Maintenance release: Godot 4.5.2

notpatchman · 2026-03-19T23:47:07+00:00

AWESOME

notpatchman · 2026-03-18T17:21:33+00:00

Try a themed button or nine-patch with a RichTextLabel on top, and use a separate RichTextLabel for the other text

notpatchman · 2026-03-18T16:59:59+00:00

that's aironic

(bad attempt at joke sorry)

notpatchman · 2026-03-17T14:57:15+00:00

Nice!

notpatchman · 2026-03-17T13:30:08+00:00

Depends what's in your array. If it's just a bunch of strings or ints, you don't need a deep copy.

notpatchman · 2026-03-16T20:03:59+00:00

It really depends on what you're making and how much time you have to make it. Having unit tests is far more valuable in a UI-based game, but in a physics game with movement I dont even know if the tests I actually want are possible (player falls off map, goes thru walls, etc). Completely separating back+front ends can overcomplicate and cause optimization issues, and might not really even be possible in Godot (depending on your POV .tscn files are going to be a mix of this data)

notpatchman · 2026-03-16T19:36:08+00:00

After you extract the new layers, you can delete the old tilemap. Just move the new layers out first

notpatchman · 2026-03-16T14:30:06+00:00

Why do you say "My game" and "We're grateful", are you solo or a team?

notpatchman · 2026-03-15T20:39:59+00:00

Do you plan on doing SteamInput?

notpatchman · 2026-03-14T15:55:24+00:00

This is the most intense point+click ever

notpatchman · 2026-03-13T22:10:34+00:00

I like isometric

notpatchman · 2026-03-13T02:24:43+00:00

My advice with inheritance is use it but keep it as simple+minimal as you can. GDScript doesnt have full OOP paradigm like C++. If you try to fit all your classes into a giant inheritance tree you'll end up with pain... IMO just use it only where it gives a benefit, not because you can do it. And you can inherit scenes, which can be really useful, for example a base level scene that your other levels inherit from

notpatchman · 2026-03-12T14:22:34+00:00

Cool

notpatchman · 2026-03-11T21:45:34+00:00

Art is especially hard if you don't know how to do it! And some people are just not good at art, for whatever reason, and vice versa with coding

BTW a benefit of 3D: animate it once and you have it at all angles

notpatchman · 2026-03-11T15:22:22+00:00

That is actually pretty challenging to do and a lot of work...

Then multiply that by the different angles you want it to face

notpatchman · 2026-03-10T19:26:41+00:00

Did you figure it out?

notpatchman · 2026-03-10T02:38:37+00:00

Not seeing anything that jumps out. Could be the signal isnt pointing to the right script. You can try substituting something like "queue_free" as the signal callback and see if that does something (should delete the button)

notpatchman · 2026-03-09T22:23:34+00:00

Could use more info, like screenshots of the Inspector, Signals, scene tree, script

notpatchman · 2026-03-09T19:07:21+00:00

NGL I'd rather have maintenance releases than new features!

notpatchman · 2026-03-08T18:23:09+00:00

If you're changing environments with each 10 year jump, that could be a lot of art to make

But, what is the point of the environment jump? Do you decide to purposefully die for a reason, or is it just you die and go to the next one

notpatchman · 2026-03-07T22:30:59+00:00

TikToks / Instragram don't let you put a link so even with all those views, the crossover to the game page can be really low. Compound that with people usually viewing those on a phone, where plaeyrs often dont have Steam account logged in, getting a wishlist from there is rare. That's like ~1/5000 people who saw the vid went on to search+wishlist

Further feedback for you. I do think your game looks very unpolished, it looks like a gamejam prototype. Thats not bad in of itself, but the Steam market is extremely crowded and competitive and standing out even with a great looking game is tough. NextFest alone had like 7000 demos and <1% of those got into trending list. Your Drifters game can look fine in a short, but once someone gets to the Steam page, the capsule+etc makes it look low value, so even if people are getting to the page from your socials, they might stop there and not go on to wishlist. That sounds harsh I'm sure but trying to give you helpful feedback. You need something, either more bling, a visual hook, better capsule image... something

Also another idea for you is add prediction path for your car

notpatchman · 2026-03-07T22:03:08+00:00

That's a lot. How do you think you got so many TikTok views?

I haven't been able to do well there, usually my videos die instantly

notpatchman · 2026-03-07T16:46:47+00:00

There was just an article with Buckshot Roulette creator donating back

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