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This is funny in a way, but also, interpreting this shit sucks.

Over those witnessing your facial reactions while you try to play it cool changing PowerPoint slides in the boardroom.

Looking back at yesterday's results: Zelda > Mario was objectively a bigger upset than. Vivi > Mario > Ganondorf. I don't fault the occasional fan picks though and I know a lot of people liked seeing Vivi take a big win home, but Mario leeched by Ganondorf didn't shock me too much in that loss.

Don't mass with taxes.

I'm not sure that I understand the argument for REmake1. It looked good and was a great game for fans. What else am I missing there?

Glad to see Ninja Warrior got a shout-out. It's fun, distinct, and inspired other shows like it.

Windows with an .exe file is giving me a new error message, don't think Godot is even letting me try to export with MacOS

Gah...lots of troubleshooting today, some progress along the way.

Also played your game finally! That was neat, like a slight puzzle single-player take on a Mario Party mini-game. I like the recovery in the third level.

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BlueCrystalTear posted...

I so wish there was reason to actually vote for this

I'll help.

Nominate: children's game shows

I haven't been using the Discord much, but in light of this news it is nice to have access to it as a back-up.

Love this website, but it has hard times ahead.

The Price is Right
Jeopardy
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Fourth probably ought to be Wheel of Fortune, but instead I'm putting respect on the best childhood gameshow there was growing up:

Legends of the Hidden Temple

Supporting the topicality.

Minecraft is power and people will always be interested in being able to talk about Minecraft -- especially when Minecraft is everywhere.

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime was like Outkast's song Bombs Over Baghdad: it immediately felt like it came from the future, and it felt like that for years.

I'm giving up tonight...disappointed in the uploading issues, but feeling good about finding an idea around my lack of current programming capabilities:

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Still not working, but at least I've got a link that has stopped giving a near-instant error message.

https://hotmagic.itch.io/summoning-scrub

Just a gray rectangle on all browsers where I expect the game to be. =/

I've been fighting how to save and upload this for two or three hours. This sucks. I was hoping to upload on time. Still trying.

skulltrumpets posted...

even Mt. Rushmore needs rest sometimes

Nominate: characters known for sleeping

I have completely been stuck on collision detection. I think the deadline is 9:00 PM Eastern to be uploaded, right? If so I think I can still make a game in time, but it won't fit the theme anymore.

I'll check out your game this afternoon -- congrats on its completion ahead of pace dude!

LeonhartFour posted...

he definitely ain't winning a rematch with Tifa, I'll tell you that

100%

At your leisure dude.

Got to where I could beat Super Meat Boy in just under twenty-four minutes (any%) earlier this year. There's not a specific 'achievement" with that per say, but it's probably the best I've ever been at a game.

Taking a break -- collisions is not going anywhere successfully so far and I'm trying to work through that with scripts and connecting signals. Sometimes being stuck is its own progress, but I am vying for new progress tonight.

So close.

Stuck on collision detection. I've fallen into a lot of back and forth with ChatGPT -- it seems to know a lot about Godot but not the newest version. Sometimes it's offering code for me to adjust, and sometimes it's recommending me node-types that don't exist. It took a lot of troubleshooting to get any movement at all in my controls, and then I saw that it was moving both my player and also the snowman's head...so, that took awhile.

Tomorrow's goals are collision detection between my player, snowman's head, and snowman's body -- lots of confusion about Collision --> Layer and Mask, I can't seem to get them to work. I also need players not to run off the blue path I made. I gotta have the snowman's head be recognized as a key and the snowman's body recognized as a lock. I would sure like to get to a start screen, finish screen, music, and sound effects...but this is not a fast process for me, so I can't really count on all that. Decisions, decisions.

Also, Rebirth came out soon after the pandemic began. It wasn't Animal Crossing: New Horizons-caliber timing, but it was just two or three weeks later. That should probably be considered here -- Rebirth came out at a uniquely good time for game sales.

I just achieved movement.

Fuck yeah.

South

Starcraft's run gives me an idea since we've had some great divisions in our contests before.

Nominate: contest divisions.

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Art. The goal is to make it a game to get the snowman's head on the snowman's body. We shall call that a summon, given that it takes magic to find the right pair of jeans for a snowman to fit.

Part of Frog's upsetting there was that he just beat Liquid Snake in a nail-biter...not all of us were confident Liquid and Master Chief were that close together. Frog also nearly snuck a Noble Nine-break in the next round too thanks to the sprite round against Solid. Frog's run deserves a mention for being as close/fun/unpredictable as it was, and Frog > MC best represents that.

Most anytime Master Chief loses is a viable pick for this topic -- board-shock is important in this, but I think if you have the prediction-numbers overall that can be a form of qualification too. Casuals have eaten it a bunch of times so not just any casual-loss should get a nomination here, right, this isn't just the Mt. Rushmore of GTA-losses...but I think Frog's run fits the bill enough here.

Sub-Zero > Master Chief fits the bill too, though I felt like the board thought that was more possible at the time even when the prediction-picks didn't align with that.

Oh hey, YouTube sent me Zenva's/Humble Bundle's whole tutorial for Godot in case anybody else wants it:

https://youtu.be/NlzTmL_eB-U?si=bBrKsq-Hf0Ap7C18

_SecretSquirrel posted...

The Crono match was actually after the Cloud match.

Good call out, mixed up the order -- thanks.

