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What did you do well this week that made you smile.

This thread is for the little wins that didn't get their own post.

Let's all pat each other on the back.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've picked up game dev as a hobby again. Trying with Godot engine and I've got a character that can run and jump around.

A small success, but I'm happy to have my hobby back.

[–] TastyIron 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a fellow hobbyist game dev I've just completed the doughnut tutorial to start learning blender.

You might be interested in this community [email protected]

[–] TastyIron 1 points 1 year ago

Not yet. Just playing around

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm subscribed there. I was browsing it last night actually haha.

Are you working on anything at the moment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice one.

If you are thinking of a microblogging (Mastodon/Calckey) presence then you could try easymode.im.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link!

I've been using Mastodon more since we last discussed it actually. I did sign up to Calckey but just aren't finding the same content.

I was thinking about microblogging it on the gamedev mastodon, but maybe I'll do it in that Calckey server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome, keep at it. I have a on/off relationship with game dev, as my day job is programming so it often feels like a bus man's holiday to spend more hours at the keyboard, but the results are fun. Currently trying out some old ideas with latest Godot. Much easier than SDL and writing everything myself in c++ which I've done before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, spend all day WFH at my desk to then spend the evening doing the same. It's just not appealing some times.

I've always used Unity but was never a fan of it. I started my latest project in Godot and cannot believe how easy of a time I'm having with it. Unity felt like a chore in comparison somehow.

What's SDL?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SDL is Simple Direct-media Layer (I think) and is a low level c++ frame work for writing games and multimedia applications. I wrote everything from the main loop to sprite animation classes, smoothing, serialisation, menus etc. etc. Great fun to have total control but also a pain, so Godot is a joy though I might investigate c++ to supplement gdscript as I'm not really into the python style (yet). Have a look at SDL here https://www.libsdl.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Will check it out. Thanks for the explanation!