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    Ah. Sorry I got carried away. It's a pretty fun read though, one of my top 50 insane posts for sure. But people seem to like it? Usually my autistic posts get downvoted to hell, not sure what's happening here.

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  • and then u use the same math to round coordinates and store a plant's UID inside a dictionary with the rounded X and Y as the key, so like, if you attack a selected ground tile, instead of testing collision against every tile, you can pick by the uid dictionary.at(rounded x & " " & rounded y) and if you stored the UID there properly in the code when you plant something then u can harvest it with good performance

  • should be like, selectionbox.x = round( character.x /32) *32 or something

  • Round positions but instead of rounding to numbers without decimals u divide by like,

    the size of your tiles first, and then you round the number, and then multiply it back by the size of your tile, and u get numbers that jump from tile to tile, like, any number you put into this math will pop out a tile number.

    Math is awesome

  • It’s pretty sad that’s even a question.

    Lmao you wouldn'T belive how many of them fell for gamergate rhetoric and are pro crypto

  • allright let's go contact me through my profile or whatever

  • I'll do it if you support queer rights

    Hey I'm starting to notice this weird pattern in the new examples that are coming out, emphasis for 3D ones, and it'S that a lot of them look good from a player'S perspective but from a developer's perspective, they're poor.

    The mechanics are wonky and dodgy at best but most of the time completely nonsensical, and they're like made by someone completely unhinged where instead of showing how to create a system or a mechanic that developers would want in a way that can be developed into a bigger or full game methodically, it'S just garbage dude.

    Like, look at this !!!

    Who would just slap in there a full complete level as a single image as their max texture size and then slap it in the engine and manually draw a tilemap on top of it for collision

    This is the stupidest worst design practices i have ever seen and they're all like this !!! Why are project examples garbage tier design like this ? completely insane !!! what are people supposed to learn from this lmaooo !!!

    Give people the most basic camera controller, so they can put it in their game!! Then incrementally more fancy ones that are like elegant, so people understand what's different and they grow their skill and make sure they'Re coded in an independent way that can be put in any game without relying on tier mechanics like this.

    The documentation inside the projects is just as bad as the design itself. It never explains how anything works or why it was done a certain way, it'S just "describe what the event does" AS IF YOU COULDN'T SEE THE EVENT THAT'S RIGHT BELOW IT ????? Who wrote these ??? Who's the target audience ??? How is anyone supposed to learn anything ??? It's just pretentious that makes the engine look good "look at the cool things you can make" but they'Re so bad im losing my mind

    Templates should be teaching proper methodology and how to create systems that you can implement into or build your games on, not a showcase of an unnamed uncredited probably underpaid artist who deserves mad rep who gets shafted by some idiot programmer trying to build game-jam grade dead end games and wasting that artist's talent so he can take credit in front of the engine's thousands of users and show them horrible coding practices lmaoooo my dude is built inside the engine and sending the community backwards years in literacy

    Like I know ashley is busy being the best most awesome mad lad I have ever seen releasing feature after feature but isn't there someone paying attention to these kind of things ? No quality control, or plan on how to educate and grow your community's literacy over time ? Where are the engine veterans, we could use some of their advice!! Is the developer retention really that bad ? Or is there no way for them to effectively share their knowledge because actually helping your community and getting something from it because people have to pay their rent like by advertising a Patreon gets you banned so the only thing they can do is try to get youtube monetisation but that also fails because the user base is too small to get any meaningful amount of ad revenue so like there'S literally nothing we can do as veterans but look at these new templates and be miserable. Are we supposed to use the asset store to sell literacy or something ???? lmao !!! Exploit the illiterates by selling them the idea of being a cool game developer and following their dreams let'S go !!! And then smash them to pieces with garbage templates that don't help them at all and hope that they stay because of the sunk cost fallacy dfsgufgfdgjsd

    Sorry that was a bit of a rant jesus christ I have to be more careful with my caffeine intake

  • yes have the host kick them if they try to join, and also when you request the game list you can add events to not display those that are "full" so people dont join them

  • dang.

    godspeed

    edit: I'm banned and can'T post anymore, contact me through my profile, or I guess we could chat through me editing this post ?

    basically you use time and like, check the difference in time between two positions and the buttons the players were pressing and you can calculate where they are going to be in the future, or save inputs and the time they occured so you can move time backwards to see if you punched them when you sent a "punch you" request to see if it actually hit them, like there's tons of things you can do !!!

  • idk man if people really care about your game that much then just let them do it, don't try so hard to stop them

  • turn it into a blob or base64, something u can undo and read easely in construct but doesnt look like plain text to players, its garbled, or even just bitshift it

  • store tiles as x-y positions in a dictionary, use key.count as progression bar

  • bites you

    bites you

    bites you

    lets out a howl

    time stops

    glows in red energy that makes my clothes and air whip like there are strong winds but my energy is the source

    my left eye glows menacingly and i grin and grow 3 meters tall

    tears you apart in a cool combo attack too quickly for anyone to follow my movements (with my awesome claws painted sparkly white but with blue flakies like a jawbreaker)

    I stop in a cool pose and my aura dissipates and time resumes and u explode and paint the walls and ceilings red

    i swing both my arm down in a cool X fashion and the blood soaking my nails leaves marks on the floor and they are pristine again

    I whisper under my breath "not this again, we were supposed to work through this together and learn something" as i turn around and leave and the camera swings around to show what'S left of you in the middle of the screen and my back as i dramatically walk away

    I toss this over my shoulder on whatever'S left of you without looking back

    drive.google.com/file/d/1Yfbx0QHtl1MOxUkfg_kuN04Zuzi--rmN/view