🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house
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@moopet i have many of the same reservations with all engines, Godot included
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I haven't properly announced this before, but given the light of today's events, here we go: my game engine is ✨open source✨
if you're ever feeling experimental or just want to dive in a lot of nerdy code, here it is: https://github.com/isadorasophia/murder
it's fun and it's free and it's dotnet 7!!! (soon to be 8)
that is to say, i wish there were more beginner oriented engines that focused only on getting things up on the screen quickly and didn't bother so much with optimization, deployment and extensibility (Processing is a great example of this) and professional engines were closer to what they used to be: just collections of low level libraries that made the job of rolling your own tech accessible to people who already know how to code (this is my current personal goal)
i strongly believe that it is impossible to build a tool that is both friendly to beginners and useful to professionals. the needs are on the opposite parts of a pretty wide spectrum. i feel like this is doubly so in the game engine space and the confusion between the two needs has turned every engine into a soup that is too much for a beginner and too inflexible for professional development
the worst thing Unity ever did was convincing a generation of game developers that rolling your own engine takes more time and effort than dealing with their bullshit
i cannot tell you how many times in the past 10 years someone poked fun at me for writing my own engine instead of just using Unity so every time they do something predictably shitty i can't help but feel that sweet sweet schadenfreude
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We are excited to introduce a major improvement in funding the development efforts of the #GodotEngine – the Godot Development Fund!
Help us secure stable funding and ensure the longevity of the project 💙
forgot that Patrick Stewart holds the royal pug while defending the palace from the Harkonnen attack in the original Dune
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rewrote my small C# game library, gonna maybe make some stuff in it
https://github.com/NoelFB/Foster
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my dog takes playtime so seriously i can't even look at him funny without him going to assemble all his toys
space skyrim is good, actually
i really hope that there will be stable open source LLMs available in the future because i've come to rely on chatGPT quite a bit over the past few months (mostly for looking up API information and algorithm implementations). it has freed up a tremendous amount of my time as a programmer
aint no bugs quite like raw socket programming bugs
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i want more cool voice notifications from my computer. it's such a sci-fi trope and yet the only thing that does it currently is my headphones telling me their battery status
@neatchee i fixed it! for some reason it was appending the bucket name to the URL if the bucket name was already in the s3 hostname, but if it wasn't in there, it was correctly inserting it into the hostname instead
@neatchee hmm, putting anything other than a . results in a broken URL as it makes it into a // or a /// where /./ seems to work at least on the web
@neatchee yea, everything. i had to set my bucket name to . in the config as it was using s3_bucket/bucket_name/file paths and it's just s3_bucket/file for the digital ocean spaces so I suspect it may be something with how ./ in urls is handled by apps?
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