#drew learns coding

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lovely thing about making a platformer is i have to find out whether this is actually impossible or if im just shit at parkour

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coding is being annnoyyyyyinnggggg

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code is fixed! he works now! :]

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excited because this is big for me. so timeline of events:

1: I follow a tutorial because im new to godot. when i get to enemy configuration, it doesn't work. i redo it. it still doesnt work and i cant figure out why

2: i use a different tutorial. this tutorial is 2yrs old, and uses an older version of the game engine. i get to the enemy configuration: it still doesn't work! it completely freezes up my game.

3: I, by myself, create some code to try and figure out how to do it myself since neither older or newer tutorial works.

4: THE CODE WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no errors raised, no freezing the game. fucking works. hell yes.

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okay okay. so! in Learning How to Code i have set 3 things i wanna do. the first of which i just came up with like 30 minutes ago

1: smaller game, probably a 2d platformer. lets me learn some more code while doing something original but not too hard. it’ll help me see how much i can do in a certain time period as well

2: fnaf fangame. will definitely help with learning a lot of code because of the ideas i have for it + i get experience in 2d and 3d godot with this. also it’s cool and i think child me would flip his shit if he heard about this. specifically this would help because in this i’m gonna experiment with code for minigames i wanna do in Number 3 (below)

3: Oc game that i’ve had in mind for a whiiile now. I have plot ideas and such for two games and i’ve been wanting to do it. However! i do not have the skill set for it right now. so, 1 and 2 come first. This’ll be the Big Game w/ lots of story + playtime + etc. I’ve heard from several people that you shouldn’t start with your biggest/best idea first, so this comes last. Plus that gives me time to figure out details for it.

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breakdown of the past week!

I've started the game. like actually holy hell i've started something instead of just making concept art/sprites

created 2 whole levels

coded player behavior/movement

coded collectables

coded enemy behavior movement (figured out by myself. because neither tutorial worked.)

coded trap/pitfall behavior

coded a main menu w/ placeholder icons

coded a pause menu

coded level switching

figured out how to add walls with no collision (Hidden walls, basically)

bonus: figured out how to make sprite sheets myself instead of exporting each frame of the gif!

and. apparently i discovered a glitch where the lung spawns sideways. no clue why that happened it never has before!

i do still need music... but that means i gotta make a track for it, which i am working on. i'm also going to polish these levels; add some extra text to the levels to act more tutorial-like, as well as sound effects for enemy deaths, and smoother transitions between levels. But besides that, i dont think i did too bad for my first time ever!

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things have Fucked Up. however i remembered to back up a file beforehand so i have it restored to the pre-fucked up version thankfully <3

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level switching achieved!