This is a puzzle game of exploration, survival, and rescue. Deeply inspired by the wonderful 1991 Amiga title Lemmings and other games from my childhood. On the surface, you'll guide the intrepid (yet strangely incompetent) Yups through layer after layer of increasingly difficult obstacles and inhospitable terrain.
Beneath the surface lies a commentary on sacrifice, friendship, and resilience.
Beneath that is a creamy caramel centre.
The game will be available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. I'd love to distribute on mobile too, if I can find a way to do that without too much extra pain. It might make a rather good tablet game.
Most, if not all development of the game is streamed live on Twitch and YouTube. Any questions can be fielded in stream chat, on Discord or here in issues or discussions.
Questions about using Bevy Engine itself are welcome, but I don't pretend to be an expert there! The Bevy Discord, however, is chock-full of such people who will almost certainly know the answer to all your questions.
The code for All The Way Home is free, open source and permissively licensed with the Rust ecosystem's standard dual MIT/Apache license. Please don't attempt to republish or distribute built copies of the game elsewhere, but otherwise I'd like it to be available as a resource to people like me who just need a good working example of 2D Bevy games. If it's helpful, gives you any "aha!" moments, or shows you any patterns you hadn't seen before, I'll be a very happy kiwi.
All assets apart from the code are copyright Eloquent Geek Games, except where specifically stated. Please don't redistribute or modify them in any way. (However, fan art is actively encouraged, please show us on Discord.)
Should you choose to contribute, that's amazing! I could really use the help. By doing so, you acknowledge the following:
- you have the ability to contribute any intellectual property under the dual licenses of this project
- Eloquent Geek Games intends to sell this game
If you are contributing IP from other permissively licensed code, you must provide proper attribution in the source code or metadata. Everyone deserves credit!
Speaking of which, this note cribs useful language from Leafwing Studio's Emergence, many thanks to them.
The odds of the game making any money at all are vanishingly small. However, I do want to distribute it on Steam. I can't imagine it will be exorbitantly priced, and any meagre proceeds will probably be funnelled straight back into development (and caffeinating the developer).