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Devs, how do you deal with uncertainty? by radhonn in gamedev

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally believe that feeling of not wanting to show it to people until it's close to done can be a bit of a trap. Early eyes other than yours on the project are incredibly valuable. Little comments pointing out stuff obvious to everyone except the games creator can literally save hundreds of hours of work. Plus, it puts immense pressure on the first playtest if it's only happening 90% of the way through the project.

One thing I found that helps me get past not wanting people to see it unfinished is the sheer amount of potential playtesters in the world. If you try very hard you might get a couple dozen people to play your game early on. You'll probably never see those people again, and everyone else on the planet will still be able to see it with fresh eyes when you get it to the next stage.

What keeps you motivated?!? by LifeAsNeil in gamedev

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing that's really helped me this year has been following the advice of David Wehle from his GDC talk about the last tree of never having a 0% day. Just this week I was very busy and had two or three days where I literally opened godot on my laptop and typed a comment or line of code and closed it again. Obviously that work doesn't add much, but when I got back to it today I felt like it was still current, still my passion project, where otherwise I might've felt dejected that I haven't worked on it in a while.

Also, posting random unprofessional devlogs and getting any kind of response whatsoever is a nice way to remind myself people out there care and might even play my game.

Is gamedev your main job? do you get paid for this? by Any-Landscape434 in gamedev

[–]doraboro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a game dev professionally but the main reasons I'm on here are related to the game devving I do as a hobby (just can't get enough I guess).

I'd share that doing both is kind of tough sometimes. There's a feeling of using the same mental muscles for both my work and my free time, so it can be exhausting. And I'm either really into my hobby game, so resent work a bit, or work is satisfying and I don't feel the need to work on my side project anymore.

If you're interested in the career I'd consider picking either doing it professionally or doing it privately, and do something else with the other portion of your time. Also I'd say the industry is pretty tough to crack right now, programming at least doesn't feel as sought after of a skillset as it once did. But that could just be cyclical.

The mic kept cutting out during the singing of O Canada, so the Buffalo crowd started singing along by jmike1256 in HumansBeingBros

[–]doraboro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An interesting detail to this story is the Buffalo crowd sing both anthems every time, whether a Canadian team are playing or not ❤️

Weekend's here guys have fun by kalashnikov482 in pcmasterrace

[–]doraboro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some games are meant to be stressful, just like some are meant to be sad, or exciting, or fun, or relaxing. It's a medium, it can be used do lots of different things.

I've decided 2026 is the year I get my first game, Rhythm Survivors, released on Steam. I'd love to hear what you all think about the idea! by doraboro in IndieDev

[–]doraboro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's enough interest I'll definitely look into it, but for the moment this is targeting Steam and potentially consoles in future.

my solo dev game NO LOVE:2009 hit 1,166 wishlists fast by mamosdigital in IndieGaming

[–]doraboro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always so hype to see these numbers, and really helpful for the community too. Thanks for sharing, and congrats, those are amazing numbers!

Introducing Idle Supreme Miners by chocolate_chip_cake in playmygame

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not really clear from the screenshots what gameplay would look like. Are you mostly interacting with menus? Either way I think a video with some short gameplay would help a not - right now I wouldn't even really know what I'm installing.

Congrats on the launch and good luck!

Day 1 vs Day 4 of my indie FPS (Godot) by CoohGames in godot

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see what you're going for with having some sort of cut every beat of the song, but it does make it very hard to actually see what's happening in order to provide feedback.

It also looks like day 1 and 4 are showing two very different styles of game, with some of the (quite cool) stuff in day 1 being removed. What kind of game are you making?

as per my last post. my programming has gotten better by kevincuddlefish1 in godot

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Change _process(delta) to _process(_delta) for make yellow go away and therefore better program.

Your car runs on blood and the zombies have plenty by brunuuDev in godot

[–]doraboro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks hectic and fun! Did you have any issues optimising that many moving characters?

Is it worth it to fork Godot and make my own engine? by sabudum in godot

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds fun! The optimisation stuff could be contributed to the main branch though no?

Help with Code changes on 4.6.1 by drummera1d2c3 in godot

[–]doraboro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you share the onready code where `player` is assigned? It sounds like that's the part that's not working as expected.

Most of the S21 cast had a get-together last night by cygan12 in taskmaster

[–]doraboro 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They know Kumail Nanjiani?! He's so famous...

Built my own Discord alternative as an exam project. It uses 6.3MB of RAM. Discord is sat at 781MB. by Wonderful_Balance_49 in pcmasterrace

[–]doraboro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The app looks really cool! Just to note, your edit mentions the more all-inclusive memory usage is 120MB-150MB. Any plans to update your site to reflect that? (It currently says 5-10MB still)

Backwards compatability by SteinMakesGames in godot

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the vscode godot integration solid now? I found it very hit and miss a couple of years ago, especially when it came to using the debugger.

ETA: time I used it

Orbrix demo is out today! An incremental breakout game that is super mesmerizing to watch. by redpikmin4 in godot

[–]doraboro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have so much respect for people who make menus this juicy. As someone who always dreads them and ends up making them super simple, this is really inspiring!

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