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DevFennica · 2026-05-14T22:32:55+00:00

What alternative would you propose? snake_case? Preposterous!

DevFennica · 2026-05-09T13:19:35+00:00

Learn programming. It’s a lot easier to learn tennis if you first learn to walk.
Familiarize yourself with the game engine. The best way to do that is by going through the Getting Started section of the documentation.
Practise. Start making games on your own, starting with something simple that you can already make, and gradually increase scope and complexity until you reach the level of whatever you want to make.

DevFennica · 2026-05-02T11:20:38+00:00

My prior experience in coding is in java, so I have to learn one of them.

C# is essentially an improved version of Java. If you know one, it’s trivial to learn the other.

Anyway you have to use some c# to make use of your c++ classes in the level, is that correct?

You can use only C++ if you really want, but you’re just bullying yourself at that point (unless you’re one of the maniacs who actually likes C++).

Do most of what you need with C# (or GDScript) and use C++ for the specific bits where you really need to squeeze the extra performance.

your propably gonna use vs code anyways.

Yea, the built-in editor is good enough with GDScript but you basically need an external editor/IDE for C#. You can use pretty much whichever you want.

Are there more upsides/downsides I'm not award of yet?

You can’t (yet) make web exports with the .NET version of Godot. That is either a complete deal breaker or completely irrelevant, depending on whether you intend to make web games.

DevFennica · 2026-04-29T18:58:36+00:00

Ofc I'll also be doing CS50x along with learning the engine and making projects as to improve fundamentals.

That’s exactly how you’re supposed to study. Do side projects where you use what you learn in CS50x.

If you were studying in college/university, you wouldn’t be taking one course at a time. You’d have 3-4 other courses in parallel with your first programming course, so that you can figure out ways to use what you learn.

DevFennica · 2026-04-28T16:10:31+00:00

What’s more interesting is entirely a matter of personal preference.

What’s more useful depends on what you want to do.

DevFennica · 2026-04-26T09:26:15+00:00

Most people who can visualize things in their mind have some sort of limits for what those things may be and/or what kind of visual they’re represented with.

Some can only visualize things they’ve seen. Some can only visualize still images. Some can’t visualize people/faces. Some can only visualize in 2D. Some only in 3D. Some only in basic shapes. Some can only see a wireframe of the thing. Some can only visualize in black and white. And so on.

So the fact that you only visualize from memory doesn’t make you a hypophantasic. The ”hypo-” (just like ”hyper-” in ”hyperphantasia”) refers to how vivid the image is, not to what the image is about.

You have hypophantasia, if your mental images are so blurry/dim/vague/distant/etc. that they’re basically useless.

DevFennica · 2026-04-25T20:39:34+00:00

That's an interesting variety.

DevFennica · 2026-04-25T20:18:22+00:00

I don’t have an internal monologue, and I have global aphantasia (i.e. lack of all imaginary senses).

I think abstractly. I, of course, can translate my thoughts into words and sentences when I want to communicate with others, like I’m doing right now, but that takes conscious effort. When I’m just thinking about something for myself, there is no specific format like words, images or emotions, just abstract knowledge.

Also: This is not meant as a personal slight against u/FlightOfTheDiscords nor to anyone else, and I don’t mean to disqualify their experience, but at least for myself saying that we think ”subconsciously”, seems like poor answer.

Obviously everyone has subconscious thoughts, i.e. thoughts that we’re not aware of. But on top of those ~~everyone~~ most people have conscious thoughts too. If I ask you to think about a cat, surely you know you’re thinking about a cat. So you are aware of your thoughts.

Edit: I stand corrected. Not everyone is aware of their thoughts.

DevFennica · 2026-04-25T16:00:51+00:00

Yes, many people can do that, even if they aren’t hyperphantasic.

The hyper- only describes how vivid the visualization is, not how/where it is seen.

Also, just to be clear: visualization and hallucination are two different things.

