Since you seemed to say that you hadn't before, congrats on "finishing" a game jam!
It was nice to read your reflections on what you learned and what didn't make it in. The thoughts that you had regarding improvements are the kinds of things that would address the friction points that I found while playing, such as finding no need to move around once I realised that I could just attack through Catty and feeling like there was more room to communicate the passage of time.
Hope you had a positive experience using Godot, and thanks for doing a Linux build!
Thanks for the kind words and for giving all the jam games a try (you seem unrelenting in your cause :-) ).
I enjoy Godot quite a lot, but after the experiment, I wanted to get better at Blender first. Whether it's blocking out levels or testing a "character controller" it feels quite demotivating with just blocks to work with - and considering the amount of "work I didn't understand" I had to put into just one simple custom animation I'm currently "over there", at Blender. Hoping I get the assets for a resemblance of my "dream game" ready, once Godot 4 hits :)
I've only played the games with Linux builds, so there's a lot I didn't get to!
Different people work differently - I try to stick with cubes and spheres for as long as I can before making assets, but I do find it very exciting and motivating once I switch over and start making "bespoke" stuff that pulls a game's visual identity into focus.
Best of luck with your project - hopefully you won't be waiting too long for Godot 4 if that has features that you need :)
For my "dream game" my basic game-mechanics work in "blocks and spheres" but instead of the steam punkish. third person stealth game I have in mind, it looks kinda like PacMan in 3d -> which makes building levels to human proportions very "hit and miss" and the same goes for any kind of interaction with the environment, or the enemies.
I'm not waiting for Godot4 (I'm 99% sure Godot 3 can do what I want it to do), it's just an arbitrary goal to be "good enough" at Blender (and have a working "Asset flow") once Godot 4 hit the shelves, so I'm currently putting my efforts there.
Building for (x86/AMD64)-Linux is quite easy with Godot, so I don't really get, why not more people did this (which brings me to the question whether I could simply deliver the "pck" along side the Windows/Linux executable in one package... I guess I can experiment on this another day).
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Since you seemed to say that you hadn't before, congrats on "finishing" a game jam!
It was nice to read your reflections on what you learned and what didn't make it in. The thoughts that you had regarding improvements are the kinds of things that would address the friction points that I found while playing, such as finding no need to move around once I realised that I could just attack through Catty and feeling like there was more room to communicate the passage of time.
Hope you had a positive experience using Godot, and thanks for doing a Linux build!
Thanks for the kind words and for giving all the jam games a try (you seem unrelenting in your cause :-) ).
I enjoy Godot quite a lot, but after the experiment, I wanted to get better at Blender first. Whether it's blocking out levels or testing a "character controller" it feels quite demotivating with just blocks to work with - and considering the amount of "work I didn't understand" I had to put into just one simple custom animation I'm currently "over there", at Blender. Hoping I get the assets for a resemblance of my "dream game" ready, once Godot 4 hits :)
I've only played the games with Linux builds, so there's a lot I didn't get to!
Different people work differently - I try to stick with cubes and spheres for as long as I can before making assets, but I do find it very exciting and motivating once I switch over and start making "bespoke" stuff that pulls a game's visual identity into focus.
Best of luck with your project - hopefully you won't be waiting too long for Godot 4 if that has features that you need :)
For my "dream game" my basic game-mechanics work in "blocks and spheres" but instead of the steam punkish. third person stealth game I have in mind, it looks kinda like PacMan in 3d -> which makes building levels to human proportions very "hit and miss" and the same goes for any kind of interaction with the environment, or the enemies.
I'm not waiting for Godot4 (I'm 99% sure Godot 3 can do what I want it to do), it's just an arbitrary goal to be "good enough" at Blender (and have a working "Asset flow") once Godot 4 hit the shelves, so I'm currently putting my efforts there.
Building for (x86/AMD64)-Linux is quite easy with Godot, so I don't really get, why not more people did this (which brings me to the question whether I could simply deliver the "pck" along side the Windows/Linux executable in one package... I guess I can experiment on this another day).
You can!