Gina HäußgeIt may not look like much, it's in fact only the @godotengine 2d game tutorial "Dodge the Creeps", but hey, I wrote(-ish) a first game in Godot (and apart from a GLUT based Snake clone in university also my first game ever) AND got it exported and running on the #SteamDeck, in just under 2h!
Experimenting with the physics engine, did something terribly wrong while attempting to spawn bullets, and now my little spaceship looks like it is laying eggs. Ah well. It's Easter! 🐇
Well, no more egg laying, some nice pewpewpew and Asteroid-like controls, some shot pushback, wrap around and SFX. Gravity of the planets isn't working for some reason that I have not been able to figure out, but all in all I learned a TON today thanks to the tutorial and then my own experiments.
More learning tomorrow 😊
*edit* forgot to add, the stuttering is only in the screen recording (no idea why), the game itself doesn't do that.
Physics engines: The gift that keeps on giving 😂😂😂
In the end I managed to fix this hilarious bug and finish another game, this time a pong clone (what a surprise). Code and SFX by me, graphics provided by my partner, music a CC0 Synthwave song called Flux Capacitor found online.
Used the physics engine and also played a bit with 2D lighting. Might return to this to play around a bit more with gameplay adjustments ^^
Still struggling with syncing issues when recording these, excuse the small sfx delay please.
I gotta say, I really enjoy running into bugs during game development, way more funny than what I usually run into when working on OctoPrint ^^
And with that, good night for now.
Stark@foosel What other projects do you publicly work on? Would love to just see where your creativity has taken you?
@Stark9837 Nothing gamedev related yet, currently on a four day learning run to get my foot into the door for the first time. The thread contains my journey 😊
Chris@foosel @Stark9837 how’s your opinion about Godot so far? I have some awesome ideas for games (mainly tycoon/simulation style) but can’t decide on which engine to learn. Feels like such an investment to commit to a specific engine :D
@ctm @Stark9837 Pretty great! There are still some issues in the freshly released version 4 and a lot of the tutorials out there are still for 3.x, which means I have to work around some stuff, but it still feels like a good decision to go with 4 from the get go.
The 2d tutorial was great to get an idea of what is where & how things fit together, docs all in all are amazing and making me feel a bit self conscious about OctoPrint's 😅
So far can only recommend it! And it's FOSS!
@foosel @Stark9837 Thanks, might be something to check out over the long weekend :)