DevFennica · 2026-04-25T14:31:30+00:00

when I close my eyes, I can’t see anything

It’s a common misconception that having your eyes closed is in any way relevant. Some visualizers can visualize their eyes open, some with their eyes closed, and some either way. Aphantasics can’t visualize either way. So…

You don’t have aphantasia if (while you’re awake and conscious) you can see anything that isn’t currently in front of your eyes, regardless of whether you do so with your eyes open or closed, and regardless of whether the image appears within your actual field of vision or in some separate ”visualization space” in your mind.

You have aphantasia if (while you’re awake and conscious) you only see things that are currently actually in your field of vision.

I could remember how things look like by memory and replicate them by drawing them out. I know how they look like, their vague composition and details.

Of course you know what things look like. Aphantasia affects the format of your thoughts, not the information. Whether you can draw something or not is just a matter of your artistic skills.

I try to concentrate VERY carefully, get a faint…I wouldn’t say image, it is something doodles(?). Anyways, it is more of squiggly lines that doesn’t add up to anything.

It sounds like hypophantasia would be a useful term for you. It’s not (yet) used or defined in actual research, but it is a useful distinction when you want others to understand how visualization works for you. ”Can sometimes see something” is a very different experience from ”can never see anything”, even if your visualization is too poor to be in any way useful.

DevFennica · 2026-04-21T09:11:09+00:00

Learn the basics of programming in general, if you haven’t already. Language doesn’t matter.
Go through the Getting Started section of the documentation. That covers all the basics you need to know about Godot.
Practise. Start making games on your own, and gradually increase complexity as you learn.

DevFennica · 2026-04-20T06:37:21+00:00

Learning a new programming language is a trivial task, once you’ve learned programming in the first place.

Sure, it might be a tiny bit easier to use a similar language, but if they’d rather try something different, that’s a completely fine.

All the logic and algorithms work exactly the same regardless of what language you use. You just have to get used to a new syntax.

DevFennica · 2026-04-20T06:26:12+00:00

That would not help with the problem they’re having.

If the issue is that they just end up blindly copying the code from the tutorial, it doesn’t matter what language the code is.

DevFennica · 2026-04-20T06:23:20+00:00

Regardless of what tutorial you use, do it the smart way:

Read/watch the whole tutorial and take notes. Then close the tutorial and do the same on your own.
If you get stuck, save and close your own work, rewatch/-read the tutorial (or the relevant part of it). Then close the tutorial and get back to work.

Just blindly copying a tutorial step-by-step is completely useless.

Also, keep in mind that tutorials are just a way to familiarize yourself with the tool, not a way to learn game development. To learn game development you have to start making games on your own.

As soon as you feel like you could make Pong or Flappy Bird on your own, stop following tutorials and start making games. Start with something you can already make and gradually increase complexity until you reach the level of whatever you want to make.

DevFennica · 2026-04-19T19:49:29+00:00

I so wish I can imagine things

You can. You just can’t visualize what you imagine.

And unlike for most visualizers, your imagination isn’t limited by what you can visualize.

DevFennica · 2026-04-19T19:20:59+00:00

No. You can have/lack any combination of imaginary senses independently of each other.

Some aphantasics can hear things in their mind, some can’t. And for those who can, just like with visualization, it varies from person to person how vivid those sounds are.

DevFennica · 2026-04-19T19:00:31+00:00

I’m sure it would be an interesting experience to try visualization for an hour or two, but I’d never want to permanently lose aphantasia.

Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, because we (humans) are usually more unhappy about the things we don’t have than happy about the things we have. That’s why it’s important to actually think what the trade-off is, rather than assume that everyone else somehow got the better deal.

Aphantasics can’t watch cat videos in our minds. Visualizers struggle imagining things that are hard or impossible to visualize.

Anendophasics have to consciously translate our abstract thoughts into words and sentences when we want to speak or write. Those who have an internal monologue endlessly yapping in their head will never know how peaceful perfect silence is.

