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Nerdzmasterz

I can't decide on a favorite genre.

Am I wrong to say not to worry about criticism if you're a beginner? I mean, if someone claims there's a bug, that's one thing. If you're trying to change things because your first user mentions something, however? Why not just check and see if others say the same thing?

Not that I'm saying you are a beginner. If you're not, then you probably already have an idea of what's up.

Audiobellum

@Tomcat said: This question is easy to answer — The Sims 2 and 3. When The Sims 4 came out, I realized that I wouldn't see in this game what I wanted and decided that I should do it myself.

I really liked the first Sims game when I played it. Still, my favorite Sims game was a spin-off title called Urbz: Sims In the City for Gameboy Advance. I didn't get to play the gamecube version of the game but, I suspect that it's a different game entirely. The GBA version of Urbz had more in common with action rpgs such as Oblivion and Fallout, than it had anything in common with the other Sims game on PC or Console. However, just like all the Sims games, Urbz didn't focus on violent gameplay. I really wished the GBA version of the game became more influential. The only game that seem to took direct influence from Urbz that know of in recent memory, would have been Metro Sim Hustle. I haven’t placed Metro Sim Hustle but, it’s very telling that I seem to be the only person who knew that it took direct influence from Urbz. I haven’t heard a lot of good things about Metro Sim Hustle but, I know that the game has good ideas. Here is a video review of Sims Bustin Out & Urbz for the GBA, if you’re interesting in watching it:

Audiobellum

@fire7side said: I think it's important to get some negative feedback in order to improve. It is hard to filter it and decide if it should be used or not, even if it was done well. If you are new, you might take it too seriously. For instance one person might think the game is too hard, but it's just one person and they might not be very adept in that genre, so you could make the game worse.

Yeah, I agree with this to some extend. I personally won't want to be one of those gamedevs, who refuses to take criticism from non-developers even though they make games for people who are mostly non-developers. Still, I think many consumers need to be more articulate with their criticism and even their praise. Sometimes I get the impression that people don't know how to properly articulate their likes and dislikes. When the fans of COD or Battlefield keep talking about how they love those games because of their "realism", they don't really know what they're talking about. Both of these FPS franchises might have realistic themes but, they aren't a realistic simulation of warfare. The most realistic FPS franchises would be ARMA and games in the flashpoint series. However, those games aren't as popular as COD or Battlefield. Why? Because COD or Battlefield is just more fun to play. I'm bringing this up, because I knew of a CoD fan who'd dismiss Unreal Tournament on the basis that it's not "realistic" like COD. To my mind, CoD has more in common with Perfect Dark, DOOM and Unreal Tournament than it would ever have anything in common with ARMA. Now they're other examples I could bring up, where players use confusing language. However, these are the ones fresh in my mind.

Megalomaniak

@fire7side said: I think it's important to get some negative feedback in order to improve. It is hard to filter it and decide if it should be used or not, even if it was done well.

I would rather say that it's important to get genuinely constructive criticism, whether it is positive or negative is irrelevant to improvement. If however criticism is not constructive then it bares no purpose other than perhaps either complimenting or insulting someone over their work.

@Tomcat said: There is often a great lack of criticism. In English-speaking communities it is not very common to criticize. I'm not sure if that's really true or not, but I can certainly say that when I've offered constructive feedback it's more often than not gotten a positive response - at least as far as I could tell(I'm certainly not a mind reader tho).

cybereality

People in general don't want to hear the truth. I've been developing for over 25 years and have a lot of experience. But I have found on this forum and elsewhere, that most people do not want to listen to me. I will tell someone the fix for a bug they are having, they won't even try it. I'll try to explain how the controls don't work, or how the camera should be coded some other way, and people aren't interested. I give up. I'll make my game how I like, people can do whatever they want. There is no point in arguing.

BenHerbst

Godot and Emacs or Godot and Vim?

cybereality

I know we were talking about laptops, I'm travelling light. Just a ChromeOS tablet and my SteamDeck. I just got the Deck a few days ago and didn't have time to set it all up, or I just would have brought that. I'm in Miami for a week, so this is my setup.

fire7side

@cybereality said: People in general don't want to hear the truth. I've been developing for over 25 years and have a lot of experience. But I have found on this forum and elsewhere, that most people do not want to listen to me. I will tell someone the fix for a bug they are having, they won't even try it. I'll try to explain how the controls don't work, or how the camera should be coded some other way, and people aren't interested. I give up. I'll make my game how I like, people can do whatever they want. There is no point in arguing.

That's true for a percentage of people, but some people are grateful for the help and quite willing to try advice. It's just easy to get turned off by the ones that aren't and get a negative attitude. A lot of beginners are glad to have something working and aren't ready to make changes, also. They might think about it and make changes later on when they understand more.

Nerdzmasterz

Fixing bugs could even be the main thing people like about our games if we do it, and what separates us from the AAA companies.

some_lame_kid

I don't have a favorite genre. My favorite games are all wildly different genres, but I noticed my favorites tend to be cartoony, campy or weird in some way. It doesn't have to be LSD Dream Emulator type of weird, but Metal Gear Solid is a good example of the minimum. Slay The Spire is a good example from a game genre that to hold my interest, hinges almost entirely on being weird but coherent and not so full of itself.

duane

@cybereality said: Yeah, I don't know. I got featured on GamesFromScratch for Myra, and a bunch of the YouTube comments were saying how it wasn't photorealistic or that it looked like PS2 graphics.

These are the barbs that spur you on to greatness.

duane

@BenHerbst said: Godot and Emacs or Godot and Vim?

Old-school flame war? The answer is vim, of course. ;)

DaveTheCoder

I use Emacs as my primary text editor. For Godot scripts, I use the internal editor.

DaveTheCoder

Is anyone here an expert on Sanskrit?

cybereality

I've been using Vim for years... mostly because I can't figure out how to quit the app.

Kojack

Megalomaniak

@BenHerbst said: Godot and Emacs or Godot and Vim?

Godot and Visual Studio Code. To each their own. I actually mostly use the built in editor and I like it.

Megalomaniak

@cybereality said: I know we were talking about laptops, I'm travelling light. Just a ChromeOS tablet and my SteamDeck. I just got the Deck a few days ago and didn't have time to set it all up, or I just would have brought that. I'm in Miami for a week, so this is my setup.

I wonder if it would be possible to remote into the steamdeck from the Chromebook and use godot that way? :)

Nerdzmasterz

Is there a way to let the players change the designated keys for specific inputs, like W, A, S, and D keys?

DaveTheCoder

Is there a way to let the players change the designated keys for specific inputs, like W, A, S, and D keys?

I think the InputMap class lets you configure that at runtime: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_inputmap.html#

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