixwalberg, @tovedetered congratulations!

wjt · 2025-10-08T16:20:08Z

FYI I opened #1315 to fix some issues (mostly one introduced by a parallel change, not in this PR), and filed #1316 and #1317 for some possible future improvements to the quest.

felixwalberg and others added 30 commits June 3, 2025 10:44

Intro/Outro: duplicated and renamed files

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Intro/Outro: duplicated and renamed files

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Intro/Outro: reordered scene files according to GDD

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Add custom intro and outro dialogue

de712b6

Custom Tilemaps for mini-game one scenes

5fcbcdd

Customize tilemaps for mini-game one scene

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Add pencil sharpener decoration to mini-game one scene

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Updated pencil sharpener image art for mini-game-one

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Merge pull request #45 from endlessm/main

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Merging from Endless Repository into Verso

Merge branch 'endlessm:main' into storyquest-verso

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Modified tilemap mini-game-one and added collisions to decorations

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Merge pull request #44 from VERSO-UVM/mini-game-one-tilemap

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Mini game one tilemap

Settings: Store window mode

c579ff8

And provide helper methods to get and set fullscreen.

Options: Add option to turn fullscreen on / off

751e84d

Add a video section in the settings, with a check button that switch the display to fullscreen when toggled, and switch to windowed when not toggled.

Guard: Remove duplicate variable of AnimatedSprite2D

e793eae

One was added 2 months ago in 1d47e43 and the other one was added 1 monnth ago in 7f0ceff. Leave the one with better variable name.

Guard: Improve SpriteFrames setter

0339013

Make it consistent with other setters in the project, wait for the node ready and set it from the _ready method, assuming that the SpriteFrames variable is not null because it's defined as an @onready. For this, do not use inline setter.

Template: Hint that it should be used in the editor

26750b4

Fixes endlessm#692

Sokoban: Add prefix to current actions

524cee9

The undo and reset are actions specific of the Sokoban puzzle.

Sokoban: Add skip action

93bce56

Add an action to the Sokoban HUD to go directly to the next scene without completing the puzzle. This commit adds it inconditionally, but the next commit will add the logic to when the action is possible.

Sokoban: Connect all puzzles to skip

82c5a7f

Each puzzle has a RuleEngine node and a SokobanHUD node. Connect the skip_enabled signal of each RuleEngine node to the display_skip() function of the SokobanHUD node.

Custom Tilemaps for mini-game one scenes

cf3bcfc

Customize tilemaps for mini-game one scene

823dd2d

felixwalberg and others added 11 commits September 19, 2025 11:37

Merge branch 'endlessm-main' into png-tiles-touchup

22568d9

Merge pull request #68 from VERSO-UVM/png-tiles-touchup

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Png tiles touchup

Merge branch 'endlessm:main' into endlessm-main

74d1ffe

New pngs

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Merge pull request #69 from VERSO-UVM/endlessm-main

6d54f59

Sync from Endless Threadbare repository

Merge pull request #71 from endlessm/verso-revert-upstream-changes

bfe7c08

Revert changes to upstream files

Moved assets into verso directory

e427e97

Changed camera zoom for mini-games

c6fc243

Update sequence_puzzle_hint_sign.tscn

1c68dca

Merge pull request #72 from VERSO-UVM/moving-assets-to-verso

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Moved assets into verso directory

felixwalberg requested a review from a team as a code owner October 6, 2025 22:32

wjt reviewed Oct 7, 2025

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felixwalberg and others added 8 commits October 7, 2025 20:26

PR changes: renamed/moved assets, removed unused assets/files

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Merge pull request #73 from VERSO-UVM/fixing-pr-assets

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PR changes: renamed/moved assets, removed unused assets/files

Adding missing dependencies for PR

696b728

Merge pull request #74 from VERSO-UVM/fixing-pr-assets

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Adding missing dependencies for PR

Deleting extra assets

f55dfff

Merge pull request #75 from VERSO-UVM/fixing-pr-assets

046fef4

Deleting extra assets

Deleted last scene assets from global directory

ec4dafa

Merge pull request #76 from VERSO-UVM/fixing-pr-assets

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Deleted last scene assets from global directory

wjt approved these changes Oct 8, 2025

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wjt merged commit 5488e5e into endlessm:main Oct 8, 2025
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wjt added the StoryQuest New StoryQuests or updates to existing ones label Oct 8, 2025

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		[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://do4tec8oedbcx" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_target.png" id="1_s8lii"]

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		[gd_resource type="SpriteFrames" load_steps=3 format=3 uid="uid://dqrslr3weg0lt"]

		[ext_resource type="Texture2D" uid="uid://cagyo41xspko" path="res://scenes/quests/story_quests/template/2_template_combat/template_combat_components/template_projectile.png" id="1_jg0bk"]

-@tool
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: The Threadbare Authors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+@tool

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