Adana K. Washington

Ah, fuck it.

We're doing a One Piece rewatch until my brain resets.

Send meshi.

Yeah... So that was a bust. The system works just fine, but not in the way that I want it to. And my "vision" for it is way too complicated. But at least I made some nice UI. 🤷

Gonna eat some noodles and decide how my next method of mental torture.

Send Mountain Dew.

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No problem! It almost makes me want to download the latest build of 4.7 and try it, even though I know it's going to change again.

Thank you!

Good morning, fellow weirds!

After sleeping on it, I realize that I'm overcomplicating -- and bloating -- the system I'm trying to build in the name of "realism," when what I really need to do is to flatten and narrow the focus.

Ugh.

Send ramen.

Let's game dev.

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You ever look back at one of you abandoned game projects and think, "Dammit, I really want to play that"?

But you can't, because you didn't finish it.

Sigh.

Makes me very sad.

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Yeah, it does. But apparently they removed the ability to use a predefined enum in the export, so you'd have to type out the enum twice.

And I don't think I'd ever make a game that called for the use of bitflags -- I doubt my little card games would ever be so robust. I just think they seem neat.

I've been working on this system using utility as a basis. But now that I'm fleshing it out, I'm thinking that I may need to invert the whole thing in order to fit what I'm trying to do.

But I don't have the mental capacity for that right now, so...

Send Mountain Dew.

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Oh. My. God.

Do you know how excited this makes me?!?!?

Do you!!

No problem!

Okay, I ended up doing way more UI than I needed to.

But in my defense, shut up.

Now I'm *really* gonna work on the actual system I'm supposed to be building. Even though the flickering tooltips will bug me the whole time.

Send Mountain Dew.

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I really want to understand how to use bitflags in #Godot. But no matter how many times I read up on it, it just bounces right off.

Conceptually, I get it. But trying to implement it just... I don't even know.

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I would love to be added to the pack, if that's alright.

Oh, my! Thank you for the mention!!

Alright, fellow weirds!

While I do want to make some changes (read: do some scope creep), I have all of the UI needed to display the data.

Now it's time to figure out how to generate the data.

Here's hoping my head doesn't explode from all the fun.

Let's game dev.

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That can be true.

Oh, UI is hard for me, too. I generally have no idea what I'm doing. That's why I usually spend hours finding and studying inspiration before I start.

Me, working on this prototype: "Since I'm getting sleepy, I'll just work on UI tonight, and start on the hard/fun parts tomorrow with fresh eyes."

Also me: "How the fuck is it already 0400!?!?!"

Send Mountain Dew. Gonna need it when I wake up.

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This is turning out to be a rather interesting little project.

Of course, I had to make it weird and give it a story. But whatever. It'll give me something to use when I actually start testing things.

Send Mountain Dew.

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Konnichiwa, fellow weirds!

Today's been... a day.

But I wish to make a little proof of concept for an idea that I have.

Could be something that I can build into something bigger if it works out. Or it could become another dust collector.

Who knows?

Let's game dev.

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After all that talk this morning, I only managed to pull together a new boilerplate project. And now there's a storm going on that keeps knocking out our power.

Maybe this is a good time for me to do some work on paper.

Send Mountain Dew.

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Happy Saturday, fellow weirds!

I only slept for three hours, but I'm inspired and I think I've finally found a way to do a thing that I've been trying -- and failing -- to do for years. *Years*, I tell you!

Send Mountain Dew. Shit's about to get weird.

Let's game dev.

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Omigod, I *love* the readability of this! Very cool!

Oh, gawd, I know! I kinda want to go through it and delete most of it. But that just feels weird. So it just sits there.

Shaming me. 😅

Right?! There are so many things I want to try to make, just because they look cool and fun to play.

That's what I usually end up doing -- for better, or for worse. 😅

I would if I could, but my games are all, like, 98% UI. And I want to get better at it, so...

But wiring all of it up is very, very annoying.

There are many times when I'll look at a game and think, "How did you do that? I want to figure out how to do that, too!" And then I end up with a new project that will end up collecting dust.

And it's about to happen again! 😀

I am who I am, dammit. Don't judge me.

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It seems my one of my habits is to work on UI when I'm lost in a game project.

I have most of my screens set up for the entire game, and not one bit of actual gameplay.

But at least I wrote *some* code today. So there's that.

Send ramen.

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