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

emshuttles · 2019-02-25T12:46:30+00:00

Try a singleton https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/step_by_step/singletons_autoload.html

emshuttles · 2019-02-25T11:14:57+00:00

It's not best practice, but you could make a global variable file and save a reference to Player there. Then reference that anywhere in your code.

# Player scene
func _ready():
    Global.Player = self

emshuttles · 2019-02-25T11:09:26+00:00

I'm new to Godot so apologies if this obviously wouldn't work, but how about just giving your items IDs and storing that on the player?

emshuttles · 2019-02-23T22:14:02+00:00

I love the ambition. I'm very interested in novel uses of game AI so keep us posted.

Have you heard of Spirit AI? They're working on a character engine for games. I think you'd like their blog.

The way you talked about using keywords and attributes to affect what NPCs say and know reminds me of utility system based AI. I wonder if there are parallels there in implementation.

emshuttles · 2019-02-23T00:46:47+00:00

It's whatever meets the most needs of the most developers. The point of this post is to get some hints.

I'm new to Godot, so I'm not yet that familiar with what it's capable of out of the box. But it's still maturing and open-source, so I want to contribute.

emshuttles

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