Trick Or Retreat 4
Trick or Retreat is back!
After your many adventures stealing candy from earth your *old* ship is in dire need of repair, the mothership leaves for your homeworld tomorrow, but it's Halloween in Dead Brick Metropolis, and you can't resist one last run...
* If you aren't sick of playing games yet and are interested you can try my previous Trick or Retreat entries here and see how they've evolved over the years:
* Ludum Dare 45: Trick or Retreat (Doesn't work on Brave, try Firefox)
* Ludum Dare 49: Trick or Retreat 2
* Ludum Dare 51: Trick or Retreat 3.10
Tools Used
* Godot 4 w/ VSCodium* LMMS for music
* jfxr for sound effects
* GIMP for textures
* Blender for 3d models
* 🤖 AI for game scripts, which allowed me to focus on learning to use Godot with 3D.
* __If something sucks__ (like ship handling/gameplay/etc) that's my fault, since I designed and tuned everything.
* No assets (textures/models/audio/colors) are AI-generated
Controls
* Use the _Mouse_ to catch pedestrians in your tractor beam and steal their candy, or to flash them with your neuralyzer (click and drag onto pedestrian) when they get mad.* Use _WASD_ to move the ship
Comments6
JustinMullin21 Oct 2026, 15:43
Some cool stuff here. The motion of the saucer is very smooth, I enjoyed just flying around. It was fun to dodge cars and try to play fast. Unfortunately I kept dying randomly, and was never able to figure out why!
Nephem21 Oct 2026, 16:00
What a fun mix of parkour and mouse controls! Stealing people’s candy and then wiping their memories really cracked me up. It took me a little while to realize I needed to click and hold on pedestrians to steal candy rather than just click, so a quick tutorial explaining that would help. Overall, I absolutely loved it and had a great time!
Lone_Wolf21 Oct 2026, 16:02
@mateusboga @justinmullin @Nephem Thanks for playing!
The random ship flopping is the ship thrusters failing, which ties into my 'old spaceship' theme interpretation.
Was it obvious that you have to spam-click the thruster button when that happens? I had hoped the flashing arrow over the button would be enough to indicate it but maybe I should have shown a '👆' icon over it instead
The random ship flopping is the ship thrusters failing, which ties into my 'old spaceship' theme interpretation.
Was it obvious that you have to spam-click the thruster button when that happens? I had hoped the flashing arrow over the button would be enough to indicate it but maybe I should have shown a '👆' icon over it instead
JustinMullin21 Oct 2026, 16:32
@lone-wolf ah, got it! The game plays a lot more coherently knowing to spam-click the thruster. Now that you mentioned it I can see the tool tip on that button, but it was not clear to me at all playing the game blind the first time that was the plan. Got a much better score the next time!
The_Fazzo21 Oct 2026, 17:06
Nice game. Was difficult at first to understand the thrusters and memory eraser effects, and sometimes the spaceship was only moving to right or left. But overall its good 👌
Congrats for the entry!
Congrats for the entry!
Overall, this has potential!