Change:
Drop Mario > Cloud
Add Cloud > Link (2003)

Mario > Cloud (2002 -- Mario just barely won a classic match against Crono, so doubt was setting in against Cloud...and then he won in another classic match, likely only because Sunshine released that day)
StarCraft > Halo (2004 -- 16-seed began its crazy-dramatic run here)
Knuckles > Magus (2005 -- Gurus were humbled like never before and it was a fun moment of prediction-humility)
Jay Solano > Link (2006 -- B8's first major rally got a joke character from the N-Gage into a single special poll as a surprise against the repeating contest champion, and Jay officially won that shit by 136 votes)

Shout-outs to Frog > Master Chief, Master Hand > Kuja, several matches with L-Block (not a definitive match in my mind but the run was all surprising for different reasons), Majora's Mask > Pokemon GSC, and Zelda > Snake. Pokemon RBY's 2009-run was crazy too.

Ulti went on for years about LOL X-STATS after Mario > Samus. The phrase could have technically began earlier in the contest like Knuckles > Magus or something...but even if it did, the phrase 100% stuck because Ulti took being right on a high-profile debated match-turned-blowout as the opportunity to brag and annoy as hard as he absolutely could.

Nominate: Guru winners' nominations

Almost seven hours later, I get my power back...a mix of frustrated and relieved. Ultimately though, this jam is back on.

I see the theme is "Summoning" so I'm tossing my original idea for the moment and am chasing the theme. I made some amateur sprites and a one-screen map -- we'll deal with the harder stuff tomorrow, like how to connect nodes appropriately.

Still no power.

Pretty mad.

That's ok about your goal though, hope you hit it! I've got power outages happening off and on here...rabble rabble. Hopefully they don't impact me much here.

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Played on mobile and worked fine without the keyboard! I agree with some of your comments that the sound for messing up is scary-sounding. Still, neat and effective, and I liked the sound-changes with the colors.

Question: how do you turn the underwear off and on, and how do you know when the battery is low?

Is there a movie of A Christmas Carol with time travel? I've only seen theatrical productions of it, but those moments were presented more as dreams and flashbacks Scrooge is passively witnessing than actually travelling back and forth in time...wasn't sure how that's presented elsewhere.

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Specifically, LISA the Painful. That's a rough diamond of a game, but man when it hits it's like nothing else.

DLC is skippable though.

Back to the Future
Groundhog Day
Edge of Tomorrow
The Butterfly Effect

Nominate: movies with out-of-order storytelling

I think a lot of my challenge here is I feel like I need more done...not so much as a programmer trying to make a game, right, I'm new and expecting to get stuck a lot, but rather as someone still side-eying the Scene Bar trying to understand how much or what else I need in there. Understanding that I can save one node as one scene makes some of that make more sense now, so, baby steps.

I copied the JRPG Demo's image-files into my other file, testing that out...lo and behold, that was easy enough. Did some light edits to a slime's image -- MSPaint-caliber, aw yeah. I'm going to Script where I expect the code to be though and it's not appearing -- none of it. There's nothing really here for a runnable game so maybe that's why, but I thought it began with some sort of _start or _process code anyway.

I asked ChatGPT for Godot-code to a very simple game, and it gave me Pong's. I put it into Godot and it did nothing but highlight some code with brown highlighting. Bummer. I did practice reading the code and trying to understand code better when I see it.

Humble Bundle training just went over vectors. I don't remember much, but I keep passing their little quizzes at the end. Next it'll be going over how to make a simple coin-collecting game, where I am hoping some of this solidifies soon.

One of my other videos today switched from Godot to Game Builder Garage...might give that game a try again sometime down the line. Its nodols seem to be really similar to Godot's nodes here, but also the game's much more pre-set and limited early on because it's still a game. Their terms won't be the same so I'll hold off on it now anyway, but I can see some concepts that are similar.

Game jam tomorrow! How you feeling about it foolmo? Anybody else getting in? I think my modest goals will still be too big for this at the rate I'm going, but that's no excuse not to make a game. =)

I see that I'm not grasping that separation between nodes/scenes and scenes/projects well yet. Hmmm. I'll be Googling that tonight. Pointing out the scene-icon was helpful in the meanwhile!

ra2ah3roma2ma posted...

But one corner has a minor bend

This is how the next war is lost.

Would it be appropriate to divide this topic into games benefitting from the Expansion Pak and games that did not?

MarkS2222222222 posted...

Perfect Dark

I don't get all this AI hype when we've had Perfect Dark bots for decades

My vote and reason as well. It was new and plentiful with how they presented so many different behaviors for multiplayer bots. Its framerate really suffered sometimes and Rare's FPSs don't hold up perfectly well after a quarter-century, but it earned its need for an expansion pack and at its time was my favorite game so I'll favor it here.

Shout-outs to Conker and F-Zero X as well. Donkey Kong 64...yeah, probably worthy of consideration, in the same way Banjo-Tooie though -- they just have a lot.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I'm sure this I'm jinxing it, but this is probably the highest votals a poll has gotten with only a single option being voted for since this feature was added to the site.

Aaaaaand broken now, somewhere between 30-0 and 37-1.

I once saw a longer streak years ago. Someone made a poll asking if people more commonly said "unplug it" or "plug it out.". Total domination there, I think maybe reaching eighty votes or so before "plug it out" got a vote.

Voted yes, but really I don't remember the prediction I made back then...not sure that I would have known SMRPG was that big of a big deal back then.