There's still some "I don't understand how #GDevelop multiplayer works" happening, but I'm starting to get my Smash Bros-style damage system in place. In lieu of having instance variables on the player objects track the damage and hope I'm picking the instance correctly, I've put it in an array for the 4 players. Player 1's damage is tracked just fine. Player 2's will increase, but immediately zero out. Not sure if this is because something is owned by the host and it's messing things up, or if there's an errant action in one of my events that's making things not work properly. Will have to experiment. Still learning!

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I think that's about enough #gamedev tinkering for tonight. In my little Disc Wars prototype, each player can throw a disc (only up to the number of discs they are carrying), and it will bounce nicely off of other discs and players, and nudge itself towards the player on its return trajectory. Once the player catches a disc, they can throw it again. All this syncs with the multiplayer tools. Great!

However, I'm not quite getting the hang of picking instances using ownership in multiplayer. The sub-event for "PlayerCharacters colliding with Disc" when you own the disc works fine. The one where you don't own the disc doesn't. And I'm not entirely sure why! Will need to do some reading.

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#LoveMakeShare for May 3, 2026:
It’s the start of a new week! What’s on your workbench?

Home repairs are the first priority right now. Last week was kitchen plumbing, today is back fence, rest of the week will be incrementally patching the kitchen ceiling from when we had flooding a while back. (Fortunately there was no long-term damage there, except for the inspection & ventilation holes I cut at the time!)

Other than that, I am playing around with #GDevelop again, tinkering with a multiplayer game idea I had ages ago. It's inspired by Tron and uncreatively named Disc Wars. A 2D brawler-style disc combat game with some Smash Bros-style mechanics. Meant to be fast-moving and have short rounds, so you can bang out a best-of-five without it overstaying its welcome.

So this doesn't look like much, but it is evidence of learning! I updated #GDevelop today and putzed with the multiplayer tools for a minute and have figured out how to spawn a playable character for each player connected to the lobby. I am fighting it a little bit to spawn a playable character *by name* which will be necessary to allow for character selection, but I'll figure it out.

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I got the camera mechanics working, the camera is now following the player object on the screen

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