Super-noob #Godot question:
I have a very simple 2D platformer with a tilemap to make the background and the platform, and a character with basic movement. I know how to "paint" some of my tiles with the "physics layer" so the character can stand on them etc, but if I try to include a "rigidbody2d", it bounces against my charachter, but passes straight through the floor tiles. Let' s say I am baffled and have no clue which beginner mistake I am making.
@lisyarus No, no rigid bodies in that tutorial. I have followed it and now I am trying to expand on it, but of course I have no idea what I am doing yet 😬
Oh man oh dang I just figured out how to do something really hard and my code worked the first time and the hell do you MEAN 27 errors come here I'll show you 27 errors #godot#godotengine#indiedev#gamedev
#HorrorFolkloreJam entry is progressing! The idea here is to build a sort of Castlevania 2 like town with people having set schedules like in stardew valley, as you hunt for specific targets at the right time to not blow your cover.
Work in the last couple days involved a 2d character controller, getting an Astar implementation going, and getting the NPC to follow a very simple schedule.
@godotengine I know it's a meme, but I find it a bit sad for people that are looking forward advances in Godot's render. Would be nicer something similar from Godot
#godot developers, what's your best practice for Steam cloud saves? Until now I've used the Godot "user data folder" for save games, but obviously Steam has no knowledge of that folder. Just curious what you all do, if you use cloud saves at all.
@risingtail@aaron_codes, it honestly doesn't matter, it's wherever your game already stores saves, but OS-wise defaults are app specific folders under "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local" on windows and "$XDG_DATA_HOME" on linux (if XDG_DATA_HOME is not set, you should default to ~/.local/share per desktop spec)
Stunt Xpress is a game where you drive a delivery van off a ramp, and while airborne, shoot a parcel into a plane flying nearby... And no. That's not a scripted event 😉 #godotengine#indiedev#indiegame
I hate that so many tutorials and whatnot are video rather than text, for a variety of reasons.
If I had copious spare time I'd write tutorials for Godot. Almost all of the Godot instructional material I've found has been video… constantly pausing the video to try out whatever they're talking about is annoying, it takes me 3-4 hours to get through an hour of video tutorial.
@Taffer same. Thanks for making explicit a part of why video is so bad for this, which is failed to articulate. That video is appealing because it seems easier to consume, but that only works if you expect to be a passive watcher. Effective consumption instead requires actually trying things out as you go.
@Taffer I hear ya.. For someone with #adhd , it can be hard to focus on what is being said in the video, and pretty annoying to have to pause and unpause for each step in the #tutorial..
Kinda makes me wish #YouTube had a push-to-play option where you had to keep pushing a button for the video to play, and it would automatically pause whenever the window loses focus while I do the step.
@aenderlara I love how you are able to provide so much flexibility in object manipulation in such a (for the player) extremely effortless way. This is the kind of design I admire and strive for myself.
@memoriesin8bit Thank you!❤️ there's a lot of back and forward with myself Im trying to make it the more natural possible, and I think Tiny Glade has been also a lot of inspiration, did not played yet but there videos really inspire to make the UX clean and natural as possible.
2 years of work compressed in 1 minute. I did this video because today is a very special day: the Stunt Xpress Demo has just launched on Steam! 🥳We can't wait to hear what you think of it! 💙 (🔊) #godotengine#indiedev#indiegame
So, #godot wizards, how do you come up with #game ideas? I've been studying GDScript, have a programming background, and should be able to make something, but an actual idea escapes me. Any advice would be appreciated.
@bgardner One Idea: Remake something extremely simple. An early1980s arcade game, maybe. Allow yourself one or two small experimental flourishes. 😁
A long time ago I was an accomplished professional programmer, doing cool graphical things with shaders, had big ambitions for games I wanted to write. The above advice was the best I ever received.
@bgardner Right now I'm doing Missile Command, and my flourish is that the screen scrolls just a little, to follow the cursor around, and the ground is slightly curved, like a section of the surface of a planet, so as the screen scrolls left and right, it also rotates, just slightly. Makes the play area come alive, feeling vertiginous and dynamic.
