CLANG (2025 Prototype)

CLANG (not to be confused with the C compiler) was a little project I was working on in early 2025. It was going to be a metroidvania about a robot escaping a massive eastern European industrial complex. You would find parts and drivers from other robots that would improve your mobility. In this video, you can see both a weapon (the red rod thing) and a grappling hook. This project unfortunately didn't really stick around for long, I wasn't really a fan of how it was turning out. I opted to just drop it and move onto other things. I may attempt this idea again in the future

Cool footnotes about this one:
Wacky fluid movement
Cool verlet integration implementation
Has its own level format and editor
Uses OpenMPT for music playback

Something unique about this project was the focus on creating my own level format and editor. CLANG doesn't use a traditional tile system, but instead has its levels comprised of colored polygons. I made the infrastructure because I wanted to streamline content production, and creating my own tools meant I could make my own simple frontend for this process instead of doing it within the Godot editor. I had also wanted to segregate the program and data so that I could publish the program's source under GPL, while not including the game's content as I initially planned to sell this game when it was finished.

This is one of my few truly solo endeavors, though I admittedly bounced ideas off of a few friends. I don't really like working on solo projects because I'm not really great at making game content. I can do programming and design fairly well, but I don't really like creating assets or levels or any of that. I like putting systems together; programming and problem solving is just my favorite part of the process. I guess it kinda shows with how this project looks; I didn't spend any time working on assets, so everything is very crude looking

I dont own the music used in this video

Github: https://github.com/jeffinitup