Get The Hat! (free template)

Keyboard controls

Move with WASD, aim with mouse or IJKL.

Remove hat with Q, restart with R, pause with P, toggle full screen with F.

Gamepad controls

Move with left stick, aim with right stick, fire with any trigger,.

Remove hat with X/Y, restart with back/view, pause with start/menu.

What is this?

UPDATE: I went back to this project in May 2025, gave it a big refactor, code style update, replaced player movement with a physics based one with acceleration and deceleration, and made a bunch of barely noticeable changes here and there. You can download the Construct 3 project file for both the old jam version (build 7) and the updated one (build 8) and use it as a template if you want (under MIT license).

I started making this project for The Captain Coder's Learn You A Game Jam 2024, live on stream, kinda like a tutorial. I couldn't finish it before the deadline, but here it is.

I streamed the development of the first seven builds (~14 hours):

• Part 1: player movement  & aiming
• Part 2: obstacles, smooth camera, basic weapon, player health
• Part 3: autotiling walls, enemies
• Part 4: hats / different weapons, more enemies

If you're interested in this sort of thing, you can follow me on Twitch!

I used assets by the amazing 0x72, available under CC0 license.