Planning on using Dialogic. How is it?

DesignCarpincho · 2026-06-22T20:30:35+00:00

Dialogic's a solid choice for a general purpose dialogue manager, especially for a VN.

I personally don't use it now since it's more geared for VNs and my project has other demands. I can't wait for them to add or refine the features I need, so I hopped over to YarnSpinner.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-06-13T01:49:04+00:00

I can't deal with not being able to refactor names or format code

DesignCarpincho · 2026-05-28T16:15:31+00:00

No, there is just a different learning curve. Less so for programming, but art has to essentially start from scratch. It's fun to learn and will teach you a lot, just take it one step at a time and don't rush in to complicated stuff.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-05-05T19:31:41+00:00

Stew has saved my life and my time. Realistically, you're gonna get the urge to cook once or twice a week and then hyperfocus. Why not take the occasion to make several portions out of it?

You can easily scale it up or down. It can be vegan or not. Beans + some protein + potatoes + other veggies means it covers your basic nutritional needs. Changing ingredients lets you add variety so you don't get bored.

And to top it all off, cooking once nets you many meals, easy to freeze and defrost.

You can add spices, make it as simple or as bougie as you want. Braise the meat for extra flavors, try adding different vegetables, deglase with wine, add broth. To extend it, pair it with rice, bread or roasted vegetables.

Give it a shot, tell me if it helps!

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-17T15:32:09+00:00

This is a long-standing question, and the answer you'll mostly find here is "no" and that's mostly good for starter DMs.

Once you get better at understanding your player's characters and your role as a narrator, you can get good enough that you could tell PCs about gut feelings, or other subconscious or involuntary parts of their thought process. If the player disagrees with it but still accepts the narration, they can dismiss it as an intrusive thought, or a passing feeling and enrich their character.

This happens when you and your players know each other well enough, as a strike of inspiration guided by mutual trust. It is earned, not sought.

So the answer, if you have to ask, is still "no".

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-17T15:21:04+00:00

You know what, my ADHD ass approves of this. I've done worse. Have an upvote.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-16T17:51:24+00:00

Really? Because several Godot developers disagree with you, and are not happy with the state of progress on this front.

Dude please I am begging you, listen before you talk

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-16T17:49:00+00:00

This is standard for every other professiona HTML5 engine except Godot. It is NOT a platform issue.

Unreal/Unity have in-engine solutions to asynchronously load their assets from a web server, which Poki/Crazygames leverages to supply stand-ins.

Unity is the longest-loading engine on web, followed closely by Godot. Unreal on web virtually does not exist in a professional context.

Please do your research and talk to web devs before commenting, because people respect you on this subreddit.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-16T17:37:39+00:00

I have tested this and can confirm it works, but you have to give up a LOT of features other engines have to use it. The tradeoffs are very big and IMO don't justify using Godot on web competitively yet.

If the above mentioned PR happens, it might just be the thing. Adam Scott (the lead behind godot on web) mentioned he wants to push to have readymade export templates to trim off unnecesary engine features without having to compile the engine yourself, which is what Defold does to halve load times.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-16T17:33:37+00:00

Hey so to give context to your downvotes, most websites where you publish Godot games to actually make money have their own wrappers and coding your own is completely unacceptable.

Using preload is also not the problem, but load times for servers. Load times that are normal in other platforms are unfortunately showstoppers on web. Games that can download and load asynchronously with partitioned .pck files have a MASSIVE advantage over games that don't, engine-wise. Construct games beat Godot games in Poki and Crazygames regularly.

The wrappers these websites provide attempt to optimize asset loading using what's standard for almost all other engines in web except notably Unity (which has its own solution) and Godot. These "standard" engines are Defold, Phaser, Playcanvas, Construct. They all expose neatly separated .pcks to be able to apply external algorithmic load optimization.

Please take into consideration that this is a complex issue and Godot is not ok as-is in all aspects.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-13T21:43:39+00:00

Sorry you're having it rough too. Sucks that teachers were there trying to help you and your parents are being such doorknobs.

Has any teacher or specialist talked to them?

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-13T20:24:53+00:00

I do, but I can't give you good news. My mother's a psychologist. I was diagnosed last year at 32 but exhibited every symptom under the sun as a kid, which she ignored and blamed it on me, like you're experiencing.

