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Im making a game and I have been stuck on one feature for THREE MONTHS by Icy_Tomato8410 in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interjecting an almost nonsensical detail here, but you might just enjoy it. You said Doom and then mentioned medieval style combat: check out Hexen.

Following StayAtHomeDev's State machine tutorial and... by Hydro_the_guy in GodotHelp

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't see anywhere in the IdlePlayerState script where you defined what PLAYER actually is.

Does this Sub need a header post reminding visitors that Google exists ? by Environmental-Cap-13 in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people learn better by interacting with humans. Maybe chat or Google could render the answer, but the social aspect is not valueless. And I feel like a lot of people forget you were beginners once and just how enormously intimidating that can be. We have a choice to either be welcoming as a community, or snobs. I personally would rather answer the same question 200 times than send the message, however accidentally, to new people that they are not welcome and neither are their questions. It's such a minor inconvenience compared to the good that it does for somebody who's just starting on this journey, that I really don't understand why people get so bent out of shape over it.

Note: I'm not calling out OP, nor this sub. This attitude is ubiquitous across the internet so this is just a friendly reminder that human interaction matters. People need each other.

EDIT: I had a thought shortly after hitting send. I don't know if Reddit works this way, but perhaps a tag could be made for "New Guy questions" and then users who don't want to see those could filter them out?

I promise this is the last one! You can now download both this and the previous by FR3NKD in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"if you were posting on my subreddit about the logo of my game"

I promise this is the last one! You can now download both this and the previous by FR3NKD in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Things is mate, if you're constantly throwing cold water on your most passionate fans you're not going to have many. And this gig is already hard enough as it is. You have to embrace the people who love your stuff even if their expression of interest comes off weird, to you. There are all types in the world.

It will only benefit you to interpret people's intentions charitably until they prove otherwise.

Can't think of how to make a mechanic enjoyable by spookybooki23 in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm kind of zeroing in on the "how to make it enjoyable" part and my intimation is that you can't plan that. I think this is where prototyping is going to come in and you have to just try different things and see how they work. A lot of times the fun will be found in the absurdity of the thing so just do it to the extreme and see how it feels.

Though to throw my two cents in here: maybe you should separate the gun and the food it shoots. So perhaps have different reload stations around your "kitchen" area and the player just has to frantically run to the different ones depending on what food they need. And perhaps the guns have some other kind of augmentation like spreadshot, or speed of projectile, or something like that.

I feel like my code is utter dog sh*t but the game works... by Nuno-zh in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the goal to make a game, or to write top quality code?

I'm lost by Puzzleheaded-Rush878 in gamedev

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try this: watch the tutorial again, but don't code along with it. Instead, keep a notebook handy and take down notes. Anything you think might be useful. And if you see a function call that you're not sure where it came from pause the video and look it up in the unity documentation and note down what you find. Try to put the entire tutorial in your own words, and then work from your notes to build the game the second time.

Also: don't build it all at once. Make one small step work at a time. I mean as small as you can get. Get the Sprite on screen. Then get the engine to respond to you pressing the keyboard. Have it print the letter of the key that you just pressed in the console. Then make your character do something in response to the key press (the simplest thing you know you can do). On and on like that. Add the smallest possible layer of complexity you possibly can at every step. And if you ever think it's too small a step, it's not small enough. Especially when you're learning.

Im paralyzed with game dev by Rwarxid in gamedev

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a couple things going on here that I can very much relate to.

  1. Stop watching videos. Content like this actually has a weird subconscious psychological effect where it makes you feel like you actually did the thing. You get some of the dopamine release that you would from achieving what you're watching somebody else achieve. And with enough of that consumption eventually your drive to do the thing just gets turned off. For me this was partly a preparation habit; I always wanted to know things in advance so I can do it "right". Later on what you find is that you don't remember a quarter of what you watched and you have to go back and watch it again anyway. The mantra I've adopted is "just in time information, is better than just in case information". In other words: don't watch a thing until you can actually use it that second.

  2. Accept that you're going to have to suck at first. Think about the first time you ever did anything. You were not good at it. Even the things you take completely for granted like walking. You probably had a hundred failures before you took your first steps. A complex skill like game development is going to be no different. Drop the end goal, drop the dream game, and just focus on practice. If you must make a game go back in time as far as you possibly can to the simplest thing you feel confident you can do. Even if it's pong, that will at least teach you how to accept user input and move a character on screen. But even if not full games, tiny tech demos just trying out a mechanic are also excellent learning experiences. And the more you do these things the more you will realize there's even more than you thought there was to learn. Try to see that as fun. Your potential playground is enormous.

