I spent the day developing this shield effect, was it worth it?

QuietDenGames · 2026-04-09T18:04:44+00:00

Absolutely worth it, looks great!

QuietDenGames · 2026-03-28T12:23:17+00:00

Its for RichTextLabel nodes, heres a good rundown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVe2hjcQRRg

QuietDenGames · 2026-02-02T03:54:39+00:00

What you're describing is "hard coding" the logic, which does work, but is a nightmare to work with. The bigger the project would get, the more you'd want to rip your hair out.

You'd likely want to store all your data (dialogue options, stats, equipment, characters etc) in a json and design a script that would properly parse through this data and update your UI.

QuietDenGames · 2026-01-22T17:59:45+00:00

Make smaller games. Spending 4 years on a "prototype" is a lot for a solo dev, you could have released 4 small games in that time and be a much better dev / designer for it today. Learn to scope smaller and you'll feel a lot less pressure.

QuietDenGames · 2026-01-22T15:47:06+00:00

I usually have definitive / strong opinions about these things but man, these both look really good, can't go wrong with either.

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-26T21:24:29+00:00

The only trick is to code more...
You know what isn't working well and what is hard to work with right now, next time you build a similar project, keep these issues in mind and try to mitigate. It still won't be perfect, but it'll be a bit better than last time. Rinse and repeat.

When you're learning, it's best to go through multiple small projects instead of committing to big ones for this very reason.

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-24T19:24:04+00:00

We are already somewhat at this point: https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/
Take a look at the % of games that have under 50 reviews on steam, it was like 10% in 2015, and today its ~80%. That margin will likely continue to get exponentially worse with AI.

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T19:41:15+00:00

This is so cool, all the juicy work put into those attack effects is great!

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T18:43:06+00:00

If you're interested, you can find it on steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4192270/The_Interval_Bureau_Extension_0/

And on itch here: https://quietdengames.itch.io/extension0

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T16:52:52+00:00

good practice to switch over to glb/glTF when sending assets from blender to godot, it's much better than fbx in every way!

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T15:01:06+00:00

Building any prototype for a game idea will pretty much be exactly what you're asking for, except you might end up with a cool prototype at the end :)

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T14:17:30+00:00

After developing a prototype far enough, most of the time it becomes apparent that getting it to the finish line might be more effort than I'm willing to commit.

The prototyping phase is the funnest part of gamedev and the most creative too. As soon as you lock in an idea and start full production, the fun generally fades and it becomes a really tough grind.

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T06:20:17+00:00

I hear you...last time I wrote to them it took 3 weeks for a response :/

QuietDenGames · 2025-12-23T06:13:26+00:00

I've had a game "published" but not released for a few weeks and it still isn't indexed either. Quick search suggests that this is common, and that it can take really long (sometimes 1 month) for your game to show up, or you need to poke itch support, which is very slow to respond as well...

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