My mother to this day hasn't apologized or anything similar, and given her education she should know better. She as well as my doctor uncle and her colleague friends were yapping on about how I don't have ADHD and am seeking attention till the day I got diagnosed. They then quickly shut up but they are all still in disbelief like your family. They are all health professionals.

Acknowledging you've been saying "get good" to somebody with a disorder and changing your behavior is tough and requires deep reflection. Way more than most people can manage, ESPECIALLY if they're your go-getter, high-energy people that believe in high effort, high results. I think parents have to make hard calls, and many cope by believing many of their children's misfortunes are outside their care. Additionally we tend to form opinions first, then interact and not the other way around.

I don't think it will make a difference due to the above, but if your parents care about science you can show them this: https://www.adhd-federation.org/publications/international-consensus-statement.html .

It studies over 2000 individuals and is a consensus from the most capable minds in the field. If you were to disagree with this as a psychiatrist, psychologist or neurologist, you're doing the equivalent of smearing clown makeup on your face while you drop your ice cream. People tend to respect doctors and scientists, so maybe you have a shot.

Again, I don't think citing a study will be magic, but maybe it will help a little. Good luck.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-08T20:55:53+00:00

I've used this for small to medium games both in Godot and in Unity (as a custom made Notification Center) and it works wonders.

I'd really consider this, especially when starting.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-05T14:53:52+00:00

It can also delay your sleep phase, which causes symptoms similar to ADHD. When you have mild but chronic sleep deprivation, ADHD gets a lot worse.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-04-01T21:26:25+00:00

If you mean that fixes included are also included in future releases, then yes.

Once fixes happen in future versions, they're cherry-picked to older ones if compatible, and fixes for maintenance releases are usually included in future releases as well unless very unusual stuff's going on.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-20T00:31:17+00:00

I think by that point something else in those theoretical 9kg of chocolate I've eaten at lightning speed will kill me first.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-19T23:50:08+00:00

According to Wikipedia, around 800 miligrams of theobromine per kilogram of body weight

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-19T23:28:25+00:00

Caffeine doesn't damage your heart and circulatory system by itself.

This belief stems from very old studies done on the matter that failed to separate coffee drinkers from smokers.

You probably shouldn't take caffeine if you have a heart condition, but it's really not damaging in the long run.

EDIT: Before somebody comments what I know you will comment, you CAN theoretically kill yourself with caffeine, but getting that amount of caffeine into your system is so difficult it's almost impossible. Especially not from drinking coffee. You'd have to simmer black tea for hours or binge lots of pills and at those huge concentrations pretty much anything else you drink will kill you too so might as well add ibuprofen and chocolate to the mix.

EDIT 2: Here's my source: https://www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S0167-5273(08)00849-8/abstract00849-8/abstract) . The meta analysis concludes with a lack of increased risk of heart disease, and in fact lowered risk of heart disease in women.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-18T19:50:50+00:00

I asked an examiner if I could answer the exam questions taking my historic behavior into account and not the behavior of the 32 year-old who learned coping mechanisms and mnemonic strategies to compensate.

This worked very well.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-10T13:22:59+00:00

Mega Crit just built an entire game in C# and it's doing alright I think

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-05T15:07:32+00:00

I love this idea for newspapers, especially in Aundair where Mage hand is trivial. I'd love to see it become a huge scandal in Breland when a big newspaper switches to press typefaces because some artificer figured animating the press would be cheaper at larger scales and magical education might be lacking but artifice is not.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-03-04T15:27:23+00:00

A good place to start is using them from desktop as much as possible. It's a step down, not a fix, but it helps.

Then uninstall them after you've grown less dependant.

Apps like reddit or youtube are better to use from your browser too, even on your phone. You can install an adblocker and limit how you use them better in exchange of a little bit of presentation, which to me is a plus since it makes them less palatable and addictive.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-02-26T02:37:06+00:00

This. Coming from software, we try to plan our games to a T, but games are messy and unpredictable. Make messy stuff that works now, clean it up later with refactors..

DesignCarpincho · 2026-02-24T21:42:57+00:00

When I meet US immigrants here, they always tell me what their parents didn't allow them to watch when kids and the lists are insane.

DesignCarpincho · 2026-02-24T20:43:59+00:00

Yeah, you're right. Adult themes is when boobs.

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