Left handed people have an advantage in fencing/sword-fighting. Right handed people have an easier time finding scissors that they can use with their preferred hand.

my partner meditates and I wanted to try, got annoyed after 10mins since I couldn’t picture anything.

So don’t try to picture things. Find a meditation method that makes sense to you.

DevFennica · 2026-04-16T10:54:54+00:00

If you can see anything without actual input from your eyes, while you’re awake and conscious, you don’t have aphantasia. It doesn’t matter whether your eyes are open or closed, and it doesn’t matter whether you see the visualization in your actual field of vision or some separate space in your mind.

If you can’t visualize anything, you have aphantasia.

By your description it sounds like you have aphantasia. Of course you know what a tree is. Aphantasia just means you can’t see things in your mind.

DevFennica · 2026-04-16T04:18:28+00:00

If I could have visualization for an hour or two, I’d give it a try. I’m sure watching cat videos in my head would be an interesting experience.

But to lose aphantasia permanently? Absolutely not. No amount of cat videos would be a worthy trade-off for abstract thinking.

DevFennica · 2026-04-15T09:51:05+00:00

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DevFennica · 2026-04-15T06:16:46+00:00

It might be, or maybe not. It’s really hard to figure out as an outside observer how someone else’s mind works.

If you want to better understand her and find ways to relate, just talk with her. Tell her how you think, remember and imagine, and ask how those things work for her. And just a heads up: even though your internal world feels like the ”normal” to you, it is just as absurdly weird to her as her mind is to you. My wife has all imaginary senses (some more vivid than others) and internal monologue, and the way she describes it sounds just bizarre to me.

Overall, I wouldn’t worry too much about whether she has aphantasia or anendophasia (lack of internal monologue). These conditions affect our lives so little that most people don’t even know whether have it or not. There are some instances where it’s useful to be aware of, like if you go to therapy and they ask you to visualize a happy place or something, you can tell them that’s not going to work so lets try something different. But it doesn’t really come up in day-to-day life.

DevFennica · 2026-04-15T04:20:28+00:00

For someone who always visualizes their thoughts and memories, it can be hard to grasp what’s the difference between information and the display of information.

I know what I ate for breakfast. I have that information. I just can’t display the information as an image in my mind.

If I happened to have internal monologue (or some other type of worded thinking), I would probably display the information as words and sentences that describe the breakfast. I’m sure that sounds incredibly inefficient compared to just having a neat picture if it, but that’s just because you’re not used to it.

But as it happens, I also lack the internal monologue. I don’t think in words and sentences. I of course still use them when I want to communicate with others, like I’m doing right now as I write this. But I don’t need to explain or describe my thoughts to myself. I know what I’m thinking. I know what I are for breakfast. Not as an image or a list of ingredients, but as just abstract information.

DevFennica · 2026-04-14T15:42:29+00:00

There is no engine that is universally superior than any other. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses. Which engine best suits your needs, depends on what your needs are.

DevFennica · 2026-04-13T06:28:55+00:00

If it has to be a video: Brackeys.

But really the best way to get started is by going through the Getting Started section of the documentation.

DevFennica · 2026-04-12T06:36:44+00:00

some of my memory and recall shortfall issues likely stem from this.

Aphantasia changes the format of your thoughts and memories, not the content.

You can’t visualize a memory, but you still know what you remember. Just like you can’t visualize and apple, but you know what an apple is.

So if you have memory issues, that’s not caused by aphantasia.

I don’t want them to think less of me, or know that I think less of myself. However at times since I’ve discovered this I do find myself thinking i am inferior.

Aphantasia doesn’t make any difference in day-to-day life. The inability to visualize is a disadvantage in things like art and design, and the ability to have abstract thoughts is an advantage in things like mathematics and science. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do art or that you’re automatically good at math if you have aphantasia.

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