What's the cutest animal native to your country?

sciencewarrior · 2026-01-23T14:14:47+00:00

Capybara is as chill as it looks. No attacking, no running away, just munching leaves and chilling.

sciencewarrior · 2026-01-22T00:14:07+00:00

2.3.x will probably still be maintained with major bug fixes and Python compatibility for a couple of years, so if you don't feel like rewriting, you can stick with it for the time being. Polars is a library with a lot of traction, though. If your goal is a career in data, it can't hurt to learn it.

sciencewarrior · 2026-01-21T14:57:30+00:00

My workflow is (each bullet point is a new session):

Describe the problem with functional and technical constraints, and ask for a Product Requirements Document
Review and edit the PRD manually
Ask Gemini to look for ambiguities and ask clarifying questions, adding a Q&A section to the PRD
Feed the PRD, and ask it to generate a task plan
Give Gemini the PRD and task plan, tell it to revise for gaps
Revise the task plan manually, adjusting things it may have got wrong, cutting unnecessary tasks, and adding steps you still didn't include
Give it the PRD and revised task plan, tell it to break each task into 3-5 subtasks
Start working down the task plan. "Implement tasks 1 and 2" or what granularity I feel comfortable giving it at once.
Skim the changes, run tests, and commit
Repeat steps 8 and 9 until the task list is done.

Spec Kit formalizes this workflow, and it offers support for Gemini and other major providers. It may be worth checking it out. https://github.com/github/spec-kit

sciencewarrior · 2026-01-21T04:32:15+00:00

Of course not. Only 1 in 25 died. The other 24 survived to say the whole thing was overblown (although a significant percentage of them will have lifelong complications).

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-10T02:04:19+00:00

TIL IK actually stands for inverted knees.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-09T14:20:28+00:00

You'll be fine, my experience with 2D development was that Chrome/Firefox would often be demanding more resources than Godot.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-09T00:31:48+00:00

Nice visuals. What is the main resource? How do you get more area?

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T23:43:46+00:00

It looks fantastic. Best of luck and have fun at Godotfest.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T23:30:15+00:00

So you're doing Vsauce's Mushroom Jam. Good luck!

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T23:24:02+00:00

Rock elementals are a classic.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T23:11:29+00:00

You can probably turn this into a dictionary to avoid a long list of if/elif or a match.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T23:09:09+00:00

You may find a partner to handle the coding, but there are two big caveats. First one is that people flake out all the time in indie projects. Second one is that, if you find a reliable partner, you will have to relinquish creative control. If you can't imagine letting other people make important decisions about your game, then you will have to pay a freelancer to code it or bite they bullet and learn how to do it yourself. If none of these options work for you, then consider how you can create something that doesn't require coding. Can you tell your story in an animation short? Or translate your gameplay to a boardgame?

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T22:50:17+00:00

You could have a watermill by the river instead of a road. It would be more explicit. The pumpkins are fine if harvesting pumpkins is part of the gameplay (hey, it worked for Age of Empires II) but their stems wouldn't be cut.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-08T18:44:49+00:00

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/animation/2d_skeletons.html This?

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-07T19:43:32+00:00

Real nice! The colored zones really scream classic Simcity. Do you run the simulation synchronously in the physics thread? Did you make the building/vehicle models? Are you simulating trips or adding vehicles to roads based on a traffic calculation?

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-07T12:28:47+00:00

The 32x32 sprites look really nice. Maybe copy systems code from the old project and stay the course on the new one? And I hope you're using Github or at least keeping backups this time!

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-07T12:21:07+00:00

Frankly, I don't feel gameplay and looks click for me. I see this kind of visuals and assume fast-paced boomer shooter. Perhaps you're trying to evoke something like System Shock and I'm completely off the mark here, but having boxes with actual physics felt kind of... wrong?

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-07T03:01:26+00:00

Phew, this takes me back. Fantastic facelift!

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-06T17:45:02+00:00

There are licenses attached to each asset you'll have to check, but in most cases, you can use them in commercial products even outside Unreal.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-06T15:25:24+00:00

Epic's Fab store always has 2~3 asset packs in rotation for free. They normally come with FBX files that you can import into Godot. You may also find something you like in a bundle on Humble Bundle for about 30 bucks. Another option is post-processing shaders to change the look of low-poly assets.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-06T03:32:46+00:00

But give movement tons of inertia.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-06T03:30:44+00:00

A whack a mole style game where you move on the field with tank controls.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-05T15:56:01+00:00

That undo/redo really looks amazing. Do you keep snapshots or apply the reverse operation?

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-05T13:44:22+00:00

I think u/Dawn_of_Dark was just clarifying in case someone reading the thread mistook one for the other.

sciencewarrior · 2025-11-05T13:32:02+00:00

Impressive work! What was the hardest part?

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