Ategon, 9 months ago

Option 1

Create the gamedev_news community

Ategon, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

This is a collecting community that gets every topic in the instance (so people can go to it and then be naturally sent into the other ones in the instance) so questions in here are fine.

The main question communities in the instance though are:
!no_stupid_questions
!ask_experienced_devs
!cs_career_questions

Ategon, 9 months ago

Mostly depends on the question content

If its related to the instance topics in any way its fine here or in no stupid questions
(if related to experienced devs then it fits in ask exp devs, related to cs as a career then cs career questions)

If not then it might fit in !lifestyle

If not then !random exists as a collector for everything else and could also get a new community started for specifically that (although I assume itll fit into one of the other two categories)

Ategon, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

The C# version of the project is separate from the main one. It is possible to entirely code a game in c++ though in the main one (you can use both c++ and gdscript in it in one game interchangeably). Gdscript is a really easy language to learn though and is similar to other scripting languages (the only things you really need to learn is some keywords godot added to make coding in it easier when using things in the engine. Stuff like node names etc you would have to learn regardless of the language you’re using)

Ategon, 9 months ago

theres no official support currently but thats what W4 will become. Theres a lot of unofficial support currently though

Ategon, 9 months ago

It affects already released games as well, just the fee is only applied for new downloads in 2024 and after (but the calculation of total downloads for whether you’re hit by the fee includes everything)

Very questionable decision by them and just solidifies my switch to godot where I don’t have to pay anything (and I’m sure the vast majority of the game jam crowd will be switching over as well)

Ategon, 9 months ago

If youre talking in a community on an instance thats still federated with one of them you still don’t see their posts

Each instance stores its own copy of a post for its site members to view

Some threads in lemmy.ml when looked at from lemmy.world have a bunch of comments not visible due to this

Ategon, 9 months ago

Tabletop games are fine to post, else we would be something like video game development as opposed to game development

Always nice to see some tabletop games getting made

Ategon, 9 months ago

Heres a couple other game dev ones from programming.dev since youve got some of them there
!godot
!pico8
!roguelikedev
!voxel_dev
!game_design
!play_my_game
!destroy_my_game
!inat

edit: !haxe

Ategon, 9 months ago

Seems like thats more oriented towards development as opposed to fediverse admins but if theyre fine with admins coming in I can try talking to them. Do you know how I would contact the people running that

Ategon, 9 months ago

LemmyBB is just an alternate frontend. It is possible to not federate with any other instances though by turning federation off in the instance settings

Ategon, 9 months ago

The JavaScript singleton no longer exists in Godot 4. Instead theres something called JavaScriptBridge. Docs about it here: docs.godotengine.org/en/…/exporting_for_web.html#… but havent used it before so cant give more than that

Ategon, 9 months ago

Nice, if you want you can also say how you solved it here in case someone stubles on this post in the future

Ategon, 10 months ago

seems like its working on my pc but not my phone so might be something to do with OS

Ategon, 10 months ago

• Testing pre release versions
• Editor version to match the game for game mods
• Godot 3 vs Godot 4
• GdScript vs C#

Ategon, 10 months ago

Version manager for pre releases since you probably don’t want your main game on a pre release version but you can have a test project to test that version

Having same editor version for mods so things like bugs are the same

And when collaborating with others as well normally you stick to a certain version so you can do that while maybe doing latest version for a personal project

Ategon, 10 months ago

This was a cross post rather than a direct post to the community so it acts the same as if its posted on two different communities here like a lemmy cross post (with different threads based on the community the post is on)

If someone on mastodon commented on this version of the thread their comment would show up here

Ategon, 10 months ago

Closest thing is !mobiledev currently, I’ve just reached out to one of the iOSProgramming mods about if they want to set up here

Ategon, 10 months ago

Yeah this is the best spot atm in the instance, its a catchall community for programming things in the instance. The ios dev community is currently going through the community request process and then this can be crossposted into there

Ategon, 10 months ago

Update: we now have !ios_dev, temporarily managed by me until we get some mods for it

Ategon, 10 months ago

Haven’t found one of them say what they use. I know people have used voxel tools for some stuff though

Ategon, 10 months ago

There should only be two posts pinned currently, the two most recent engine changelogs (one for 4.04 and one for 4.2) Not sure why your instance has 5

Ategon, 10 months ago

Lemmy.world view

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/cddc9417-fcea-4942-89f4-fac819119803.jpeg

Programming.dev view

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/bdc72c67-137e-419a-97a5-a87874a84106.jpeg

I can mod a lemmy.world account and see if I can fix it from that

Ategon, 10 months ago

Looks like having an account on lemmy.world unpin it fixed the problem. Checked real quick on lemm.ee and lemmy.ml and there was still too many pinned posts on those with different amounts of pins in each.

Tried to pin and then unpin and it seems to work. Will check in all major instances to make sure they’re all fine. Might have been a bug in one version where pins didn’t federate properly

Ategon, 10 months ago

lemmy.blahaj.zone was down when I fixed it and now that theyre back up the fix isnt through to them so it is a bug

Ive reported it in the repo github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3867

Ategon, 10 months ago

1. Full-time remote

Ategon, 10 months ago

^ banned user. Spammed same troll message both in here and in various other communities

Ategon, 10 months ago

2: Functional Programming