This has always been true. If you are downloading an exe off the internet, it can be malicious. I am amazed by the streamers and Youtubers that seem willing to run anything. When I gamejam, I only write games that work in the browser and I only test/rate games that do the same. Unless you have a quarantine machine purpose built for running unknown code, it is really the only option.
I recommend starting with basic YouTube tutorials, then do a game jam. The great thing about game jams is that it is zero pressure. The only goal is to try to make something playable. It doesn’t have to be grand in scale, you don’t have to write perfect code to make change and growth easier. Just slap something together in 48/72 hours or 2 weeks, depending on the jam, then move on.
No kidding. A nice ambiance.
It took me months of using Godot to realize that was there. It is really well buried. I came over from Unity and was distressed at the lack of feedback of the game while debugging, then I realized the “Remote” and “Local” tabs. It isn’t quite as good as getting visual feedback in the debug window, but it at least lets me watch values and reset positions of objects.
That’s an improvement for sure, but in case you all didn’t know, when you are testing your game, you can switch back to the editor and change the tab on the scene node browser to see the live scene and edit it.
PID tuning is an art.
I really should be able to use fan speed as an input. “Block intake to pickup”.
As a LightBurn user and license holder, this is annoying, but I could see this being a good thing in the long run. Right now, there is very little opensource alternative to LightBurn. As of today, there is a much stronger incentive to make it happen. I’m hopeful this spurs on a modern tool in the open source community that works as an alternative. What LightBurn might have done is save them selves some support overhead and created competition. We’ll see how that works out for them.
Since I was personally called out here, Windows 10 was my last home version of Windows, but it was earlier days of 10. For work, however, I manage about 1700 Windows workstations and servers, so I know all those problems still. To be fair, I’ve been running Linux in some form since before Ubuntu existed. I think it was Debian in 2001 or 2002 that was my first Linux desktop.
For sure, that’s what it is designed for. A proper remote desktop system would need to be able to support low bandwidth links and gracefully drop frames if latency is high or bandwidth is low.
VNC might have seen improvements over the years, but last time tried it, it didn’t handle high resolution/detail well at all. RDP can stream practically any media in close to real time, as to where VNC really broke down if you tried to change too much of the screen at once. Ideally, there’d probably be a new open screen sharing standard that used modern encoding and decoding to allow for high bandwidth connections smoothly. Moonlight gets close, but isn’t really designed as an RDP/VNC replacement.
Some people are really tied to Unity. If you dig into the comments of the YouTube video, you can find people trying to claim Godot isn’t a real engine, or is otherwise not good to use. Some people have turned game dev into a team sport in their mind.
Of course it’s a matter of personal preference, but I’m exactly the opposite. I’m ending a line by hitting the enter key, why should I have to go through the trouble of hitting the ; key for every single line, when more often than not I’m not breaking single lines up to multi-line. On those rarer occasions I can use \ key. It probably helps that I was “raised” on a white space sensitive language. But to me, it makes way more sense to let the whitespace mean the same thing to the computer that it does to me.
All of that said, I’m still wrapping my if statements in () though. I don’t care if is not required. Just looks better to me.