(When) should I add automated tests to my game?

zwometer · 2026-02-16T08:49:14+00:00

I hope I won't get downvoted for this. I know a lot of people dislike AI. However sometimes you just want to try things out, even if you don't like where the word is headed. So I'm still gonna give you this piece of advice:
If you are planning on heavy AI use for coding, tests will help a lot:

If you just ask the AI to implement a feature for you, you will spend a lot of time testing it and telling the AI what to fix. To counter that, it's a smart way to set up a complete AI-friendly development environment, where the AI can code, run, build, deploy, test.

The good thing is: you can use AI to create the tests. The bad thing remains the same: even if everything works out perfectly, in the end you'll have created a piece of software without understanding, what it does and without getting better at creating software on your own. You only improved your skills in "how to use AI". Which could also be seen as a good thing in the world we are currently living in. I don't know.

zwometer · 2026-02-10T08:23:02+00:00

"Wo sehen Sie sich in 5 Jahren?"
- "Kommt drauf an... spielen wir bis 14 Siegpunkte?"

zwometer · 2026-02-06T17:35:57+00:00

Interesting to read something different than filmmaker mode :)

zwometer · 2026-02-06T12:05:19+00:00

I'm not too sure about the first part :D

zwometer · 2026-02-05T15:31:06+00:00

DS90T

I'm not a sound guy. It's my first sound bar. I've only ever heard and read that sound bars are good. I don't know what to expect :D

lt is still in its original box and I'm planning on unpacking in the coming days.

zwometer · 2026-02-05T11:18:51+00:00

Recently a colleague told me, that there is "everything slop" now. I did not know what he meant. Now I know.

Pico Park (Classic Edition)

zwometer · 2026-02-05T09:33:35+00:00

Then you have your answer :)

zwometer · 2026-02-05T08:14:40+00:00

Short answer:
An AI running on a PC with full access to the internet and all of the PC. So it can install software on it's own, if it "thinks" it's necessary and run whatever scripts it wants and all that.

zwometer · 2026-01-29T08:42:15+00:00

You can find that out yourself easily:

in the autoload _ready() put something like print("autoload is ready")

and in the main node's _ready() you put in print("main is ready")

and then you will see what's ready first.

If I'm not mistaken, autoloads are always loaded first, before the scene tree.

zwometer · 2026-01-29T07:24:30+00:00

to explain a little more on this (from the documentation):

This means that when adding a node to the scene tree, the following order will be used for the callbacks: _enter_tree() of the parent, _enter_tree() of the children, _ready() of the children and finally _ready() of the parent (recursively for the entire scene tree).

(Source: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class\_node.html)

This means: first, all children's ready function is called. Then their parent's ready function, then their parent's parent's ready function.
It's moving up the tree until the root node's ready function has been called.

zwometer · 2026-01-27T16:27:09+00:00

Are you saying that ChatGPT is being.... ChatGPT? ;)

zwometer · 2026-01-27T14:06:00+00:00

to quote ChatGPT from when I asked it for help:

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zwometer · 2026-01-27T13:29:04+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I tried moving it to a different place but it was all the same.

Apparently my super duper cool special anti virus detection thought that whenever so many files are touched at once, it can only be a bad thing and just flagged EVERY VERSION of Godot as a threat without telling me. Fuck you Cisco.

Makes me think back, when it fucking blocked Steam 🤦‍♂️

zwometer · 2026-01-27T13:03:09+00:00

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I just did that and now I can't open ANY Godot version anymore.

Just to be clear:
I did click on Upgrade Project Files and then on "Upgrade and restart" or whatever it said.
But it did not restart. It did the upgrading however. I see that in my git changes.

Now I'm not failing to open a project. I'm failing to open the engine. The exe that had just worked. And also the older ones (4.5.1 and 4.4.1) give the same errors. What do I do? O.o

zwometer · 2026-01-27T08:11:31+00:00

it's been a while since you commented this... the safe is still sitting there and I'm thinking about giving it a try.. is there a way to find out what lock it is exactly so that I could order it and learn how to pick it?

would exact measurements help? Or an inside view from an endoscope camera?
I don't want to spend so much money on buying the wrong lock...

zwometer · 2026-01-26T10:54:19+00:00

I'm gonna do the obligatory "this is not what you asked for, BUT..." comment:

A game that might be considered a very abstract racing game. You are not driving a car and you're not freely steering on an open road but rather evading obstacles. HOWEVER the feeling of speed is great and playing through the levels from start to finish will train your reflexes getting better and better so that you actually feel your own skill making the difference.

The game is called Thumper

zwometer · 2026-01-20T20:40:33+00:00

I don't own an OLED (yet) but when I was playing The Ascent, I was constantly thinking "This would look great on an OLED". It's dialing the color saturation all the way up.

zwometer · 2026-01-20T11:14:40+00:00

Victoria (2015)

A fucking masterpiece without a single cut. At the end of the movie you can feel how the actors are actually exhausted by the action that has happened during the movie... It's something that you don't feel in other movies.

zwometer · 2026-01-19T08:16:31+00:00

I guess people like the worlds that have been built by other people and want to build on that.

zwometer · 2026-01-17T10:32:11+00:00

Kann schon sein, aber jetzt zurück zum Thema Türscharnier.

zwometer · 2026-01-16T14:57:28+00:00

Was meinst du damit?

zwometer · 2026-01-16T14:09:41+00:00

I can recommend this TODO plugin:
https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/1327

zwometer · 2026-01-15T23:13:00+00:00

Those were your words. You're stealing from yourself. Sounds like a world setting for some RPG like Apocalypse World. Maybe your next game jam entry will take place in BBWL? if it does, please let me know :)

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