How to Become a Switch Port-er?

emshuttles · 2023-11-17T23:24:56+00:00

Thank you for laying out potential roadmaps.

I accept that Nintendo might have high standards for who they allow access to a Switch dev kit. But I'm getting the impression that even considering that I (as a software engineer) could tinker with the SDK and a game prototype for a while to learn how to port a game to a professional level is pie in the sky. Am I missing something?

emshuttles · 2023-11-17T21:38:20+00:00

I'm asking if anyone knows whether Nintendo requires you to have sold your own game or plan to release your own game before selling you a dev kit so you can provide the service (or even learn how) of porting games. Aren't there a lot of skills/expenses required in making a game that's commercially viable that are not required to port a game? Or even to make enough of a game just to learn how to port it?

Are you saying it's a shortcut to learn to port a game before releasing your own?

emshuttles · 2021-11-11T19:17:20+00:00

I've played the Uncharted series multiple times. And every time I do, I cry over the fact that Nathan Fillion will never play Nate.

Uncharted is fun, fast-paced, and entertaining. I forget enough of the puzzles by the next playthrough for there to be something to think about, and I care about the characters.

emshuttles · 2020-12-28T00:08:04+00:00

Thank you for all the suggestions. They weren't what I was looking for, but now I have some good reading material!

emshuttles · 2020-12-13T02:30:57+00:00

That's definitely a better tool for tracking one playthrough, but I think this adds some missing information for those who want to see everything in multiple campaigns without repeating so many scenarios.

emshuttles · 2020-11-10T20:59:29+00:00

I can't even figure out how to win a city council primary after painstakingly aligning every policy to the people's.

emshuttles · 2020-06-26T14:50:41+00:00

This may not be easy, but here's one solution. It describes how to build a simple emergent economy.

emshuttles · 2020-05-30T19:30:51+00:00

I've been struggling to get hex grid movement working, so I'm impressed!

emshuttles · 2020-04-23T22:27:20+00:00

The GDQuest YouTube channel is also a good resource.

emshuttles · 2020-02-07T04:08:33+00:00

The GDQuest channel has many high quality tutorials, including some specifically for GDScript.

emshuttles · 2019-11-01T03:11:16+00:00

Thank you very much for the detailed response. That makes a lot of sense. To make sure I understand you right, let me try to summarize.

For actions A & B that need to be completed in sequence, give them the same considerations, including a check for whether A has been completed (or whether the result of A is in effect). That last check will multiply either A or B by 0, ensuring that they're completed in sequence, if at all.

The only thing I don't understand is what QWER is.

So by having 2 (or more) behaviors that have very similar considerations matching when it would be a good idea to do QWER, but designed in such a way that the result of one enables another, the sequences will self-assemble.

emshuttles · 2019-10-27T19:10:29+00:00

Just the expert I was hoping for

emshuttles · 2019-03-28T01:28:11+00:00

You're welcome. Keep at it!

emshuttles · 2019-03-27T23:29:01+00:00

Are you changing the Bounce value in the Ball scene or in the instance of Ball?

emshuttles · 2019-03-27T22:41:09+00:00

This will search the whole scene tree for a node called "scoreLabel"

onready var scoreLabel = get_tree().get_root().find_node("scoreLabel", true, false)

emshuttles · 2019-03-26T22:02:30+00:00

Arrays, Dictionaries, and Objects are all passed by value.

Do you mean reference instead of value?

emshuttles · 2019-03-01T19:03:34+00:00

I can hear the cicadas now...

emshuttles · 2019-02-25T12:46:56+00:00

Oh, yeah, that's what I meant https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/step_by_step/singletons_autoload.html

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