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I’m fully aware that my pattern over the last several years of trying to create a game is very cyclical: I get all jazzed up, try to make something in THREE<\/a>, hit a roadblock, punt and decide to use Godot<\/a>, then give up because I find some nit-picky thing about Godot that isn’t just perfect for me.\u00a0 Well no more!\u00a0 I have hit step 4 in which I decide to use Godot, but this time I’m sticking with it.\u00a0 My issue always seems to be the load time for the engine.\u00a0 I much prefer THREE because it loads basically instantaneously, but THREE is a graphics library, not a game engine, so if I want all the very nice game engine features that Godot has, I simply have to accept the fact that loading the wasm file is going to take a minute.\u00a0 At least when a user visits the site for the first time.\u00a0 After that the file will be cached and the game should load in just a few seconds.<\/p>\n

I don’t have an exported version of the game yet but I’ve been able to get some very basic functionality up and running very quickly in Godot.\u00a0 I have a test scene just to show some nice assets loaded in, and a terrain scene with some very poorly drawn grass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The character controller is shockingly easy to set up and use now with the right plugin, but I did have to modify the input to work with the keyboard the way I want it to.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to stay focused and work on very small, very accomplishable goals for now and hopefully that will add up to something worth having eventually.\u00a0 I’ll try to get a new version out this weekend.\u00a0 I would like to have a way for the player to transition between the test scene and the terrain scene, so if I can figure that out I will put it out as a v0.00.001 and that will be a decent starting point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m fully aware that my pattern over the last several years of trying to create a game is very cyclical: I get all jazzed up, try to make something in THREE, hit a roadblock, punt and decide to use Godot, then give up because I find some nit-picky thing about Godot that isn’t just perfect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}