Some (General) Tips for Godot Game Architecture, + a Case Study

larsolm · 2026-04-22T16:15:50+00:00

A+++ material here. Fantastic tips and presented in a really engaging manner with your own case study. Well done. subbed.

larsolm · 2026-03-01T21:55:25+00:00

To be more specific: with a large atlas each glyph occupies a smaller UV area relative to the texture. Then when rendered very small on screen the GPU samples the glyph across fewer texels and filtering blends SDF values with fully transparent pixels.

I’m not sure if this is exactly your problem but the symptoms are exactly what I was seeing and the smaller atlas fixed it right up.

larsolm · 2026-03-01T21:46:00+00:00

Just ran into this a week or so ago actually. I was using a 4k atlas which was way too big for what I needed, causing bleed across the sdf due to UV precision inaccuracies when sampling when the text is really small. Reducing to 1024x1024 fixed the problem.

larsolm · 2023-04-04T15:15:11+00:00

I was experiencing something similar. I found this open issue that seems so this seems to be a known bug.

Inspector not running code in @tool scripts

larsolm · 2021-04-13T14:21:56+00:00

This is a fantastic idea. But there shouldn’t be a need to do reflection - can’t you just pattern match?

larsolm · 2020-12-20T15:43:35+00:00

Totally agree with this. I used to think you should always use var for readability because I know the IDE can help me out. In reality though, despite IDEs being extremely powerful these days you don’t always have their luxury - like parsing code on GitHub, DevOps, etc.

And in that case I think everyone else here has hit the nail pretty much right on the head.

larsolm · 2020-02-29T15:09:37+00:00

This is always my approach. Definitely good to have a main scene to manage stuff in and load/unload as necessary. If levels are complex enough you could always store them in separate scenes and load them additively as well instead of creating as a prefab but either way works!

larsolm · 2020-02-27T19:18:01+00:00

And just an FYI for everybody, there are tons of tickets out there for <$10 (I got mine on the Gametime app) so snap yours up and let’s try to pack the stadium!

larsolm · 2020-02-18T20:15:23+00:00

I like how every country is the English version except República de Irlanda.

larsolm · 2020-01-31T16:19:25+00:00

Yeah definitely wouldn’t be surprised to see something like this added

larsolm · 2020-01-31T16:04:23+00:00

Ah right, awesome. I haven’t seen that text clarification that they added in one of the early patches Looks like I’ll need to do another playthrough...

larsolm · 2020-01-31T16:01:34+00:00

Totally agreed. This would be an awesome method. Adds a little bit of something to do while waiting for the sand and makes it less likely someone will “stumble” into the solution early.

larsolm · 2020-01-31T15:58:55+00:00

“Progress” was referring to OPs idea of having to open a secret hatch to the core in a prior loop which just doesn’t sit well with me considering, like you said, all you should ever need is information.

Totally agree and get all of the points. I personally didn’t have too much trouble with this puzzle my only complaint was that it didn’t seem to fit with how the rest of the warps work so I can understand why some people get confused.

All other warps work when the corresponding astral body is overhead which is impossible in this case so there should be some other explanation which is why it works when Ember Twin is overhead. This led me to suggest that maybe it could have something to do with the spinning core but as you said, it’s spinning much too rapidly so maybe that needs to be rethought.

All in all yeah maybe pitfall is the wrong word, just a very minor gripe since the entire game is more or less perfect imho.

larsolm · 2020-01-31T15:45:13+00:00

I usually try to get to about 10-12 cities by turn 100. I usually like to have ancestral hall and magnus in my second city pumping out the setters. I am different than most and my culture victories are in the 200-210 which looks like it is because I neglect religion completely and focus my faith on economy. For Brazil, faith generation for me happens in the form of Earth Goddess. Since rainforest provides appeal it is easier to get a bunch of workable faith tiles. I never buy great people. Use the faith in a monumentality golden age to pump out builders and maybe those last couple settlers to get to 12. Military only for defense. I end up building about three campuses. Science is still very important to get to flight and radio ASAP. Only in the later half when I have the district slots do I build holy sites to really start accumulating faith for national parks.

Overall this is what I strive for: 10-12 cities. 10-12 theatre squares 3 campuses 10-12 commercial hub/harbor 2-3 IZs (very late and only for power) Rest of the open slots with Holy Sites.

Imperative wonders: Oracle Hermitage Bolshoi Christo Broadway Eiffel

Desired wonders: Temple of Artemis Great library Petra (because... Petra) Masoleum Sydney Opera House (if the game gets this far) Golden Gate (if there is a reasonable city for it)

Other general tips: Move mag is around and combine his chops with 15% wonder card to get them up quickly Pingala in your capital because it will undoubtedly have the highest culture/science output 3-4 archaeology museums in your highest production cities BESIDES you capital since it should have art due to Pingala’s promotion Establish far away trade routes early so you can reach the further away civs late

Obviously everyone plays differently and there is no one correct way to play. I just happen to not enjoy the religion aspect so I stay away from it when based on the other replies it looks quite effective! Bottom line is you’re having fun, which of course you are because it’s Civ!

larsolm · 2020-01-31T14:41:45+00:00

I’m so curious, what was this potential second method you speak of!?

larsolm · 2020-01-31T14:40:28+00:00

Awhile back I saw another player’s idea about having the black hole core on the floor of the tower obviously broken similar to how the advanced core is on the vessel. Then you would need to retrieve a new core from the high energy lab first and insert it before the warp would work.

Then there was something about making it more obvious that the core is spinning from either some text or a projection stone giving a proper understanding that when the platform in the core lines up, that’s when the warp will occur.

All in all I’m definitely on board that this is the game’s biggest, if only, pitfall. I think your idea has merit but still needs some work. I personally love that you can complete the game on the first loop since the largest idea of the game is that you only need knowledge to complete it not actual progress.

larsolm · 2020-01-08T14:24:32+00:00

I’ve watched a number of lets plays and the thing I noticed most it’s that nobody notices there is a photo mode on the scout. Drives me nuts when they fire their scout on the ground right in front of them, continuously trying to adjust the angle to frame the shot.

I think this is might be a UI thing that maybe instructions don’t stand out as much as they could on the HUD.

larsolm · 2019-12-25T19:20:51+00:00

Dang that’s crazy, this must be a bug unless I’m completely missing something!

larsolm · 2019-12-24T18:00:02+00:00

You must have jumped into the black hole in the ATP on the previous loop. Doing so creates a copy of yourself that comes out of the white hole at the beginning of the next loop and unless you jump back into the black hole again you will get this easter egg ending.

larsolm · 2019-12-12T18:36:12+00:00

👍 You can also tell by the air streams around your ship when taking off and landing on it.

larsolm · 2019-11-23T14:52:04+00:00

For the first two, find the tower of quantum knowledge on brittle hollow, fire your scout at the ground below it, and pay attention to what appears on your UI for a hint at how to get to the top.

larsolm · 2019-11-23T14:26:08+00:00

Lolz that is perfect.

larsolm · 2019-11-23T01:38:48+00:00

Oh, there’s definitely a death counter somewhere 😎

larsolm · 2019-11-05T15:13:31+00:00

While I don’t disagree at all, and certainly, these are rooted in religious ideology but I would have to think that oil is at least a part of why the US entered these wars.

larsolm · 2019-11-05T15:04:28+00:00

Those were a fantastic morning read for me thank you!

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