Go Go Gopher

A little platformer game written in Go.

The game is based on the Ebiten game engine by Hajime Hoshi.

Compile the game

go genereate ./...
go build -o gogogopher .

Windows specialities

To embed the usual resources for Windows executables, github.com/tc-hib/go-winres is used. The tool will create syso files to be used by go build

go-winres make --product-version=latest --file-version=latest
go genereate ./...
go build -o gogogopher.exe .

Attributions, Kudos and licensed material

The Go Gopher by Renee French is licenced under CC BY 3.0

You may encounter characters with similarities to the following:

• The PHP Elephpant by Vincent Pontier is licenced under GNU GPL
• The Java Duke was open sourced by Sun under the New BSD license.
• The Rust Ferris by Karen Rustad Tölva is dedicated to public domain under CC0
• The Lisp Alien by Conrad Barski is free to any usage

Big shoutout at Hajime Hoshi for Ebiten and SolarLune for the collision library reslov which are both easy and fun to work with.

Fonts

See resources/embed/fonts

Name	File	Author/Attribution	Licence	Source
Press Start 2P	pressstart2p.ttf	Cody "CodeMan38" Boisclair	OFL	https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Press+Start+2P

Graphics

See resources/embed/images

Name	File	Author/Attribution	Licence	Source
Gopher Sprite	gopher-sprite.png	Egon Elbre		https://github.com/egonelbre/gophers
Gopher Emojis	gopher-emojis.png	Egon Elbre		https://github.com/egonelbre/gophers
Elephpant	elephpant.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Alien Elephpant	alien_elephpant.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Python	python.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Alien Python	alien_python.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
The Duke	duke.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Alien Duke	alien_duke.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Ferris	ferris.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Alien Ferris	alien_ferris.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Alien	alien.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Key	key.png, key-sprite.png	Sebastian Niesen		made for this game
Coin	coin.png	Puddin		https://opengameart.org/content/rotating-coin
Gopher Plains	plains.png	aekiro		https://opengameart.org/content/forest-tileset-0
The Forest	forest.png	Tio Aimar		https://opengameart.org/content/2d-platformer-forest-pack

Music

See resources/embed/music

Name	File	Author/Attribution	Licence	Source
"A Little Journey"	a_little_journey.ogg	shiru8bit		https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-chiptune-a-little-journey
"Birthday Cake"	Birthday_Cake.ogg	composed, performed, mixed and mastered by Viktor Kraus		https://opengameart.org/content/birthday-cake
"Funny Chase"	Funny_Chase.ogg	wyver9		https://opengameart.org/content/funny-chase-8-bit-chiptune
"Green Hills"	GreenHills.ogg	Igor Gundarev		https://opengameart.org/content/green-hills
"Platform"	Platform.ogg	Roald Strauss, IndieGameMusic.com	free	https://www.indiegamemusic.com/viewtrack.php?id=1331
"Proper Summer"	proper_summer.ogg	shiru8bit		https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-chiptune-proper-summer
"Retro No Hope"	Retro_No_hope.ogg	Music by Cleyton Kauffman - https://soundcloud.com/cleytonkauffman		https://opengameart.org/content/game-over-theme
"Spring Thing"	spring_thing.ogg	shiru8bit		https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-chiptune-spring-thing
"Theme Song"	Theme_Song_full.ogg	nene		https://opengameart.org/content/theme-song-8-bit
"Under the sun"	under_the_sun.ogg	shiru8bit		https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-chiptune-under-the-sun
"Victory"	Victory.ogg	celestialghost8		https://opengameart.org/content/victory

Sounds

See resources/embed/sounds

Name	File	Author/Attribution	Licence	Source
Coin	coin9.ogg	Luke.RUSTLTD		https://opengameart.org/content/10-8bit-coin-sounds
Hurt	hurt.ogg	Baŝto		https://opengameart.org/content/nes-sounds
Jump	jump22.ogg	Jesús Lastra		https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-jump-1
Life Pickup	powerup02.ogg	Jesús Lastra		https://opengameart.org/content/8-bit-powerup-1