oh shit, I missed this one! is there still space?

I convinced myself to get drag-to-create working...

ignore the trash UI theming & misplaced node (pretty sure that's a scroll offset calc issue but I'm out of time and filed a ticket 😭)

I still hate the GraphEdit & family API though

the ergonomics are ... rough but it doesn't feel too bad for a couple of days work with .. what is certainly an API for the underlying #godot graph/node tooling

my schedule is changing with new things happening in 2025 so coworking/office hours on hiatus until I find a new viable time!

didn't feel a pillar of your argument so much as one of the few tools we have to determine authenticity. that's fine.

latching into that / similar lines as an attack on the piece feels an intentionally bad faith engagement and I hope you don't let it get too you too much.

you've got a lot of comments how it's fine or content farms are bad as well. both of those are true

I'll throw in that on my watch I was cognizant you might be hitting content farms with splash damage but in no way did it parse as shade at writers with bad english. the "nobody writes like this"

/1

god i hope it goes better for y'all than it did here

But this is because I loved the totality of the exp.

Not a big game design brain or anything but it doesn't seem too surprising that confirmation bias has a deep well to draw from: when you love the game trope is immersive (ever followed a trail in ikea?) and when you hate it it's patronizing

2/2

yuuuup

this is kind of like my whirlwind romance with @tool. Starts out wildly cool and powerful and simple to extend the editor abilities and then you stumble over a creepy ass basement full of footguns

ah yea -- my solution was specific for my problem so that the "working" version doesn't randomly break when narrative checks it out

the broader question def 🤷 but custom scene tooling sounds like a viable approach. just tagging you in as a follow up bc you'd make the tool suggestion that felt right

circling back to this (cc @rokojori.bsky.social) I don't think it's the tool script (cf bsky.app/profile/roko...) because transferring a working build to a 2nd PC resulted in a fucked up build that I couldn't resolve.

I think the path out is drop type safety & use NodePath instead of typed @export

indiegame in bio

haha, mood

I have a pretty strong python background so I settled right in and we were hesitant to rule out web exports / didn't want to introduce polyglot environment for potential newer devs (volunteer deal so we're pretty inclusive).

It's working out but still sharp edges are sharp