Using #Godot Tweens to get the asteroids to move on their own, without having to maintain code to manually update all the asteroids' positions, for the low cost of not being able to adjust the motion later \o/

#indiedev #typing

Instantiating bullet scenes and tweening them towards the asteroid, and only removing the asteroid when the last bullet hits it!

#WIPWednesday #indiedev

Now that the word disappears when the last bullet hits, rather than when you finished typing it, let's colour the word green as a visual indicator that it's finished!

#gamedev #typinggame

Correctly typing characters shoots bullets, so now we also need typos showing up. Implemented as red characters flying away, also works as indicating the current active word.

#gamedev #indiedev

Took me like an hour to get the hearts to line up in the HBoxContainer thing and be spaced properly... Layout in #Godot is confusing, sometimes clicking the anchor shortcuts makes the node move around in the parent, and sometimes it just does nothing O_o

Anyway, there's a fail condition! It's a real game now right?

Quick WPM display, layout anchor stuff is weird so just hard-coded position for now lol, who needs to play in any other resolution!

WPM = CPS * 60 / 6
Sources say "average word length" is 5 but I mostly have longer words so I guess 6 should work?

#typing #asteroid

WOW! Sound effects do so much 😲
Also splitting the Line2D into a bunch of pieces and yeeting them away as an explosion effect!

#gamedev #typing

Being able to draw_line and draw_string on a Node is nice, managed to throw together a better end screen with a line chart of your #typing WPM over time!

#indiedev

Oh my god, I finally figured out one of the reasons why layouting things in #Godot is terrible. In order to right-align or center text, you need to constrain the text to a specific width! What‽

Without a width, text grows towards the right, unbounded by any maximum size. That's how left-align works. So why can't it grow towards the left, aka right-align, unbounded? Or grow both ways, for center-align?

Why is having a fixed width a requirement for center and right-align, but not left-align?

Anyway, finally got the WPM display to be right-aligned, by providing a width...

Also found the ShaderMaterial and added a subtle starry background with some twinkling stars 🌟

#screenshotsaturday #typing

Also added an audio cue for finishing a word, so you can look at the next word whilst finishing the current one, and still know that it got typed correctly!

#gamedev #typing

This feels like a hack, but it seems to work, creating a SubViewport around an object to take a "screenshot" of it into a texture and then multiple sprites with its own region of the texture == word go boom 💥
But getting used to how #Godot thinks, I probably missed a "split Node into multiple segments" button somewhere :P

#indiegame #typinggame

Splash screen, main and settings menu, and fancy transition into gameplay! 🤩

There's still a very slight frame glitch when #Godot loads the next scene, even when doing `await get_tree().process_frame` just before switching. Probably not possible to get rid of?

#gamedev