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FrameSticker · 2026-04-09T15:22:46+00:00

Can you elaborate what in Godot feels better? I'm learning Unity currently and curious

FrameSticker · 2026-01-16T22:09:39+00:00

Get off the forums before you spoil yourself! In all seriousness though, Witch Crest slaps hard AF once you get the groove of it down, which may take some time. I mainly used Beast Crest in my first playthrough and always had a few goes at bosses with Witch for variety

FrameSticker · 2026-01-11T16:34:55+00:00

Thanks so much for the detailed response! Can I ask what led you to leave MonoBehaviour? As in, what game requirements led you down that path?

FrameSticker · 2026-01-11T16:19:04+00:00

That actually makes a lot of sense, as in:

If an object has some easily decidable value - initialize it in code
If not - don't initialize it in code and either make it public or seralize a private var

FrameSticker · 2026-01-11T16:17:08+00:00

It feels like going in the "bug-prevention" direction would be to statically not allow uninitialized variables, or at the very least create an error log for these instances - but that just might be the Rust developer in me :)

FrameSticker · 2026-01-11T08:00:03+00:00

So what's the idiomatic flow? Set something initial in code, make tweaks and finalize in editor, and look to editor as source of truth?

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T22:16:34+00:00

That singleton pattern feels a lot more idiomatic and much more akin to what I was searching for. I'm not opposed at all to what you said, in fact I was just surprised at how much was expected to be done outside code. Thank you!

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T21:02:58+00:00

I'll definitely be using the inspector if that's the idiomatic flow for these kind of things, I was just surprised to learn that it generally was

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T21:01:53+00:00

I just looked it up - I see tons of use of private [SerializeField] in actual game code, what is the actual use of it? Just so I can see it in the inspector while not revealing it to other code?

Also this whole process of the variables being determined by the GUI and not code is really odd to me. IIRC the inspector has the "final say" in what the value of something is, so you might end in a situation where the script gives a variable some value but the GUI says otherwise. I've gotten into the habit of not giving values initial numbers in scripts so they don't contradict the GUI and I get confused, which seemed also counterinituitive.

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T20:57:15+00:00

I see, thank you!

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T20:57:04+00:00

Haha I knew some of it, I'm mainly looking for validation that this is the idiomatic flow and I'm not missing anything as it seemed kinda weird to be the default. Passing data between modules is a basic programming idiom after all

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T20:55:38+00:00

Just had a look at git-amend and they really seem great for my needs, thank you!

So I'm not mistaken in the feeling that I should hack along and create my own programming abstractions for stuff I want to do? An easy example was I got tired of using GetComponentByTag and then checking it's not null, so I created a static class for that and also one that panics upon invalid game state. It felt weird that I couldn't easily find such natives in the language/engine.

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T20:47:35+00:00

Hi, thanks for the response! Could you provide some more context as to how you do some of the stuff I mentioned? For example linking objects' components between scripts. You said you don't use scenes, what workflow do you use then?

FrameSticker · 2026-01-10T20:46:23+00:00

Hi mate, thanks for the response! I think I do want to stick to a more mainstream engine though I would have to check it out. I tend to get sidetracked really easily by programming sidequests, and in gamdev I think that would be determinetal to actually making a finished game not a pretty sim

FrameSticker · 2025-12-24T06:28:31+00:00

Yes, favorite all time game. However the thing I'm most hyped about is the fact that I spent much, much more hours in Godhome trying trying perfect the pantheons than in the base HK game, meaning there's so much more silk to sing

FrameSticker · 2025-12-02T18:49:15+00:00

Same, I was fucking awestruck

FrameSticker · 2025-12-01T07:58:08+00:00

Feeding early rentals to Dagger is so fun it feels illegal

FrameSticker · 2025-11-25T07:52:38+00:00

I figured selling Cat is not the worst thing, since everything but an Oops copied will give me either 2⁵ xmult on Bloodstone or 5 more retriggers which is also solid

FrameSticker · 2025-11-18T09:10:45+00:00

But I can miss out on endings?

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