Game setup

When you first start your project, you are greeted with the Setup popup, where you can define the base parameters of your game.

Using this window will take care of configuring Godot project with a coherent preset of parameters so that your game looks good in all situations.
Also, it will preconfigure the Game User Interface (GUI) of your choice, so that you don't have to.

Set game resolution

The Native game resolution (1) is the actual resolution of your assets (i.e. background). This resolution will be scaled up or down to match the actual display resolution (see below). Usually, you want to set this to the size of a full-game background that fills the entire "screen".

For example, if you plan to create a retro-vibes pixel-art adventure game like the early ones by Sierra or LucasArts, you may want to keep this resolution down to 320x200, which was the native resolution of VGA displays back then.
If you want to create a high-res game like the modern Deponia series, with beautifully painted art, you may want to bring this up to 1920x1080, which is a modern Full-HD display resolution.

Some prefer not to play adventure games in full-screen so, once you've set the native resolution for your game, you may use the Playing window resolution (2) values to set the size your game will have when played in windowed mode. For low-res games, you want to provide a larger window than the native resolution, or on most modern displays, it will be very tiny.

Finally, the Game type (3) select box will set a bunch of project settings that are better kept coherent, from sprite importing to scaling algorithms, etc. The options are:

• Custom: This does nothing, leaving all the settings to the developer. 2D: Choose this for high-res games, that may benefit from anti-aliasing when scaled up or down. Pixel: Choose this for low-res and pixel-art games, so that your graphics remain crisp when scaled up or down.

Select game GUI

Since version 2.0, Popochiu comes with a preset of different GUI templates, and in the next version, it will provide a set of features to create your own custom one.
Preset GUI templates will contain all the assets and logic thay you need to mimic some of the most common game interfaces of the Adventure genre.

In the GUI Template (4) section of the Setup popup, you can click on a GUI icon to select which template to apply:

• 9 Verbs: inspired by the original SCUMM interface, first seen in Maniac Mansion, but getting its final form with Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, and used by many games up to the recent Thimbleweed Park.
• Sierra: inspired by the early 90s SCI interface, common to King's Quest and Space Quest series. It took many forms, always specific to Sierra games. Very useful for projects that want to bring back that historical interaction patterns.
• SimpleClick: the most basic and straightforward interface for an Adventure Game, common to many modern titles like Deponia - left-click to walk and interact, right-click to examine. This version is influenced by early PowerHoof productions.