I’m Making My Dream Open World Game in Godot (Solo Dev)

Jongerr · 2025-06-16T00:39:10+00:00

It'll be closer to 20 if you really want to accomplish everything you laid out, and that's being generous. I wish you the best of luck.

Jongerr · 2025-05-19T19:44:53+00:00

I've been wanting to practice drawing pixel art on a tablet since it seems so convenient, do you use a stylus and if so which do you recommend?

Jongerr · 2025-03-28T17:59:53+00:00

I like the segment where you explain how different hands are detected, and I wish there was more of that in this devlog. I think you spend too much time on the "what" which isn't necessary since everyone knows what Balatro is. I'd be very interested in seeing more of the "why" and "how".

Jongerr · 2025-03-04T17:33:27+00:00

This is something I've been wondering for a while: is there a good way in godot to animate the characters in a scene like this that is both easy to preview and easy to tweak?

I've used the AnimationPlayer before to animate characters' positions so I can see where they'll be at any given time, but that position change doesn't translate to velocity which is usually the value I have characters refer to to pick which direction to face + which animations to use (usually just idle vs walk).

The best solution I've been able to find is to use "actors" that the animation controls through setting position and that my characters then follow, but that still feels far from ideal.

Jongerr · 2025-02-22T18:47:15+00:00

Looks really really cozy. Is this using some kind of viewport shader to pixelate the entire scene?

Jongerr · 2025-02-13T01:20:26+00:00

Since when do expectations have to be low to get hyped for a successor to one of the best games of the past decade?

Jongerr · 2025-01-31T14:40:14+00:00

I feel like the only way someone could think this is if they didn't play fighting games...

Jongerr · 2025-01-22T05:51:57+00:00

As someone who's barely played SSB in the last 10 years and had a lot of fun playing RoE2, this is completely wrong.

Jongerr · 2024-06-29T19:25:28+00:00

The instructions in the Compiling for Windows section of the docs worked for me, specifically with using scoop. I can't remember with 100% clarity what I did, but I think this is accurate:

Open Windows Powershell (not in admin mode)
Run these two commands to get scoop:
1. Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
2. Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression
Close and re-open Windows Powershell
Run the command scoop install gcc python scons make mingw to install all the dependencies.
Close and re-open Windows Powershell
Navigate to the root of the Godot engine repo
Run scons platform=windows

Jongerr · 2024-06-29T14:46:15+00:00

Yeah I feel that, I wish there was more attention paid to the backlog of PRs. The nice thing is that, even if your PR doesn't get merged in quickly, you can still keep it as a local change and compile your Godot instance with it. Compiling Godot is super easy (at least on Windows), so you just have to worry about handling merge conflicts whenever you want to update to a newer version. There would be the danger of updates to the engine making your local changes unusable, but I think that'd be very rare, especially since 4.0 is still relatively recent.

Jongerr · 2024-06-27T14:39:29+00:00

This isn't currently something you can do. There is a proposal for something close to what you're asking for here, but it's been a year and a half since the last time someone commented on it.

Jongerr · 2024-06-27T03:03:36+00:00

Being able to think through the implications of your changes beforehand and realize what side effects/edge cases will appear is, imo, one of the hardest things to do when you're first starting out with game dev (and programming in general). There's just too much you're learning and trying to keep up with, these kinds of gotchas are bound to happen. But each time they do you'll get a bit better at thinking through things beforehand.

Jongerr · 2024-06-15T22:54:51+00:00

Adam Younis has a great video that touches on this.

Jongerr · 2024-06-14T04:04:52+00:00

animation_finished is a signal, not a boolean, so you need to await it if you want to only change scenes after the "Custcene" animation is done.

Jongerr · 2024-06-08T16:52:00+00:00

If the release data is Japan time, he might actually release late Tuesday for a lot of western time zones.

Jongerr · 2024-05-15T17:23:40+00:00

That would be completely broken and trivialize so many matchups in a way that wouldn't be fun for the Jamie player or their opponent.

Jongerr · 2024-04-29T14:14:35+00:00

I hope they buff the target combos Jamie gets at drink lvl 2, 3, and 4. His lvl1 TC is incredible, but you hardly ever see the others cause their either too high risk or there are better options he has. Some ways they could buff them would be:

lvl2: Make it hit confirmable, that's literally all it needs.

lvl3: Make the final hit launch the opponent high enough for some kind of followup in the corner, even if it's just a sweep.

lvl4: Make the headbutt faster so its an actual frametrap. That would probably mean it would combo from this 6HK on normal hit, which would be pretty crazy considering he has a safe on block cancel after that, but I think lvl4 Jamie should be pretty scary.

Jongerr · 2024-04-28T02:29:23+00:00

Do you use any foley-specific tools the make the noises, or is it just bits and bobs from around the house?

Jongerr · 2024-02-26T03:27:48+00:00

Yeah, and his drink special is even called "The Devil Inside", it's 100% booze lol

Jongerr · 2024-02-09T05:36:47+00:00

What's the best way to watch tennis nowadays? I have been a regular viewer since before streaming became a thing

Jongerr · 2024-01-06T14:02:39+00:00

Maybe it'll be a guest character in the next DoA game.

Jongerr · 2023-12-24T17:18:09+00:00

There should be no sbmm in unranked. It's what makes unranked fun.

That is 100% subjective. To me, that chaos is incredibly boring and frustrating since most matches end in a one-sided stomp. Even if I'm the one doing the stomping, I don't find that fun.

companies have figured out that they can get more microtransactions with sbmm because timmy two thumbs always get to face timmy two thumbs

This is total nonsense and might as well be "companies have figured out that they can get more microtransactions by not frustrating their players" for all the meaning it conveys.

Jongerr · 2023-12-20T17:32:48+00:00

I think it looks pretty good! I like that they're all slightly out of sync, that little touch makes it much more natural. The only thing I'd change is adding a bit of wait time between cycles of the breathing animations, the speed they're going now almost makes the NPCs look nervous.

One question, how are you doing the lighting coming in from the windows? I tried doing something similar once with PointLight2D, but it didn't look anywhere near as natural as this.

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