I unironically love the shader and I need a tutorial for it ASAP.
As for game dev advice (as someone who is also not amazing at development):
- Particles and sounds go a long way to adding *juice* to the game (hit indicators, shatter particles, hit sounds, etc)
- Dunno how Godot works, but in Unity you can layer a camera that only sees the candy cane on top of a camera that sees everything else to prevent it from visually clipping into walls.
- Using built-in physics is great, but it also opens your game up to a lot of physics-related bugs (so for this it makes sense, but for a Mario-esque platformer, you probably want to make your own kinematic rigidbody system [dunno how that applies to Godot])
- Don't give up, and keep making goofy stuff. It helps you improve! (99% of my games never see the light of day :P)
- Don't stay up until 4 AM. It's tempting, I did it for this jam too, but it was NOT good for productivity or mental health.
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ironically, the shader was the easiest thing too add, idk how you would do it in unity but i think is the same process as in godot. basically what i do is in the screen settings for the project, i stretch the resolution, setting the screen to viewport mode i set the aspect ratio to "keep" mode, set the scale to a number between 2 and 4, and set the scale mode to fractional. I also disable the v-sync.
Also thank you for your advice, i shall be making some progress soon, and also good look to you and hopefully to your future proyects!