Notices by Leonard Ritter (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Last February i tried to get a bit into Godot and did some of the basic tutorials, but then had difficulty trying to imagine how my procedural systems would fit in there and how i would generate code efficiently, and I went back to working on my compiler.

But compiler work is frustrating because not only is the game waiting on me in the meantime, I'm also creating software that may in the end very well attempt to compete with Godot, and that means work duplication and alienating users.

So I'm thinking about how to bridge the two worlds.

I know that Godot exposes a C API, so once I get the new compiler operational, I can likely write and control subsystems from there.

I could do a project in GDScript/Nodes natively and just cover the parts that I can do for now, bootstrapping a setup that we can build upon.

And then later we can rewrite select systems, with the benefit of hindsight, in the custom compiler and add more shared libs to the project.

It's just that there is a lot of GPU stuff. For example, the very first thing to write is a terrain engine. I have a prototype in Scopes, so I know how it would work, but I have no idea how easy it is, let alone whether it is at all possible to setup a GPU compute processing pipeline in Godot. It surely can't be as bad as controlling wgpu_native in C++ though.

Ah well. Let's bury the perfectionist for a moment and just hack _something_ together. I'll give myself a week.

(from https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/introduction/godot_design_philosophy.html)

"the godot editor is a godot game."

this indicates that the editor is or can be (partially) self-hosting, which is a strongly desired property.

the idea that every scene acts as a macro that can be instantiated (non-destructively extended) is also important and fits natural properties of NOIR that i have discovered independently.

@foone who been eatin chocolate

@foone warioware but as captcha

@GyrosGeier under his eyes

on the noble numbat, mypaint now just crashes on the very first stroke taken. sad for me, since i need it for my software engineering napkin drawings. about dialog makes it seem like it hasn't been updated in 4 years.

@foone
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@tagesschau

the "miniaudio" C header library has over 90k lines of code.

@foone *hides under a rock in unspeakable shame*

@foone i saw the mistake as soon as i had written it, then edited the toot, then deleted and reposted it altogether since edits are super laggy

i could have sworn your pronouns used to be different and there was no tasty marshmallow flag before but i am informed now 😓

if you're having trolley problems i feel bad for you son, i got 99 dilemmas but a tram ain't one

ability to switch mastodon convo to debater LLM to keep trolls occupied while freeing your hands for more productive talks #VPofIdeas

quoth the raven: "meet hanako at embers"

me: sorry but i can't sign this NDA

them: why not?

me: i signed an NDA that prevents me from signing NDAs.

them: wow. with who?

me: i'm not allowed to say