Oh god, I am using #godot 3 after a long time on Godot 4 (had to work on an old project) and it is sooo horrible once you've gotten used to all the new features and especially the enhancements in typing. (both the text editor and the linting and static typing have gretly enhanced...)

Today I published the second DevLog about my journey from a VFX focused senior trainer to indie game development on my (free) Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/indiegame-devlog-138667921?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Have a great weekend

No sound yet, but imagine this going "bang... bang... bang... bang..."

The Sonic and the Secret Rings remake called Project Reignition is incredibly impressive (and it's made in Godot)! https://github.com/Kuma-Boo/project-reignition

#sonicthehedgehog #godot #indiedev

I want to move the behavior trees and state from my actor nodes to the autoload. Gotta figure out a few things like the schema for the data, the format for the node IDs, what data I'll need to copy from the nodes themselves to the state resources.

Does anyone know if there's a way from #GDScript to scan and register all the nodes of a certain type at startup, regardless of whether or not they're in the tree? I'd like to move the node registration code out of _init(), even though by using the node path I can be reasonably sure that I'm not going to have namespace issues as nodes are freed and loaded.

I've been working my through the Godot Shader Bible, which I purchased a little while back. It seemed like a good "get my feet wet" kind of book but perhaps not as beginner friendly as I might have hoped. Regardless I am making due and being a software engineer for 15 years helps.

I took a graphics course in college and shaders were kind of the new mysterious frontier. It is neat to see how powerful they've become (and also I don't have an exam on it later)

Just made a new character.

Google has failed me. How do I take multiple lights into consideration in a #Godot node shader? I don't see any nodes that seem like they might work.

Today I tested the current version of my game on the SteamDeck. The deck is my target specs for the game.

Runs smoothly at 50+ fps with 700+ enemies on the screen. (in the final game it will be ~200 enemies)

For the test I had to also added controller support and ui mapping for the controller.

Seeing the game run on the deck made it feel way more real somehow. The magic of mobile gaming devices.

The building units of the world are no longer islands, but 32x32 chunks.

This makes for more interesting shapes and a better distribution of landmasses.

Performance? Absolutely terrible!

This may not look like much, but I have now laid the foundation for THE WHOLE GAME.

I had to think about how it works architecturally for quite a while. I am now using "overlays" to create interactables based on the skills and traits in play for any given scene.

Steam has stopped counting how much I use Godot, happened to anyone else also? @godotengine
I know it’s not really important, but still fun to see!:)

Looks like 3000 words weren't enough to talk about code, so here comes another 1500 words to expand a little bit more on the topic. This time around, the State Machine, and some interesting thoughts and use cases. Interested in you?

https://jeferson.me/blog/2025/09/09/state-machine

Just added some new scene transitions to my game Samory.

This took a while but feels much better than the old fade in/out effect. Keep in mind that this effect is only visible on desktop. Mobile will still use he old effect to get higher fps.

Currently updating the Arch package, itch is already up to date.

Going to release a little side project (a collab with a pixel artist) this week. It's a "jam sized" game that I put a little bit too much work into.

Let's go for an #introduction! We are two siblings making games as a hobby.

We use #Godot and free software to make our games. You can try them at itchio: https://buendiagames.itch.io/

We're looking forward to connecting with cool people making games!! We'll be posting updates on our little projects (hopefully)!

OK, ripped out all the skill logic and replaced everything from the ground up with the new leveling system, and created the concept of traits that govern it.

It might be hard to tell, but this pencil has dynamic shading, reacting to the rotation, to match the general implied ambient light source.

I'm playing fast and loose with scale, but try to keep lighting consistent!

OK, #godot question:

I have resources. _init gets automatically called, but it doesn't seem like the resource actually exists when it is called? The values are all empty, even if the resource is defined as a file ahead of time.

Is there a function for resources that gets called in a more useful way, like _ready in nodes?

I’m excited to share the little reactive programming library I built for #csharp and #godot, although it will work in any c# project.

This will guarantee deterministic execution and defer mutations when executing bindings to guard against reentrancy issues.

https://github.com/chickensoft-games/Sync