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some_lame_kid

Anyone here have experience staying up too late? Any wise words for my now consistent habit of staying up until 9 am and deciding to not sleep at least 3 times a week?

DaveTheCoder

https://godotforums.org/discussion/26791/midnight-programming

cybereality

For text processing, it is better in while loops rather than for. Also, you could use RegEx to simplify it greatly.

cybereality

@Kojack I think I might have figured out the 3D mouse support, I created a new thread so we can discuss there. https://godotforums.org/discussion/28882/3dconnexion-space-mouse-support-in-godot/p1

fire7side

So, I'm playing "To the Moon" and it's pretty good. I have to get used to walking around those strangely shaped areas. I think my brain kicked in to it now, cause it's 2d but not quite straight overhead. Anyway, the gist of it is these memory makers have to traverse back into the early parts of this guys life and change it to what he wants when he dies. Kind of a strange premise. Yeah, please let me die with false memories. But, of course, it's just a device to slowly reveal this guys life and mistakes he made, etc. The only thing I don't care for is so far I just travel backward in a linear fashion, so it almost feels like turning the pages in a book. The use of time travel gets overused in games. Interesting plot devices in it, though. Impressive for an indy who I think used rpg maker or something, especially because it's still around and was made in 2008 or something.

Megalomaniak

@some_lame_kid said: Anyone here have experience staying up too late? Any wise words for my now consistent habit of staying up until 9 am and deciding to not sleep at least 3 times a week?

Yes, don't forgo sleep altogether, it's a useful process to sleep on things, your brain actually does even more work while sleeping and it's a big part of problem solving.

As an adult you don't necessarily need 8 hours of sleep a day, I have operated perfectly fine on only 4 to 5 hour of sleep for multiple years in a row('12 to '15) with some occasional all-nighters where I'd just take a 1h nap during lunch, more like 30m nap really, eat, nap, back to work.

But some of the best solutions to more technical problems have always come to me in my sleep where once I wake up I'm not only refreshed but know exactly how to move forward with that thing I've been struggling with the past day.

some_lame_kid

@cybereality said: For text processing, it is better in while loops rather than for. Also, you could use RegEx to simplify it greatly.

I just learned RegEx was a thing. You're right about that, but what do you mean with the while loops? I know what they are but how would that be implemented that makes it better than what I have?

cybereality

Well with a for loop you are searching sequentially. If you use while, you can search the whole string (multiple times if you want). For example, you can count the number of "{" and "}" and make sure they are the same number. It also allows for things like nesting or more complex syntax. But at that point, just use RegEx.

Erich_L

@xyz Can we play your game yet? Did I miss it?

Kojack

As the old saying goes: "I had a problem so I used regular expressions. Now I have two problems"

DaveTheCoder

When I first learned how to use regular expressions, I tried to use them for everything. They're powerful, but they're not always the right solution.

cybereality

@Kojack said: As the old saying goes: "I had a problem so I used regular expressions. Now I have two problems"

I had a problem that I thought I would fix with multi-threading. Now 2 porblmse hvae I.

Erich_L

@cybereality said:

@Kojack said: As the old saying goes: "I had a problem so I used regular expressions. Now I have two problems"

I had a problem that I thought I would fix with multi-threading. Now 2 porblmse hvae I.

When I understand these kind of jokes first I feel pride, swiftly afterwards awashed with shame and loneliness.

cybereality

Here's my latest render in the Godot 4.0 alpha. Just testing out the real time global illumination. Looks pretty nice in still renders, though has some issues with moving the camera at a distance. But this was just a quick test, I will keep looking into it.

jbskaggs

Why does she get closer when I blink?

fire7side

So, I finished "To the Moon" and I consider it one of the best indie games I've played. Does anyone else have a candidate? We talked about best games, but I mean games with only a few developers on a low budget.

jbskaggs

@fire7side said: So, I finished "To the Moon" and I consider it one of the best indie games I've played. Does anyone else have a candidate? We talked about best games, but I mean games with only a few developers on a low budget.

I have already mentioned the Passage. I played to the Moon years back and it was very good. IN a different vein but FTL was a very good game.

cybereality

For me it was Summer of '58. I was made by this one Russian dude, Alexander Reshetnikov, though I do think he licensed most of the art and hired a few contractors. Done in Unreal, the graphics look great, and it had a good story and was pretty scary. Not very long, about 90 minutes, but I'm fine with that. It's on sale now (for $0.89), and worth playing.

https://emika-games.itch.io/summer-of-58

fire7side

I'm going to check out FTL, Summer of 58 is not my kind of thing. Looks like a good game. What I'm downloading now is Firewatch which might barely fit in that category, I think it was developed by 4 or 5 developers on Unity. On sale for 5 dollars on Steam.

jbskaggs

There as a Unity Game I love that was made by a very tiny team. They may have dropped it from further development but it is complete and that was StarDrive II. I always keep that game around and play it when I need distraction but dont want anything new.

I have heard good things about Firewatch

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