You are Stefano, a trainee alchemist with a secret you need to share. But who do you choose to trust?

The Secret Cave is a top-down, narrative RPG, created in a weekend as part of the “Secrets” themed Guildford Game Jam, September 2018. Each character has a unique ending and bespoke music score.

Team

Dan Thomas (@DannyT) – Code and “art” (aka asset wrangling)
Francesco Pirrone (@mightyfrancesco) – Music and Narrative

Tools/Assets

Phaser 3 – HTML5 game engine
Tiled Editor – Tilemap editor
Texture Packer – Sprite sheet creator
Top down town tileset – from Gamedev Market
Character generator – by Gaurav

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Author	Dan Thomas
Genre	Role Playing
Made with	Phaser
Tags	Narrative, Top Down Adventure
Average session	A few minutes
Inputs	Keyboard
Links	Blog

Comments

MerlinOG4 years ago

I see you made this with Phaser 3. Could you please tell me how you handle determining when the player is by a NPC and starting the conversation?

Dan Thomas4 years ago

Hey, it's inelegant (jam code) but the source is available here:

https://github.com/DannyT/ggj-secrets

Specifically, this is the bit which handles the interaction, I have an invisible box gameobject which I do hit detection on to determine what it's overlapping with:

https://github.com/DannyT/ggj-secrets/blob/master/src/scenes/GameScene.js#L163

MerlinOG4 years ago

Thanks a bunch. I have been looking all over for a way to do this.