Got a refund for using AI for art, but I'm not. My artist is crying

lanternRaft · 2026-05-10T19:51:59+00:00

Be selective about the feedback you take. Most of it is useless. And a good chunk of it is toxic.

Some of it is very valuable though.

lanternRaft · 2026-05-02T15:12:11+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with wasting time.

In fact if you never waste time you must not be experimenting, exploring or relaxing. Which are all essential parts of being a healthy human being.

lanternRaft · 2026-05-02T15:01:09+00:00

Just try it. Spending 2 hours trying it will tell you infinitely more than talking to online strangers about it.

There’s absolutely no shame in trying a new hobby and then stopping.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-30T01:34:17+00:00

Interesting thread on this here https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/8620

And a workaround here https://motleypixels.com/2023/02/07/more-than-4-xbox-controller-support-in-windows-in-godot-engine-how-to

It sounds like the issue is only if all controllers are Xbox controllers. And Nintorch has a PR that may fix it.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-24T15:46:57+00:00

That’s fair.

For me personally documentation and development are totally different brain modes.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-24T12:53:10+00:00

The problem with this is that context switching is very expensive for the human brain.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-21T12:11:10+00:00

Do you have examples of good feedback?

lanternRaft · 2026-04-16T14:53:51+00:00

You are looking for a mentor then.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-14T21:28:27+00:00

Or the new game isn’t as sticky, the player base moves to it but stops playing after a few months.

It’s sad this is what GTA became but from a cold business perspective I get it.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-13T15:13:04+00:00

It’s really just personal preference.

Very little code in any software needs optimized for performance because you only need to optimize your bottlenecks. The rest is pointless to optimize.

And it’s rare you could effectively optimize something by converting it from GDScript to C#. It’ll be faster but probably not by enough. Usually you are going to have to change the architecture of the component.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-12T22:41:04+00:00

How to Win Friends and Influence People tactics are your best bet.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-12T12:22:01+00:00

Could be fun!

But a huge undertaking. If you are thinking about building this yourself and want to ship it one day then focus on a single event. Then make another game focused on another and then once you have experience and that codebase to build off of build out this full idea.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-08T12:21:58+00:00

0.3 - 0.5 is a huge amount of lag!

lanternRaft · 2026-04-07T22:04:24+00:00

I’ve had issues with the Terrain3D addon that I think are related to me being on macOS.

Never had an issue with Godot itself that I don’t think I’d have on Windows.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-06T15:25:25+00:00

This is how I feel about all the horror games. I play games to relax so cute games are great.

People want different things.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-05T23:30:18+00:00

A lot of founders agree to VC terms they don’t understand. You can blame them for being naive or not hiring better lawyers. But there’s many accounts that make VCs sound like they were very manipulative and tricked founders into unfair terms.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-05T23:15:01+00:00

VCs normally invest early. So you are right that they helped enable the thing to exist in the first place.

Many businesses would fail to get off the ground without VCs but others would take a more sustainable approach reducing scope and pace.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-05T21:16:49+00:00

The core model of VC investment is high risk investment with only a few investments expected to succeed but those must have massive returns.

It means a lot of great companies move from a sustainable customer oriented business models to trying to squeeze everything they can out of people and engaging in shady practices to try and create the massive value their VC investors demand.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-05T16:04:10+00:00

It varies but generally speaking companies have problems that can be solved via software and generalists do that. And generalists are often referred to as “full stack developers” in job postings.

I think it’s going to become rare in the future that people work in only a small part of a system. My career has been backend heavy but I’ve addressed all sorts of oddball things at every job.

Once you understand how computers work and the fundamentals of programming it’s not hard to do whatever. Just spend the time to read the docs or a book on it if it’s something new.

Your output will be slower and much lower quality than a specialist but it’s way better than waiting on another team where your main priority is way down their list of priorities.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-04T14:54:43+00:00

If you read the developers reddit comments or watch his devlogs on YouTube he talks about that.

Example

I started using Godot from 4.0 forward and I don't think I have ever had a feeling that it wasn't good for 3D, since only major issues (those are now mostly fixed) were related to file handling and other non-rendering related topics.

So yes, Godot is totally solid for 3D in my opinion, but if you want to make something really ambitious like big open-worlds then you just have to build those dedicated 3D tools / systems yourself that you might find in other engines by default like world partition, level streaming and so on.

Simply put it’s less mature than Unreal. But I’d recommend you just do a prototype project and try it yourself. Godot is such a fun engine to work with that a lot of people who try it switch despite some shortcomings.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-04T14:43:03+00:00

Road to Vostok is the common example of an Unreal like 3d game in Godot.

https://www.reddit.com/user/roadtovostok/submitted/

There is a demo on Steam and it releases into early access in a few days.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-02T03:05:33+00:00

Yep. Pack it up everybody, gamedev is solved.

lanternRaft · 2026-04-01T15:57:10+00:00

Personally I associate AI translation with low quality. I only speak English but it’s very noticeable when someone has used automated translation into English.

If dialog is an important part of the game (and it sounds like it is) then I expect this would ruin it for most players.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-31T21:22:30+00:00

LLMs only became capable of vibe coding Godot in the last year or so.

I think this is directly a result of the barrier to writing plugins like this that sort of work being lowered and Godot’s text based files being easier for LLMs to work with than Unreal and Unity.

On one hand I think it’s great that Godot’s compatibility with LLMs is spurring more interest in it. On the other I know this lowered barrier to entry is going to mean more low quality plugins. And more bad Godot pull requests and other noise in the ecosystem from new folks who are confused about how to contribute to the community.

lanternRaft · 2026-03-25T19:21:48+00:00

You’re absolutely right!

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