#use the godot engine

[lostdata109]

Welp, Time to relearn GoDot and Unreal Engine again!

I can't say what I'm thinking the unity higherups should do or my blog will get suspended

[ganondoodle]

game dev is such an alluring thing to try to do bc its a kind of media that allows for such an active and direct way to interact with others like most things just dont

im still dreaming of trying it every now and again but, among my other problems, i run into the more unique problem of .. not knowing or not wanting to start bc i cant find tutorials that teach me about how i structure code, where do i begin, where does a script go, what makes sense to seperate into its own piece of code and what should stay together, what do i do first?? i have found ones that teach you about single things but never really how to structure it all, how it should look like as a whole, and idk what mental wall i run into but i need to know before i can even try!! its the not knowing where to start that keeps blocking me bc i dont want to make a mess, i am very chaotic and code is something hard to get right and hard to untangle so i dont want to just .. do stuff that wont work

[squiddo01]

help wtf is this program im so confused what the fuck does any of this mean

[shotgunhandsofficial]

Ramona Moreau, art by @tolguachabug

Join the Discord server there's a lot going on, sometimes

You can also join the dev team over there that's cool, right?

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pluh 🗣

[fern-fully]

I figured out how to make a really neat mechanic w/ movable windows!! I have no idea if I'll finish this in time for the game jam it was originally made for but something about dragging around the windows and the character being able to break out of them is so fun

[snailmakesgames]

Screenshot saturday !! character model + customization screen for a project I'm currently tinkering on :)

[quohotos]

Oh yeah, your boyfriend? Sorry, he's compiling shaders (45% complete). Yeah, he's been that way for about an hour. Yeah, you're gonna have to come back later. No, I don't know when he's done. Yeah, this just happens, is this the first time you've opened him on this device? Yeah, watch out for that, just be patient.

[0x4468c7a6a728]

i've gotta program something soon...

[emeraldcatears]

so if i'm thinking correctly, a party system would basically be made similarly to an inventory system, right?

[psycho-coded]

what if i cut you a lot

Good week i think.

I got the idle sprite animations working, although it was surprisingly tricky to get them synced despite having the same frame rate. I will probably mess around with them a lot, but glad they're here.

I also got a bunch of stuff working with the cutting. You can cut and detached limbs, the limb will shoot away from the body, and the cutting line will glow a deeper red to indicate damage.

I still need to adjust the cut limb ejections, the limb dragging and connecting itself, and a bunch of small juice things :)

-i

[blushyplushiegirl]

being forced to use unreal rn and the c++ experience is absolutely miserable

intellisense doesnt work a solid 70% of the time, debug messages take way too much effort to write, Im still not particularly a fan of header files, creating a c++ class sometimes doesnt update the in-editor file browser AND IT DOESNT HAVE A REFRESH BUTTON??? you need to find a specific python console command to avoid restarting the entire editor????

[pixelaves]

uh. little dude? you ok?

[ghostlymoonbyte]

i have no idea what i'm doing but i'll make it work somehow 👍

[stemmmm]

yeah i dont know a lick of code and i know programming is hard but i know exactly what i want to do and im really smart so i can definitely make a game

*the first piece of code i got out of following a youtube tutorial doesn't run*

[nillthirteen]

Look, I wanna be clear, I have nothing against GameMaker as a piece of software, or against anyone who works on it or uses it regularily. It's a very powerful piece of software, and I'm sure if it works for you, it's fantastic.

but holy shit I hate using this fucking thing so goddamn much. I prefer Godot's workflow so much more, it's so much easier to keep all the code logic straight in my head, I have so much more control over every minutia, I can set it up exactly how I want it, there's built in documentation. Then, as required by my module, I have to switch back to GameMaker, where all the code is siloed away from all the other code, 40% of the screen is taken up by menus I barely need, the godot analogs of which take up 10% of the space, and I have to comb through every event just to find the one stupid piece of logic causing everything to break.

I get that part of this is probably either inexperience, or my fault, but god I just do not click with the workflow, and I'm dreading having to use it all next semester as well.

[snailmakesgames]

No music yet, but I've got a proper title screen!!

I think this is starting to heavily lean more towards GBC than NES but... I really love it so I may end up keeping it anyway LMAO

I think the main thing that might make it not NES-faithful is the parallax between the game logo and the background .. Colors should be okay going by the palette per 8x8 grid rule, but it definitely would not be able to move like that unless the entire thing was a huge sprite. Oh well.