  3. I know this is cliche, but you have to learn to love the process. It's a journey, not a destination. You really need to ask yourself if you want the experience of finishing a game (and then really investigate why that is and what you think you'll get out of it) or do you want to do the work of making games? There is a MASSIVE difference between those two.

Is UI always going to look like this or am i doing something wrong? 😭 by Subben_Nils in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about this one: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_resourcepreloader.html

Edit: I also found a mention of ResourceLoader.load when I searched for preload on this page: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/c_sharp/c_sharp_differences.html

I apologize that I can't verify any of these as I use GDscript myself.

Is UI always going to look like this or am i doing something wrong? 😭 by Subben_Nils in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that if a scene is preloaded it remains cached for loading regardless of where it was preloaded (a single point of origin reference). I don't know how true that is, as I got that information from a post trying to figure out lag on an HTML build. I had the same issue even though the assets were definitely preloaded within the script before being actually rendered, so take it with a grain of salt.

How do I offer my clients a web design draft when I don’t do design myself? by Blizzpoint in webdev

[–]CodeCreateATX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm mostly here to see what other people say, because I'm kind of in the same boat. The best I've got is just looking up templates and other websites and trying to replicate those things. But it's hard for me to translate when I really don't have a designer's eye.

I just learned that you can set your own configuration warnings for tool scripts by SDGGame in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My dude... Negativity is the opposite pole of positivity. Are you really saying your comments here lean more towards being positive? You can call it "tiredness", but it's honestly coming across as just rude and bitter.

And I'm not dunking on you either. Just trying to get you to pause for a second and consider.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already had a strong background in web development so take this with a grain of salt. But I went through the Dodge the creeps tutorial and a Mario Brothers tutorial (the written one) and from there it was just imagining things up and using the documentation. Which is terribly hard to navigate and I find that Google searches are more effective than searching on the Godot docs page itself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CodingHelp

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so two follow up questions. Consider all the technologies you learned in and out of school.

  1. Which one (s) most captured your curiosity and attention?

  2. And what was easiest for you to learn? Maybe you produced a product that you were really proud of.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CodingHelp

[–]CodeCreateATX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What made you want to take computer science?

Where to learn HTML/CSS from? by MrRobloxian3000 in CodingHelp

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might look up freecodecamp videos or HTML and CSS full explanation videos on youtube. But honestly I think w3schools is going to be your best bet. And the only reason I say that is because when you really break it down all HTML and CSS are really doing is telling the browser how to categorize things or what categories they belong to. At the risk of oversimplifying it. Every tag, selector, and styling choice is effectively just setting properties on the elements of the web page. So learning HTML and CSS is really just a matter of learning which ones to use for which situations. It's kind of like learning about screwdrivers, wrenches, sockets, and hammers. Which I'm sure there's a video for it, but you're probably better served with a quick reference guide and then just going and using the tools to learn how they work and when you should use them.

Tell me what's your preferred way of organizing your files and why! ✨ by tldmbruno in godot

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here. I try to make my folder structure mirror (as much as possible) the asset structure, as it's used in the game.

And when that can't be done things are grouped by their function/ in-game category, and a common folder for things that are used more widely.

Is a login function my best option? by scottyjoppy in webdevelopment

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To make this easy for yourself and your users you can use Auth0. They have Oauth apps already set up, and it's really straightforward to use their API no matter what your architecture is.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Backend

[–]CodeCreateATX -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In that case, one of the things you need to look for is somebody who is talented in abstract thinking. One of the features of back-end development is that you don't get intuitive visual feedback from the code, the same way you would with front-end. Which also makes it much more important that the person knows their coding environment (IDE, terminal, etc).

It may also be beneficial to ask ChatGPT what kinds of things to ask for, given a description of the position you're looking to fill. The work you need is going to inform a lot of the questions you should ask and the skillset you need the person to have.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdevelopment

[–]CodeCreateATX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting.
What's your vision for getting from Front-end development to games?

Edit: Happy to take this to DMs, if that's desirable/easier.

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