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Screenshot of the artifacts dropdown on a PR on github.

I only learned recently that downloading the Godot editor compiled with changes from specific PRs is extremely easy!

Go to the PR, then to the Checks tab, and download the editor for your platform from the Artifacts dropdown!

(A few more notes on that in this thread…)

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This one hits hard.

There’s several reasons that business and public figures began immediately associating WFH with laziness and slacking, one is that these are things they already believe about disabled/chronically ill folk, and they hope you do, too.

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

God of War PS4 had a good soundtrack but Ragnarok OST was SO generic

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me:

"The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

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Also don't worry that the room will be one of the most crowded ones, for a subject like this

a sign that says " yes yes yes yes yes yes " Alt: a sign that says " yes yes yes yes yes yes "

YES
But I have trouble seeing how it could be a workshop without devkits and not getting into legal issues

An AMA about how you did the port, how generic it is (I suppose high-end 3D features are not supported), how difficult it is to tweak on a per/game or need basis... would be very cool !!

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

*présent

C'est plus tolérable, moins impactant, mais toujours aussi pressant

On peut discuter en DM si vous êtes en galère

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

Le stress, la dépression, les problèmes de santé mentale ont des impacts très concrets et matériels dans la vie des gens qui en souffre et qui peuvent se transformer en cercle vicieux. Plus que jamais dans ces moments, le tissu social est primordial pour s'en sortir.

Something I feel strongly for is, to reduce dependency on US digital infrastructure, EU should fund more open source alternatives

(another thing I feel strongly for is, if EU does that, each project must use some of the funding to hire a required minimum amount of dedicated UX/UI specialists)

I firmly believe, open source often being bad at UX is the #1 reason it's not already the standard in most software.

When open source does UX really well (Blender, Godot), look how well it does

Good picks

I was also thinking of Kepler (Rematch, E33, Pacific Drive) and Krafton (PUBG, Hi-Fi Rish, Subnautica 2) on my side

I think AA are coming back and would solve many of the big publishers issue (risk aversion, production costs, people less inclined to put >60$ in a game...)

Until it gets flooded again, but I really think there's an opening currently

AA everyone ? Clair Obscur, ARC Raiders, Helldivers, Sloclap games (Sifu/Rematch), Hi-Fi Rush, It Takes Two, Hellblade...

Although I concede most of them got their fundings from AAA publishers... but unless a studio already got cash, the money must come from somewhere anyway 🫤

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

There is no standard 😅

I tend to just name the topmost node for what it is (e.g. "Player"), and the children with their types ("Sprite", "CollisionShape", whatever...). Occasionally, I add the name of the topmost node as prefix for children (so : "PlayerSprite")

on Weird West, i made a "global tweakables" data asset for vars that need tweaking by folks who might not know the systems. it sucks when a designer has to assign a task for eg "lockpicking takes too long" because the value for that is in c++ or a BP node somewhere. separate code from data gang

Same haha

But to be fair, we tend to say VCS to avoid confusion

In regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever

This is exactly what I was trying to say earlier this week.

When looking purely at launch engagement Highguard did as well or better than any game like it can reasonably be expected to reach.

If Highguard's launch couldn't even buy the team a month to figure it out what are even doing here.

Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy One way to get out of the video-game industry funk is to recognize that players aren’t spending $70 on most games

One takeaway from the DICE convention here in Las Vegas, where game makers gather to pitch and schmooze?

Most video games should not cost $70.

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