Lumberjack Runner 🪓🌲

Smash through the forest, gather timber, and upgrade your lumberjack in this fast-paced, physics-driven arcade game!  In Lumberjack Runner, you don't use an axe—you use your momentum. You are a heavy-impact lumberjack whose goal is to build up speed and physically crash into trees to chop them down. The faster you run, the harder you hit, and the rarer the trees you can destroy!  Can you unlock the legendary Void skin and shatter the Golden Pines?

🎮 How to Play

• Move & Dash: Use [Arrow Keys] or [W, A, S, D] to move. Or use the Virtual Touch Joystick on mobile devices.
• Momentum is Key: Run in a straight line to build up speed. You must maintain enough speed to break through tougher trees.
• Chop by Impact: Crash into trees! If you are too slow, you will bounce off them helplessly.
• Sell & Upgrade: Once your backpack is full, return to the Central Camp (Drop Zone) to sell your timber for coins.
• Frenzy Mode: Chain 5 successful chops in a row to ignite your aura, boosting your speed by 1.5x and guaranteeing critical hits for a short duration!

🌲 The Forest Ecosystem

Different trees require different impact speeds. Only the fastest lumberjacks can harvest the rarest woods!

Tree Type	Appearance	Required Speed	Wood Yield	Coin Bonus
Common	Autumn Orange	Low (90 px/s)	2 - 4	+0 🪙
Red Oak	Blood Red	Medium (180 px/s)	5 - 8	+5 🪙
Mystic Pine	Neon Blue	High (270 px/s)	10 - 15	+15 🪙
Golden Rare	Glowing Gold	Very High (340 px/s)	18 - 26	+40 🪙

🛒 Upgrade Shop Features

Use your hard-earned coins in the live-updating shop menu to evolve your character:

• 🚀 Speed Dash: Increases your top movement speed to break harder trees.
• 🎒 Large Backpack: Increases the maximum amount of timber you can carry per trip.
• 🌲 Dense Forest: Decreases the spawn cooldown, making trees appear faster.
• 💰 Fine Timber: Increases the base value of every piece of wood you sell.
• 💥 Critical Hit: Increases your chance to trigger a massive, time-stopping critical strike!
• 🧲 Timber Magnet: Automatically pulls dropped wood toward you.
• 🍀 Golden Luck: Increases the spawn rate of Mystic and Golden trees.
• ✨ Legendary Skin: Evolve your lumberjack's color and aura (Normal > Bronze > Cyan > Gold > Ruby > Void).

✨ Features & "Juiciness" (Game Feel)

Developed with a strong focus on satisfying game feel and physical feedback:

• Procedural Map Generation: A seamless, randomly generated map with solid physical rock boundaries that keep you in the action.
• Physics-Based Bouncing: Fail to break a tree? Prepare to be physically knocked back!
• Hit-Stop & Squash/Stretch: Critical hits freeze the game for a split second while trees deform and stretch on impact.
• Directional Felling: Trees don't just disappear—they fall over physically based on the exact direction you hit them from.
• Dynamic Animation Controller: Smooth 6x12 spritesheet animations that adapt to your speed and direction perfectly.
• Auto-Save System: Close the game anytime; your coins, wood, and upgrades are automatically saved to your device.
• Bilingual: Fully playable in both English and Spanish with a live toggle.

🛠️ Development Info

• Engine: Built entirely in Godot 4.
• Code: 100% GDScript. UI, Map Generation, and Upgrades are fully handled by code (no static scenes).
• Input: Supports Keyboard and Mouse, with a built-in Virtual Joystick for mobile/touchscreen exports.

Are you ready to chop? Download below or play directly in your browser!