Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
You should check out the Godot editor 101 tour, made with GDTour:
github.com/gdquest-demo...
As well as other courses by GDQuest!
school.gdquest.com
I like to point out to vim users, and other advocates of working faster, that I don't need to type more because development is about building a model of a complex system in your head. Writing it is the last 5%.
With LLMs, you haven’t done the thinking OR the writing, you haven’t done your job...
titsay 𓆏
Yuri
Simon Roth
I'd love to post more gamedev updates, but not a lot of visible work right now. And half of the last couple of months I've been dedicating to work on GDTour for @gdquest.bsky.social.
So perhaps I should talk a little bit about that?
Ace Combat 7 is so strange. I've played for a little over an hour, and it's been what feels like 15 minutes of gameplay, 40 minutes of obtuse "briefings" and 20 minutes of some actually interesting cinematics that propose a much more engaging story than what happens in the actual game.
My work has been purely technical one. First, I created a new library for accessing the Godot editor nodes.
github.com/GDQuest/godo...
This replaces the old tree wrangling approach with a more substantial, robust implementation. And you can use it in your plugins too!
Second, I've been updating the GDTour codebase, reworking old code, fixing issues, and implementing design tweaks.
It's unlikely that you'd notice these changes in practice, but code health is also important. This project started long ago, and as Godot matured, the codebase needed updates as well.
Yuri
Yuri
For example, Godot editor nowadays reliably uses the TranslationServer and its domains system allows for seamless and conflict-less plugin integration.
And many other things like that. I also worked on better sizing logic, for the tour UI to fit the screen in as many situations as possible.
Yuri
Yuri
Yuri
In case you don't know, GDTour is really cool!
It's a Godot editor plugin that enables creation of onboarding guides and interactive tutorials for the
editor itself.
github.com/gdquest/gdtour
GDQuest has free and paid courses that include these tours, like this one:
github.com/gdquest-demo...
Yuri
Karl Bode
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
