The Murmuring

Don't feel bad! Indie devs have to be responsible for a lot of a lot of different tech and tools that aren't the easiest to learn.

a man with sweat running down his face Alt: A gif of Jordan Peele sweating profusely.

Unity:

Sociopaths willing to harm thousands or millions of people know they can get paid for their lack of conscience and empathy, as long as the end result to the company will be a bigger net profit than if that specific sociopath had not been in charge.

I grew up on these streets.

UI is 95% of my problems in Godot. I've burned several days just trying to wrangle draw order with Control nodes.

They have a ZIndex but for Control nodes it's ignored in favor of tree hierarchy.

Really frustrated with #godot right now. Apparently if you reparent a node it can lose track of input. But tree hierarchy is the only way to determine Control draw order. So now I have to refactor my game and MANUALLY set card render order. #godotengine

There's also @passivestar's Minimal Theme for Godot which I also use. It reduces clutter: github.com/passivestar/...

If you're looking to reduce distracting elements, there's a setting in the editor for the color saturation of the icons. I've turned mine down from 1.0 to 0.7 so they aren't so glaringly bright. Editor settings > Theme > Icon Saturation.

Think I got all my dealing issues sorted out. I swear, off-by-one errors seem like 101% of my problem. #gamedev #godot #godotengine

A screenshot of a solitaire game in very early progress. Monochrome cards on a lovely green background reminiscent of professional felt-covered casino tables with a few ugly buttons underneath.

Taking a break from my "big" game to work on a smaller game (hopefully), which will include Klondike solitaire as a primary mechanic. The app title gives a hint to the game's theme. Pixel card art is by Backterria (on itch.io). #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #godot #godotengine

kermit the frog and darth vader from the muppets are standing next to each other in the dark . Alt: Kermit the frog and Kermit in a black cloak are facing each other. Dark Kermit's mouth moves and text says, "EMBRACE THE DARKNESS."

Do it.

Depends on how much memory we're talking. Calculate a rough estimate of how much memory keeping it all persistent would take. If it's a reasonable amount for a game to use, don't worry about it, just keep it persistent.

Holy whiplash, Batman! Those passengers would be plastered to the doors!

Chia seeds in breakfast foods are a conspiracy by the Big Dental Floss syndicate to make us buy more dental floss.

Love the aesthetic.

I'll do a web search, go to the Discord and search the chat history, I'll talk to my Iron Man figurine (quack!), I'll even ask an AI chatbot. If I asked a question that was easily answerable with a little effort, I would feel embarrassed. Meanwhile other people are like, "Do my homework for me."

If you repost narrow TikTok videos (portrait mode) on YouTube with enormous side bars to make them widescreen (landscape mode), then know this: I absolutely hate your guts.

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If I disable .blend import, it asks to save and restart, and a bunch of dependencies are broken after it does that.

Just FYI, the example library fails to run without Blender installed.

Gets a bit tiring though, doesn't it? Constantly worrying about Unity management's next big stupid decision?

It's responsive design that accommodates user screen size to optimize the game display. It's a good thing.

Thank you, I've been using this theme for a while now! The "Noto Sans Extra Condensed Regular" font pairs great with it.

I really enjoy using Globals for picking scene objects like UI elements instead of using string IDs. Saves lines of code and time.

Hopeful for the future of the new Godot Asset Store!

The Godot cube shape contour is more well-defined, but I prefer the dot colors on the Unity version, less flickery. So... both?

I hate floats.

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Ironically, I found your post in Discover!